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EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689): cited answers and gap reviews

An AI compliance assistant for AI providers, deployers and governance leads · updated 2026-10-03

The EU AI Act regulates AI systems by risk, from prohibited practices to high-risk systems and general-purpose AI models. Compliance Colleague classifies systems, spells out provider and deployer duties with the article cited, and tracks the timeline as amended by the Digital Omnibus.

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What it covers

Risk classification, Article 5 prohibitions and Annex III high-risk use cases
Provider, deployer and importer duties, including Article 26 and the Article 27 FRIA
General-purpose AI models and the Code of Practice (Articles 51 to 56)
Article 50 transparency, conformity assessment, CE marking and registration
The Digital Omnibus timeline: Annex III from 2 December 2027, Annex I from 2 August 2028

Questions you can ask

“Is our CV-screening tool high-risk, and what do we owe as the deployer?”
“When do the high-risk obligations apply to our Annex III system?”
“Do we have to label AI-generated content under Article 50?”

Every answer cites the EU AI Act requirement, article or control it rests on, so you can check it in seconds.

What you can upload for review

An AI system architecture or workflow diagram checked for human oversight and logging
An AI system inventory (Excel or CSV) checked for wrong risk tiers
Your AI policy checked against provider or deployer duties

Files: PDF, Word, Excel or CSV, Visio (.vsdx), draw.io, or an image such as a screenshot. Choose a full review, a prioritized fix list (each gap with its fix and the evidence an assessor will expect) or a short summary, and download the result as Word or PDF.

Crosswalk EU AI Act to other standards

With EU AI Act in your plan you can compare it against any standard in the library and see where they align and exactly where they don’t. Common pairings:

Upcoming EU AI Act dates

December 2, 2026

EU AI Act: new Art. 5 prohibitions and Art. 50(2) marking for older generative systems

Source: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 Art. 5, Art. 111(4) and Art. 113, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744

December 2, 2027

EU AI Act: high-risk obligations for Annex III systems apply

Source: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 Art. 113, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744

August 2, 2028

EU AI Act: high-risk obligations for Annex I products apply

Source: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 Art. 113, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744

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Example answers

When do the EU AI Act's high-risk obligations apply to Annex III and Annex I systems?

What it’s built from

Compliance Colleague carries the official text and checks its answers against it: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (Artificial Intelligence Act) (Publications Office of the European Union (EUR-Lex)); Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 amending the AI Act (Digital Omnibus on AI) (Publications Office of the European Union (EUR-Lex)).

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