EU AI Act update: Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 was published in the Official Journal on 24 July 2026 and entered into force on 27 July 2026. Check the consolidated AI Act and route-specific application dates before relying on older timelines. Consolidated AI Act EU AI Act update: Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 is in force; check route-specific application dates. Consolidated AI Act
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Read the right EU AI Act article for your next task

These are EU AI Compass educational articles, not official EU guidance, legal advice, or a compliance guarantee. Start with current law, then use the article groups to classify systems, build records, check Article 50 notices, and track changes.

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Regulatory update

The Digital Omnibus is now part of the current legal baseline.

Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 is in force and moves many high-risk AI duties to later route-specific dates. Use the consolidated AI Act as the current baseline, and keep inventory work, role checks, vendor evidence, Article 50 review and evidence records moving.

Digital Omnibus cluster

Use the cluster in the right order.

Start with the router, then open the guide that matches the applicable statutory route: standards readiness, product-integrated AI, or SME and small-mid-cap measures.

TOOL · 3 MIN

Omnibus Deadline Router

Identify the provision-specific 2026, 2027, or 2028 statutory application date for one AI system.

 GUIDE · 5 MIN

Standards Readiness After the Omnibus

Build evidence structures that can absorb harmonised standards and common specifications when they arrive.

 GUIDE · 5 MIN

Product-Integrated AI Systems and 2028

Connect AI Act planning with the product safety file, supplier evidence, and sectoral-law overlap.

 GUIDE · 5 MIN

Small Mid-Cap Relief After the Omnibus

Treat SME and small-mid-cap relief as a planning issue, not an exemption from records.

Digital Omnibus 2026 guides

Recent Digital Omnibus articles

Prohibited-practice watch

EU AI Act nudification ban

Review image, avatar, video, editing, and vendor workflows for non-consensual intimate-content risk.

 Evidence planning

EU AI Act delay does not mean pause

Keep inventory, vendor checks, Article 50 review, oversight records, AI literacy, and decision logs moving.

Google AI governance

New Google I/O 2026 governance article

Use this article when Google AI news has created a practical question: who owns the AI feature, what data does it touch, and what evidence should the organisation keep before the feature spreads across daily work?

Google I/O 2026 AI governance ownership map for inventory, evidence, disclosure, and EU AI Act readiness
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Google AI

Google I/O 2026 made one AI governance problem harder to ignore: AI features need owners

This is not a launch recap. It routes Google AI users to the practical records that matter first: inventory, owner, data, output audience, disclosure review, literacy evidence, vendor file, and deployer evidence route.
Use the readiness guideChoose the right Google AI tool first. Start the inventory templateRecord feature, owner, purpose, data, output, and evidence. Check Article 50 signalsReview chatbot, synthetic-content, public text, and disclosure triggers.

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Step 1

Know what already applies

Article 5, Article 4, adopted dates, and the baseline to plan against.
READ · 4 MIN
Step 2

Check the system type

Annex III, provider/deployer role, scope questions, and framework links.
TEMPLATE · 3 MIN
Step 3

Find evidence articles

Inventory, vendor records, oversight logs, Article 50 notices, and incident paths.
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Step 4

Track changes separately

Digital Omnibus updates, national enforcement, weekly notes, and incident signals.

Current-law baseline

Start with rules that already matter

Before debating possible changes, clear the basics: prohibited practices, AI literacy, adopted dates, and the current-law readiness baseline.

Original Article 5 prohibitions and new 2026 provisions explained with examples
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ARTICLE 5

Original Article 5 Prohibitions and New 2026 Provisions

Start here for AI uses that may need to stop or be redesigned before a readiness plan. The article explains each prohibition with practical examples.
Article 4 AI literacy requirements for SMEs under the EU AI Act
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ARTICLE 4

Article 4 AI literacy: what to record now

Use this when your team needs training records and a role-based literacy plan for people who use or oversee AI.
EU AI Act current baseline and provision-specific 2026, 2027, and 2028 application-date routes
READ · 4 MIN
TIMELINE

EU AI Act timeline: current statutory dates

Read this before changing deadlines, policy wording, or board updates. Keep each provision's application date distinct.
EU AI Act timeline showing the current baseline and future statutory application dates
READ · 4 MIN
CURRENT LAW

EU AI Act current application dates: what SMEs should prepare

Use this after the timeline article when you need a practical plan for inventory, classification, evidence owners, and review.

Classification and governance

Check scope and risk before building controls

Weak classification creates weak evidence. These articles help you separate Annex III risk, governance controls, and sandbox decisions.

Annex III high-risk AI systems checklist and common misclassification traps
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ANNEX III

High-risk AI systems: Annex III checklist

Read this before assuming a system is low-risk, high-risk, or outside scope. Focus on use case, impact, and evidence.
EU AI Act ISO 42001 and NIST AI RMF crosswalk
ARTICLE · 4 MIN
FRAMEWORKS

EU AI Act vs ISO 42001 vs NIST AI RMF

Use this when your controls already reference ISO/IEC 42001 or NIST AI RMF and you need to map them to EU AI Act evidence.
AI regulatory sandboxes and the Article 57 deadline of 2 August 2027
ARTICLE · 4 MIN
SANDBOXES

AI regulatory sandboxes under the current-law baseline

Read this if you are considering supervised testing, public-sector pilots, or innovation routes before wider use.

Evidence and transparency

Turn reading into records

Once a system is in scope, ask what you can show. Use these guides when an article points to an inventory, vendor, Article 50, AI agent, or audit gap.

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Evidence file Deployer evidence file template Build a local evidence file for inventory, role and risk rationale, vendor evidence, oversight, logs, Article 50, impact review, incidents, and audit index.
READ · 11 MIN
Audit questions Audit and regulator questions Question-led hub for inventory, classification, vendor evidence, Article 50, impact review, incidents, and dates.
READ · 14 MIN
Inventory AI system inventory fields Field-level guide for system records, owners, vendors, Article 50 triggers, impact review, incidents, and dates.
TEMPLATE · 10 MIN
Evidence EU AI Act evidence checklist Checklist for classification, vendor files, oversight logs, disclosure records, and incident workflow.
RESOURCE · 10 MIN
Vendor evidence Vendor due diligence checklist Questions to ask providers and vendors before deploying high-risk or possibly high-risk AI systems.
5 MIN
Vendor request Vendor evidence request builder Local tool for supplier questions, document requests, internal follow-ups, and red-flag checks.
TEMPLATE · 10 MIN
Article 50 Article 50 implementation pack Route transparency scenarios, content marking checks, notice templates, and evidence records.
READ · 13 MIN
Disclosure Article 50 disclosure checklist Checklist for AI interaction notices, deepfake disclosure, biometric notices, and public-interest AI-generated text.
GUIDE · 8 MIN
Article 50 evidence Article 50 evidence file for AI-generated content labelling Record provider marking dependency, deployer labelling decision, deepfake disclosure, public-interest text review, reviewer approval, and retained evidence.
3 MIN
AI agents AI agent evidence checklist Evidence guide for agent workflows, autonomy boundaries, tool permissions, oversight, logs, and incidents.
2 MIN
Evidence plan 30-day evidence planner A 30-day workflow for inventory, vendor evidence, Article 50 review, oversight, logs, and gap owners.
TEMPLATE · 12 MIN
Deadline EU AI Act application-date tracker Tracker for Article 26, Article 50, Annex III triage, inventory, logs, and evidence planning.
RESOURCE · 9 MIN
Comparison EU AI Act vs Colorado AI Act: deployer duties Comparison for teams managing EU and Colorado AI governance evidence together.
Article 50 Code versus Article 50 law under the EU AI Act
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ARTICLE 50

Article 50 code vs law

Start here if your system interacts with people, generates synthetic content, supports biometric categorisation, or creates public-facing AI text.
Article 50 Code of Practice for AI content marking
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CONTENT MARKING

Article 50 Code of Practice: scope and limits

Use this after the law-versus-code article to separate Article 50 duties from voluntary implementation support.

Regulatory monitoring

Use current law, and keep proposals clearly separate

Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 is part of the current legal baseline. Keep later proposals, draft guidance, enforcement signals, weekly notes and public incidents in a separately labelled monitoring track.

Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 and current EU AI Act planning
TEMPLATE · 3 MIN
ENACTED LAW

Digital Omnibus: enacted changes and current application dates

Use Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 and the consolidated AI Act to separate entry into force from each provision-specific application date.
EU AI Act national enforcement tracker with official designations and readiness signals
ARTICLE · 4 MIN
ENFORCEMENT

EU AI Act National Enforcement Tracker

Use this to monitor national authority designations, enacted powers, and readiness signals without mixing them into one confidence level.
EU AI Act Weekly Intel for week ending March 16 2026
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WEEKLY INTEL

EU AI Act Weekly Intel: Week Ending March 16, 2026

Read this for a short update on Council movement, ECB credit scoring commentary, and healthcare AI consultation activity.
EU AI Act Weekly Intel for week ending March 8 2026
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WEEKLY INTEL

EU AI Act Weekly Intel: Week Ending 8 March, 2026

Read this for earlier monitoring across confirmed changes, proposals, soft law, and founder actions.
Grok deepfake crisis and EU AI regulation analysis
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CASE ANALYSIS

Grok deepfake crisis and EU AI regulation

Use this as incident context for deepfake risk, public pressure, and why transparency records matter.

Frequently Asked Questions

Turn reading into a readiness check

Use the free tools when you need a role decision, classification route, deployer check, impact-review prompt, Article 50 review, or evidence starter.

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