When it applies

5 dates carry an obligation in this collection, 3 of them still ahead. Dates are taken from each obligation's own applicability column rather than restated here, so this page and the provision pages cannot disagree. Where a date is not self-explanatory — a transitional provision, a deferred application, a later amendment moving it — the reason is recorded against it.

Still to come

1. 2 December 2026

   • Article 5 — Prohibited AI practices

     The prohibitions on non-consensual intimate imagery and child sexual abuse material inserted by the Digital Omnibus, with the qualifying provisions that narrow them. New prohibitions were given lead time; nothing that already existed moved.

   • Article 50 — Transparency obligations for providers and deployers of certain AI systems

     Article 50(2) only, for providers of generative systems placed on the market before 2 August 2026. A four-month transitional inserted by the Digital Omnibus. Systems placed on the market after that date owed the marking duty immediately.

2. 2 December 2027

   • Article 10 — Data and data governance

     Annex III standalone high-risk systems. Moved from 2 August 2026 by the Digital Omnibus — a sixteen-month extension driven by undesignated national authorities and the absence of harmonised standards, not by any relaxation of the Section 2 requirements themselves.

   • Article 11 — Technical documentation

     Annex III standalone high-risk systems. Moved from 2 August 2026 by the Digital Omnibus — a sixteen-month extension driven by undesignated national authorities and the absence of harmonised standards, not by any relaxation of the Section 2 requirements themselves.

   • Article 12 — Record-keeping

     Annex III standalone high-risk systems. Moved from 2 August 2026 by the Digital Omnibus — a sixteen-month extension driven by undesignated national authorities and the absence of harmonised standards, not by any relaxation of the Section 2 requirements themselves.

   • Article 13 — Transparency and provision of information to deployers

     Annex III standalone high-risk systems. Moved from 2 August 2026 by the Digital Omnibus — a sixteen-month extension driven by undesignated national authorities and the absence of harmonised standards, not by any relaxation of the Section 2 requirements themselves.

   • Article 14 — Human oversight

     Annex III standalone high-risk systems. Moved from 2 August 2026 by the Digital Omnibus — a sixteen-month extension driven by undesignated national authorities and the absence of harmonised standards, not by any relaxation of the Section 2 requirements themselves.

   • Article 15 — Accuracy, robustness and cybersecurity

     Annex III standalone high-risk systems. Moved from 2 August 2026 by the Digital Omnibus — a sixteen-month extension driven by undesignated national authorities and the absence of harmonised standards, not by any relaxation of the Section 2 requirements themselves.

   • Article 26 — Obligations of deployers of high-risk AI systems

     Annex III standalone high-risk systems. Moved from 2 August 2026 by the Digital Omnibus — a sixteen-month extension driven by undesignated national authorities and the absence of harmonised standards, not by any relaxation of the Section 2 requirements themselves.

   • Article 27 — Fundamental rights impact assessment for high-risk AI systems

     Annex III standalone high-risk systems. Moved from 2 August 2026 by the Digital Omnibus — a sixteen-month extension driven by undesignated national authorities and the absence of harmonised standards, not by any relaxation of the Section 2 requirements themselves.

   • Article 6 — Classification rules for high-risk AI systems

     Annex III standalone high-risk systems. Moved from 2 August 2026 by the Digital Omnibus — a sixteen-month extension driven by undesignated national authorities and the absence of harmonised standards, not by any relaxation of the Section 2 requirements themselves.

   • Article 73 — Reporting of serious incidents

     When Annex III standalone systems become subject to the Chapter III requirements, and therefore when the population whose incidents this article reaches begins to exist in volume.

   • Article 9 — Risk management system

     Annex III standalone high-risk systems. Moved from 2 August 2026 by the Digital Omnibus — a sixteen-month extension driven by undesignated national authorities and the absence of harmonised standards, not by any relaxation of the Section 2 requirements themselves.

3. 2 August 2028

   • Article 10 — Data and data governance

     Annex I embedded high-risk systems — medical devices, machinery, vehicles — where AI Act requirements fold into the existing sectoral conformity assessment. Moved from 2 August 2027.

   • Article 11 — Technical documentation

     Annex I embedded high-risk systems — medical devices, machinery, vehicles — where AI Act requirements fold into the existing sectoral conformity assessment. Moved from 2 August 2027.

   • Article 12 — Record-keeping

     Annex I embedded high-risk systems — medical devices, machinery, vehicles — where AI Act requirements fold into the existing sectoral conformity assessment. Moved from 2 August 2027.

   • Article 13 — Transparency and provision of information to deployers

     Annex I embedded high-risk systems — medical devices, machinery, vehicles — where AI Act requirements fold into the existing sectoral conformity assessment. Moved from 2 August 2027.

   • Article 14 — Human oversight

     Annex I embedded high-risk systems — medical devices, machinery, vehicles — where AI Act requirements fold into the existing sectoral conformity assessment. Moved from 2 August 2027.

   • Article 15 — Accuracy, robustness and cybersecurity

     Annex I embedded high-risk systems — medical devices, machinery, vehicles — where AI Act requirements fold into the existing sectoral conformity assessment. Moved from 2 August 2027.

   • Article 26 — Obligations of deployers of high-risk AI systems

     Annex I embedded high-risk systems — medical devices, machinery, vehicles — where AI Act requirements fold into the existing sectoral conformity assessment. Moved from 2 August 2027.

   • Article 6 — Classification rules for high-risk AI systems

     Annex I embedded high-risk systems — medical devices, machinery, vehicles — where AI Act requirements fold into the existing sectoral conformity assessment. Moved from 2 August 2027.

   • Article 73 — Reporting of serious incidents

     The same for Annex I embedded systems, under Article 113 third paragraph point (c) as replaced by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744.

   • Article 9 — Risk management system

     Annex I embedded high-risk systems — medical devices, machinery, vehicles — where AI Act requirements fold into the existing sectoral conformity assessment. Moved from 2 August 2027.

Already in force

1. 2 February 2025

   • Article 5 — Prohibited AI practices

     Article 5 as originally enacted, together with the AI literacy duty. The prohibitions have been in force since then — though the Union penalty architecture in Chapter XII only followed on 2 August 2025.

2. 2 August 2026

   • Article 50 — Transparency obligations for providers and deployers of certain AI systems

     The general application date. Chapter IV was not deferred by the Digital Omnibus, which moved only Chapter III Sections 1 to 3 — so these duties are in force while the high-risk regime is not.

   • Article 72 — Post-market monitoring by providers and post-market monitoring plan for high-risk AI systems

     The general application date. Chapter IX is not among the exceptions in Article 113, and the Digital Omnibus deferred only Chapter III Sections 1 to 3 — so this provision was not moved with the high-risk requirements it monitors.

   • Article 73 — Reporting of serious incidents

     General application. Article 73 sits in Chapter IX, which Article 113 does not except, and the Digital Omnibus deferred only Chapter III Sections 1 to 3.