One amending act has touched the AI Act since it entered into force: Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, the Digital Omnibus on AI, in force 27 July 2026. It moved four application dates and nothing else. Here is the complete record, article by article, with a machine-readable feed.
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 entered into force on 1 August 2024. Since then one act has amended it: Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, the Digital Omnibus on AI, in force since 27 July 2026.
It moved four application dates and did nothing else. It created no new obligation, removed none, changed the scope of neither Annex I nor Annex III, and introduced no exemption for any sector or company size. Read as a general reprieve — as it widely has been — it produces exactly the wrong compliance plan, because the Regulation's broadest obligation, the Article 50 transparency duties, kept its date and has been enforceable since 2 August 2026.
This page is the complete record. Each of the 113 article pages on this site carries the same status at the top, and /api/changes.json publishes it for machines.
How to read the dates
Three separate things are commonly conflated, so they are worth separating before the tables:
- Entry into force — when the act became law. For the AI Act, 1 August 2024. For the omnibus, 27 July 2026.
- Application — when a set of obligations starts to bind. The AI Act applies in phases under Article 113, which is why the same regulation has dates in 2025, 2026, 2027 and 2028.
- Transitional arrangements — a grace period for systems already on the market when an obligation starts. Only one is live: machine-readable marking, to 2 December 2026.
An article is deferred only in respect of the systems whose date moved. Articles 8 to 15, for instance, set the requirements for high-risk systems generally: they bite for standalone Annex III systems on 2 December 2027 and for Annex I products on 2 August 2028. Neither date suspends the article for any other purpose.
Amending act
| Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 amending Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 | Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 |
| Official Journal | |
| In force |
Deferred four application dates and rewrote Article 4 in place. Created no new obligation, removed none, and introduced no sector or size exemption.
Every change, in force order
— Machine-readable marking of outputs, for generative AI systems already placed on the EU market before 2 August 2026
| Was | |
| Now | 2026-12-02 |
| Basis | Art. 50(2), Art. 111 |
| Why | Retrofitting provenance marking into a deployed generative system is an engineering change, not a policy one. |
Generative systems already on the market before 2 August 2026 have until 2 December 2026 to satisfy the Art. 50(2) marking duty. Systems placed on the market on or after 2 August 2026 have no grace period. The other three Art. 50 duties have no transitional period at all.
— Member State obligation to have a national AI regulatory sandbox operational
| Was | |
| Now | 2027-08-02 |
| Basis | Art. 57–63 |
| Why | Most Member States had neither designated the authority nor funded the sandbox by mid-2026. |
Each Member State must have at least one AI regulatory sandbox operational by 2 August 2027 rather than 2 August 2026.
Art. 57 · Art. 58 · Art. 59 · Art. 60 · Art. 61 · Art. 62 · Art. 63
— Standalone high-risk AI systems listed in Annex III
| Was | |
| Now | 2027-12-02 |
| Basis | Art. 6(2), Annex III |
| Why | Harmonised standards under Art. 40 were not finalised, notified bodies were still being designated, and national competent authorities lacked operational capacity. |
The obligations attaching to standalone high-risk AI systems — recruitment scoring, credit assessment, biometrics, education, essential services and the rest of Annex III — apply from 2 December 2027 instead of 2 August 2026.
Art. 6 · Art. 8 · Art. 9 · Art. 10 · Art. 11 · Art. 12 · Art. 13 · Art. 14 · Art. 15 · Art. 16 · Art. 17 · Art. 18 · Art. 19 · Art. 20 · Art. 21 · Art. 22 · Art. 23 · Art. 24 · Art. 25 · Art. 26 · Art. 27 · Art. 43 · Art. 47 · Art. 48 · Art. 49 · Art. 71 · Art. 72 · Art. 73
— High-risk AI embedded as a safety component of products covered by Annex I product-safety legislation
| Was | |
| Now | 2028-08-02 |
| Basis | Art. 6(1), Annex I |
| Why | Alignment with the sectoral conformity-assessment cycles those products already run on. |
Where the AI is a safety component of a regulated product — medical devices, machinery, civil aviation, vehicles, lifts, toys, radio equipment — the high-risk obligations apply from 2 August 2028. Article 113(c) had already given Article 6(1) its own later date of 2 August 2027, a year behind Annex III; the omnibus moved it a further twelve months.
Art. 6 · Art. 8 · Art. 9 · Art. 10 · Art. 11 · Art. 12 · Art. 13 · Art. 14 · Art. 15 · Art. 16 · Art. 17 · Art. 18 · Art. 19 · Art. 20 · Art. 21 · Art. 22 · Art. 23 · Art. 24 · Art. 25 · Art. 26 · Art. 27 · Art. 43 · Art. 47 · Art. 48 · Art. 49 · Art. 71 · Art. 72 · Art. 73
AI literacy — the text of Article 4, not its date
| Basis | Art. 4 |
| Why | A duty of result with no defined level and no certification scheme was unenforceable in practice; a duty of means is auditable against the measures actually taken. |
Article 4 was rewritten in place. It used to require providers and deployers to ensure, to their best extent, a sufficient level of AI literacy — a duty of result. It now requires them to take measures to support the development of AI literacy, and states expressly that it "does not require providers or deployers to guarantee any specific level of AI literacy of any individual" — a duty of means. The date did not move: Article 4 has applied since 2 February 2025.
What was NOT changed
| Provision | Basis | Applies since |
|---|---|---|
| Prohibited practices | Art. 5 | |
| GPAI model obligations | Chapter V, Art. 51–56 | |
| Transparency obligations | Art. 50 | |
| Commission enforcement over GPAI providers | Art. 88–94, Art. 101 |
Machine-readable feed
The same record, for every one of the 113 articles, including the ones nothing happened to: /api/changes.json
Official AI Act Compliance Deadline Calendar
Updated · Sources: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 and the 2026 Digital Omnibus on AI.
| Obligation | Applies to | Original date | New date | Status | Countdown | Legal basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prohibited Practices (Art. 5) | All providers and deployers | active | — | AI Act Art. 5 | ||
| GPAI Rules (Chapter 5) | GPAI model providers | active | — | AI Act Art. 51-56 | ||
| Commission Enforcement Powers over GPAI | GPAI model providers | active | — | AI Act Art. 88-94, 101 | ||
| Transparency Obligations (Art. 50) | Providers and deployers of chatbots, generative, emotion recognition systems | active | — | AI Act Art. 50 | ||
| New Art. 5 Prohibition (CSAM / non-consensual intimate imagery) | Providers and deployers of generative AI systems | active | — | AI Omnibus 2026 Art. 5 | ||
| AI-Generated Content Marking (pre-existing systems) | Providers of generative AI systems on the market before 2 Aug 2026 | active | — | AI Act Art. 50(2) — transitional | ||
| Regulatory Sandboxes | National competent authorities | deferred | — | AI Omnibus 2026 Art. 57 | ||
| High-risk AI — Annex III (standalone) | Providers of standalone Annex III systems | deferred | — | AI Omnibus 2026 Art. 6(2) | ||
| High-risk AI — Annex I (embedded) | AI embedded in Annex I regulated products | deferred | — | AI Omnibus 2026 Art. 6(1) |
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Yes, once. Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 — the Digital Omnibus on AI — was published in the Official Journal on 24 July 2026 and entered into force on 27 July 2026. It deferred four application dates: standalone Annex III high-risk systems to 2 December 2027, Annex I embedded high-risk AI to 2 August 2028, the national regulatory sandbox obligation to 2 August 2027, and the machine-readable marking grace period for pre-existing generative systems to 2 December 2026.
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744. The substantive text of the obligations is unchanged — the omnibus created no new obligation, removed none, and introduced no sector or company-size exemption. What changed is when four sets of obligations start to apply.
No. Prohibited practices under Article 5 have applied since 2 February 2025, the GPAI model obligations in Chapter V since 2 August 2025, and the Article 50 transparency duties since 2 August 2026. All three kept their dates. The one omnibus concession touching Article 50 is a transitional period to 2 December 2026, and it covers only the machine-readable marking duty in Article 50(2), only for generative systems already on the EU market before 2 August 2026.
The obligations those articles impose on Annex III systems move with the annex — that is what a deferred application date means. Article 49 registration, Article 43 conformity assessment, Article 26 deployer duties and the Chapter III requirements in Articles 8 to 15 all bite for standalone Annex III systems on 2 December 2027. They are not repealed or suspended for anything else: the same articles apply to Annex I products from 2 August 2028, and articles outside the high-risk regime were untouched.
Four. Two are widely reported — Annex III to 2 December 2027 and Annex I to 2 August 2028. The other two catch compliance programmes out: the Member State sandbox obligation moved from 2 August 2026 to 2 August 2027, and the content-marking grace period for systems already on the market runs to 2 December 2026.
Yes. /api/changes.json publishes the amending acts, every change with its before and after date, and an entry for each of the 113 articles stating explicitly whether it changed — including the articles nothing happened to. It is free to use with attribution.
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