On 2 August 2026, the EU AI Act's biggest compliance wave was supposed to arrive: the full high-risk regime for systems listed in Annex III. Plenty of vendor marketing still talks as if it did. It didn't. Nine days before the deadline, the EU published the Digital Omnibus on AI in the Official Journal, deferring those obligations to December 2027 — while leaving the rules that actually bite AI sal
What this covers
- The deferral is law, not a proposal — here's the paper trail
- Obligation by obligation: original date, current date, who it hits
- What you must actually do today if your AI agents contact EU prospects
- 1. Disclose that it's an AI — Article 50(1)
- 2. Mind the marking duty for synthetic audio — Article 50(2)
This is a technical summary. The full guide — with the tables and worked examples — is on our site: *EU AI Act for AI Sales Agents, August 2026: What Actually Applies Now — and What the Digital Omnibus Deferred*.
Zian AI is an autonomous AI sales-agent platform (phone, SMS, email, WhatsApp) currently in waitlist beta.
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