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EU AI Act

EU-AIA-2024 · EU · binding regulation

Source: https://policywindow.org/wiki/eu-ai-act

Generated 2026-09-03T16:59:23 UTC

Summary

Risk-based framework. Prohibited practices (Art. 5) effective 2 February 2025; general-purpose AI obligations (Arts. 51-55) 2 August 2025; high-risk system obligations (Title III) 2 August 2026. Staggered 6/12/24-month application timeline from 1 August 2024 entry-into-force per Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 Art. 113. CANONICAL-FACTS CORRECTION (2026-07-17): adoptedDate was "2024-07-12" — WRONG. That is the Official Journal PUBLICATION date, not the adoption date. The Regulation was adopted/signed on 13 June 2024: its formal title reads "Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 ... of 13 June 2024", its signature block reads "Done at Brussels, 13 June 2024" (R. Metsola for the Parliament, M. Michel for the Council), and EUR-Lex records 13/06/2024 as both "Date of document" and "Date of signature". The error was CERTIFIED by a canonical-facts pin whose own rationale read "(Official Journal publication)" — i.e. the pin named the very event that is not adoption. It also broke the catalog's own convention: every other row dates adoption to the signature event (cf. EU-PLD-2024, adopted 2024-10-23, published 2024-11-18). effectiveDate (2024-08-01) is UNAFFECTED and verified correct: Art. 113 sets entry into force at the twentieth day following OJ publication (12 Jul + 20 = 1 Aug 2024), so the 12 July date remains load-bearing there — it was simply recorded in the wrong field. Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32024R1689

At a glance

Adopted: 2024-06-13
Effective: 2024-08-01
Status: in force
Primary source: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689
Source URL: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32024R1689

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BibTeX

@misc{policywindow-eu-ai-act,
  title  = {EU AI Act},
  author = {Policy Window},
  year   = {2024},
  howpublished = {Regulation (EU) 2024/1689},
  url    = {https://policywindow.org/wiki/eu-ai-act},
  note   = {Primary source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32024R1689}
}