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A living timeline of the deadlines, official guidance, standards and enforcement that shape the EU AI Act — curated and kept current by the Conformly team.
Obligations for high-risk AI embedded in regulated products (medical devices, machinery, toys, vehicles) become enforceable — moved from 2 Aug 2027 by the Digital Omnibus.
Source: EU AI Act, Annex I (as amended by the Digital Omnibus, 2026)
Full obligations for Annex III high-risk systems — risk management, data governance, technical documentation, logging, human oversight, accuracy/robustness/cybersecurity — become enforceable. Moved from 2 Aug 2026 by the 2026 Digital Omnibus; this is a fixed date with no standards-availability escape hatch.
Source: EU AI Act, Annex III (as amended by the Digital Omnibus, 2026)
Systems already on the market must have machine-readable marking of synthetic content in place.
Source: EU AI Act, Art. 50
Chatbots must disclose they are AI, and AI-generated or manipulated content (incl. deepfakes) must be marked in a machine-readable way.
Source: EU AI Act, Art. 50
The Omnibus extends SME simplifications to companies with up to 750 employees and €150M turnover, keeps simplified registration for Art. 6(3) self-assessed systems, waters down the Art. 4 AI-literacy duty, and adds a new prohibition on AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery and CSAM (safeguards due by 2 Dec 2026).
Source: Digital Omnibus on AI, final text (June 2026)
Parliament adopted the Digital Omnibus on 16 June and the Council gave its final green light on 29 June; the act was signed on 8 July 2026 and enters into force on publication in the Official Journal, ahead of the 2 Aug 2026 milestone. Conformly's deadlines and classifications already reflect the amended dates.
Source: Council of the EU, 29 June 2026; final act signed 8 July 2026
Trilogue agreement to postpone high-risk obligations: Annex III moves to 2 Dec 2027 and Annex I (product-safety) to 2 Aug 2028 — as fixed dates, without the standards-availability trigger from the Commission's original proposal. Art. 50 transparency stays on 2 Aug 2026.
Source: Council of the EU, press release 7 May 2026
The voluntary Code of Practice helps GPAI providers demonstrate compliance ahead of harmonised standards.
Source: European Commission
General-purpose AI model providers must maintain technical documentation, a training-data summary, and a copyright policy. Rules for GPAI with systemic risk also begin.
Source: EU AI Act, Art. 53–55
Providers and deployers must ensure staff dealing with AI systems have a sufficient level of AI literacy (Art. 4).
Source: EU AI Act, Art. 4
Article 5 prohibited AI practices (social scoring, untargeted scraping for facial recognition, workplace/education emotion recognition, certain biometric categorisation) are banned across the EU.
Source: EU AI Act, Art. 5
Conformly turns these developments into a per-system action plan — with owners, evidence and in-app alerts, so nothing slips.