E-Courts · 27 Jul 2026
EU defers the AI Act's high-risk duties to December 2027
The Digital Omnibus on AI came into force on 27 July 2026 and moved the AI Act's high-risk obligations back: standalone Annex III systems now face them from 2 December 2027, and AI embedded in regulated products under Annex I from 2 August 2028. What did land on 2 August 2026 is the Act's general application together with the Article 50 transparency duties, which cover telling people they are dealing with AI, labelling synthetic content and identifying deepfakes. Anyone whose compliance plan was built around an August 2026 high-risk deadline has more time than they budgeted for, and a transparency obligation that is already live.
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