European Union
EU AI Act
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — the world's first comprehensive, binding AI legal framework. Establishes a risk-based classification system covering all AI systems placed on the EU market or affecting EU persons. As amended by the Digital Omnibus (Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, in force 27 July 2026), which extended high-risk deadlines and added new prohibited practices.
Date d'entrée en vigueur: August 1, 2024
- Deterministic risk-based classification across 4 levels
- Amended by Digital Omnibus (Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, in force 27 July 2026) — Annex III high-risk compliance 2 Dec 2027; Annex I product-embedded 2 Aug 2028; new Art. 5.1.i/j prohibitions (nudifier AI, AI-generated CSAM) effective 2 Dec 2026
- Annex III lists 8 high-risk sectors including biometrics, employment, critical infrastructure
- GPAI obligations with systemic risk threshold at 10^25 FLOPs
- Mandatory technical documentation, human oversight, transparency
- Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment (Article 27) for deployers
- EU AI Office as central supervisory authority
- EU-wide public database for high-risk AI systems (Article 71)
- AI literacy obligations for all operators (Article 4)