EU Digital Omnibus on AI enters into force, moving high-risk AI Act duties to December 2027 and August 2028
Concerns EU AI Act
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In brief
EU Digital Omnibus on AI enters into force, moving high-risk AI Act duties to December 2027 and August 2028. Recorded for the European Union on 27 July 2026. It concerns the EU AI Act. Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, published in the Official Journal on 24 July 2026, entered into force on 27 July 2026.
- Date
- 27 July 2026
- Jurisdiction
- European Union
- Instrument
- EU AI Act
- Impact
- Urgent
- Status afterwards
- Partially applicable
- Official source
- Official Journal of the European Union
What changed?
Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, published in the Official Journal on 24 July 2026, entered into force on 27 July 2026. It amends Article 113 of the AI Act so that the Chapter III high-risk obligations apply from 2 December 2027 for stand-alone Annex III systems and from 2 August 2028 for AI embedded in Annex I products, adds two Article 5 prohibitions applying from 2 December 2026, and leaves the 2 August 2026 general application and Article 50 transparency dates in place. Recorded from concordant secondary reporting; confirm against the Official Journal text.
What does it mean in practice?
Re-plan high-risk conformity work to the December 2027 and August 2028 dates; transparency duties under Article 50 still applied from 2 August 2026.
Official source
Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 (Digital Omnibus on AI)Official Journal of the European Union · 24 Jul 2026
Cite this record
AIPolicyTracker (2026). “EU Digital Omnibus on AI enters into force, moving high-risk AI Act duties to December 2027 and August 2028” [AIPT-CHG-0142, record version 1, verified 8 October 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-CHG-0142 (accessed 12 November 2026). Data licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Cite the official text alongside it: Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 (Digital Omnibus on AI), Official Journal of the European Union, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2026/1744/oj.
BibTeX
@misc{aipolicytracker2026_eudigitalomnibusonaiente,
author = {{AIPolicyTracker}},
title = {{EU Digital Omnibus on AI enters into force, moving high-risk AI Act duties to December 2027 and August 2028}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2026-07-27-eu-digital-omnibus-on-ai-in-force-high-risk-dates-move}},
url = {https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2026-07-27-eu-digital-omnibus-on-ai-in-force-high-risk-dates-move},
urldate = {2026-11-12},
note = {Data licensed CC BY 4.0. Accessed 12 November 2026}
}
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