# EU Digital Omnibus on AI enters into force, moving high-risk AI Act duties to December 2027 and August 2028

- **Record type**: Change log entry
- **Occurred on**: 2026-07-27
- **Jurisdiction**: European Union
- **Instrument**: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — Artificial Intelligence Act
- **Impact level**: Urgent
- **Status after the change**: Partially applicable

## 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 it means 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.

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2026-07-27-eu-digital-omnibus-on-ai-in-force-high-risk-dates-move
- **Official source**: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2026/1744/oj
- **Source document**: Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 (Digital Omnibus on AI)
- **Published by**: Official Journal of the European Union
- **Review status**: pending review
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: never confirmed against the official source
- **Retrieved**: 2026-09-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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