The EU's Digital Omnibus on AI entered into force on 27 July 2026, finalising amendments to the AI Act. The headline change: compliance deadlines for many high-risk AI systems are deferred into 2027 and 2028.
Transparency obligations and prohibited-practice rules continue on their original timelines. Organisations deploying AI in employment and worker-management contexts should treat the extension as planning time — not a pause on competence and oversight.
Every version of this timeline has kept the same underlying requirement: organisations need people who can design, evidence and exercise human oversight of high-risk AI.