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The EU delays the AI Act’s high-risk rules
Europe gave firms 16 more months on high-risk AI and banned AI nudifier tools
Key facts
- Date
- 29 Jun 2026
- Era
- The agentic age
- Interest
- Laws & rulings
- Threads
- Safety & governance
- Who
- Council of the EU, European Parliament
- Stand-alone high-risk
- 2 Aug 2026 moved to 2 Dec 2027
- Embedded high-risk
- Moved to 2 Aug 2028
- Path
- Provisional deal 7 May (per Sidley); Parliament vote 16 Jun; Council adoption 29 Jun
EU ministers gave final approval to the AI part of the ‘Omnibus VII’ simplification package, a set of changes meant to make EU rules simpler, weeks before obligations for high-risk AI systems were due on 2 August 2026. Stand-alone high-risk systems now have until 2 December 2027, and AI built into regulated products until 2 August 2028. The same law bans AI that generates non-consensual sexual images of real people or child sexual abuse material, from December 2026.
Sources
- Council of the EU, Artificial Intelligence: Council gives final green light to simplify and streamline rules, 2026-06-29
- Sidley Austin (Data Matters), EU Lawmakers Reach Provisional Agreement to Delay Key EU AI Act Obligations, 2026-06-22