EU Digital Omnibus on AI enters into force, moving high-risk AI Act duties to December 2027 and August 2028
Concerns EU AI Act
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”. https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2026-07-27-eu-digital-omnibus-on-ai-in-force-high-risk-dates-move (accessed 27 September 2026). Data licensed CC BY 4.0.
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.
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