AI Act obligations tracker
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 phases in between 2025 and 2030. This page tracks what applies today and what is next — every milestone links to the actual provisions in the law reader. Also available as an LLM context bundle.
- August 1, 2024in application
Entry into force
The AI Act enters into force twenty days after publication in the Official Journal. No obligations apply yet — the phase-in clock starts.
- February 2, 2025in application
Prohibitions and AI literacy apply
Chapters I–II apply: the prohibited AI practices (social scoring, untargeted facial-image scraping, emotion recognition at work and school, manipulative techniques and more) are banned outright, and every provider and deployer must ensure sufficient AI literacy in their staff.
- August 2, 2025in application
GPAI, governance and penalties apply
Obligations for general-purpose AI model providers (transparency, copyright policy, training-data summaries; extra duties for systemic-risk models), the governance structure (AI Office, AI Board, national authorities) and the penalty regime become applicable. GPAI models already on the market get until 2 August 2027.
- August 2, 2026in application
General application — high-risk (Annex III) and transparency
The bulk of the Act applies: the full high-risk regime for Annex III systems (employment, education, credit, law enforcement, essential services…) — risk management, data governance, technical documentation, human oversight, conformity assessment, registration — plus the transparency duties for chatbots, deepfakes and synthetic content, and mandatory national regulatory sandboxes.
- August 2, 2027next
High-risk in regulated products; legacy GPAI deadline
Art. 6(1) applies: AI that is a safety component of products under EU harmonisation legislation (Annex I — machinery, medical devices, vehicles…) becomes high-risk. GPAI models placed on the market before 2 August 2025 must now comply.
- December 31, 2030
Legacy large-scale EU IT systems
AI components of the large-scale EU information systems listed in Annex X (SIS, VIS, Eurodac…) placed on the market before 2 August 2027 must be brought into compliance.
Latest AI Act developments
- News The Digital Omnibus is going on summer break. Your rights are not.
- News In gesprek over de AI-verordening
- News AI Omnibus deal: EU lawmakers should reject a rollback of AI safeguards
- Enforcement Italian DPA: AgID's automatic transfer of PEC addresses to INAD index unlawful
- News AI Omnibus: Reject the proposals to undermine transparency in the AI Act
- News A call to EU legislators: protect rights and reject the call to delete transparency safeguard in AI Act
- News EDPB and EDPS support streamlining AI Act implementation but call for stronger safeguards to protect fundamental rights
- News Europe is undermining its own digital rights from within.
- News Europe is dismantling its digital rights from within
- News Why the "Digital Omnibus" threatens privacy regulations (GDPR and ePrivacy).
- News Why the Digital Omnibus puts GDPR and ePrivacy at risk
- News The AI Act isn’t enough: closing the dangerous loopholes that enable rights violations
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