Category: Regulations
AI regulations EU organisations need to follow, including enforcement updates, guidance, and compliance deadlines
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The Digital Omnibus delayed the AI Act, so many roadmaps now say 2027. Article 50 was not part of that delay. AI Act transparency duties apply from 2 August 2026, they reach chatbots and synthetic content regardless of risk tier, and most of the work lands on deployers.
A special EU expert panel wants to flip the burden of proof for online child safety. Providers would have to show a service is safe by design before children under 13 could use it, and the same design features the Commission just cited against Meta are in scope.
A single US state has set a new bar for frontier AI safety, with recurring independent audits of the largest developers. European organisations are not bound by it. But the evidence it forces into the open changes what governance teams can now ask of their AI vendors.
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.
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.
The Commission's draft guidelines of 19 May 2026 set worked examples across all eight Annex III categories. The Annex III classification memo now has an external benchmark. Six fields make the call defensible before the 23 June consultation closes.