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

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Verified against the official source 8 Oct 2026 · reviewed by Bhaskar Bhatt (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review or legal advice)
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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

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

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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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