EU AI Act Digital Omnibus Formally Adopted — New Compliance Timetable Now in Force
The EU Digital Omnibus on AI completed its final legislative step with Council adoption on approximately June 29, 2026, following European Parliament approval on June 16 and the provisional political agreement of May 7. The key dates are now settled: high-risk AI systems under standalone Annex III (including legal research tools, HR systems, and credit-scoring systems used in legal contexts) move
BY FRONTIER DESK · JULY 1, 2026 · 1 MIN READ
The EU Digital Omnibus on AI completed its final legislative step with Council adoption on approximately June 29, 2026, following European Parliament approval on June 16 and the provisional political agreement of May 7. The key dates are now settled: high-risk AI systems under standalone Annex III (including legal research tools, HR systems, and credit-scoring systems used in legal contexts) move from August 2, 2026 to December 2, 2027; high-risk systems embedded in regulated products under Annex I move to August 2, 2028. Critically, Article 50 transparency obligations — requiring disclosure that content is AI-generated, AI interaction labelling, and synthetic content marking — remain in force from August 2, 2026, with generative AI systems already on market having until December 2, 2026. For law firms deploying AI tools for client-facing or document-generation work, Article 50 compliance is now the active August deadline, not the full high-risk framework. The deferral reduces immediate conformity assessment urgency but the compliance build for December 2027 is unchanged in scope.