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EU AI Act
The EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) is the European Union's law on artificial intelligence, regulating AI systems by risk level and setting separate rules for general-purpose AI models. It entered into force on August 1, 2024 and applies in stages; several deadlines were moved by the "AI Omnibus" amendment that entered into force on July 27, 2026.
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Legal referenceRegulation (EU) 2024/1689
Entry into forceAugust 1, 2024
Prohibitions (1–8) and AI literacyApply from February 2, 2025
Governance and GPAI obligationsApply from August 2, 2025
General application, enforcement, transparency rulesFrom August 2, 2026 ("with some exceptions")
Prohibition 9 (AI nudification apps, AI-generated CSAM)December 2026 (the Commission page gives no day; see L1 for the Omnibus text)
High-risk, Annex III use casesExtended to December 2, 2027
High-risk in regulated products (Annex I)Extended to August 2, 2028
Systemic-risk compute presumption> 10^25 FLOPs of training compute (Art. 51(2)); the Commission may amend the threshold by delegated act (Art. 51(3))
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AUG 2024Entry into force