Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What you need to know It is a political agreement, not yet law. On 7 May 2026 the Council and Parliament agreed provisionally on the AI omnibus (the Digital Omnibus). Formal adoption still has to follow, so the dates below are the intended timeline rather than settled obligations. High-risk rules are postponed. Obligations for high-risk systems — biometrics, critical infrastructure, education, employment, migration, asylum and border control — move to 2 December 2027, a delay from the original August 2026 date. Transparency lands sooner. Transparency rules take effect August 2026, and the grace period for generative-AI synthetic-content labelling runs to 2 December 2026. That is the nearer-term work. It reaches you wherever you are. The Act applies extraterritorially. An Indian or UK team…
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