Category: Compliance
AI compliance practices, documentation requirements, risk classification, and audit readiness for organisations
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Brussels softened the AI literacy duty in the Digital Omnibus, from ensuring a sufficient level to supporting its development. But it was not delayed, it has applied since February 2025, enforcement begins this August, and the EU's skills agenda is turning literacy from a compliance checkbox into a competitiveness lever.
The Council adopted the Digital Omnibus on 29 June, pushing high-risk AI Act obligations to 2027 and 2028. But the transparency and literacy duties that bite in 2026 did not move, and two new bans arrive sooner than the relief.
A joint Five Eyes statement reframes AI cyber risk as an immediate leadership responsibility on a months-not-years horizon. The defence is unglamorous basic hygiene plus AI-aware threat modelling. We translate it into the EU frame of NIS2, DORA and the AI Act, and the questions a board should ask now.
Canada has tabled Bill C-36, a GDPR-style privacy overhaul. For organisations already under European rules it reads as convergence but works as divergence: a second regulator, second thresholds and a second set of rights to map across adequacy, automated decisions and transfers.
CADA defines four assurance levels for cloud and AI sovereignty, up to EU ownership at Level 3 and full supply-chain control at Level 4. The proposal is not law yet, but the levels already work as a scoring frame. Five procurement and due diligence changes to make this quarter.
In one week the US chose voluntary, standards-referenced AI oversight while the EU adopted CADA's graded sovereignty test. A deployer operating across both cannot run on a single mental model. Here is one control map, with two triggers per control, that answers the European and American regimes at once.