What the Omnibus actually moved
Political agreement on the AI Omnibus landed 7 May 2026. The text entered into force on 27 July 2026. The Commission’s AI Act page (last update 3 August 2026) is clear on the new high-risk calendar:
| Stack | What moved | New date |
|---|---|---|
| Annex III high-risk use cases (biometrics, education, employment, migration, justice, etc.) | Yes. Delayed by the Omnibus. | 2 December 2027 |
| High-risk systems inside regulated products (Annex I / product-safety stack) | Yes. Delayed by the Omnibus. | 2 August 2028 |
| Article 50 transparency (chatbots, deepfakes, machine-readable marks) | No. Not in the delay. | 2 August 2026. Already live. |
If your compliance thread is “Omnibus bought us a year,” that thread is about high-risk Annex III. It is not a pause on chatbot disclosure.
What the Commission said on 31 July
The Commission’s press release of 31 July 2026 states that from 2 August 2026 the AI Office and national authorities begin enforcing the AI Act, and that on the same date the new transparency rules start to apply.
Under those rules:
- Chatbots and other interactive AI systems must tell users they are dealing with AI, not a human.
- Deepfakes (AI-edited or AI-generated images, video, or audio) must be labelled.
- AI-generated or altered content must carry machine-readable marks.
That is Article 50 in plain language. It is not Annex III. It is not the product-safety stack. It does not wait for 2027.
What to do this week
- Ship a first-interaction notice in the product if it is not already live. Commission example: “You are interacting with an AI system.”
- Check voice, email, and Slack surfaces, not just the web widget.
- Do not open a high-risk workstream because of this page. That calendar is December 2027 / August 2028.
- Inventory generative outputs. Open a 2 December 2026 marking ticket only if the system was already on the market before 2 August.
Need the exact line and a print-and-tick inventory? That is the $29 checklist. Need someone to kill the rumour against your specific product surfaces? That is the $149 Money Brief. The public sample is this exact question.
Buy the operator pack
The $29 Article 50 Ship Checklist is the inventory, notice line, deepfake labels, and 2 December ticket. The $149 Money Brief is the sourced memo if you think you are in the “obvious” exception, you trained a model, or a national authority has written.
Sources
Fetched 28 August 2026 (PT). No invented quotes.
- European Commission, “Commission starts enforcing AI Act rules and new transparency requirements on 2 August,” press release, 31 July 2026. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
- European Commission, AI Act policy page, last update 3 August 2026 (Omnibus timeline: Annex III high-risk from 2 December 2027; Annex I product systems from 2 August 2028; Omnibus in force 27 July 2026). digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/regulatory-framework-ai
- European Commission, Article 50 FAQ, last update 24 July 2026. Transparency obligations under Article 50 of the AI Act
- European Commission, “Commission publishes guidelines on transparency obligations,” 20 July 2026. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu