Policy & Regulation
EU AI Act transparency obligations apply today, high-risk obligations deferred to December 2027
On 2 August 2026, EU AI Act transparency obligations under Article 50 became applicable, requiring emotion-recognition and biometric-categorisation systems to notify natural persons exposed to them. The high-risk obligation suite under Annex III, including conformity assessment and human oversight, was deferred to 2 December 2027 by the Digital Omnibus (Regulation EU 2026/1744) adopted by the Council on 29 June and in force since 27 July 2026. Most compliance framings are conflating the two.