The EU postponed high-risk AI obligations to December 2027, but the transparency obligation stays in force from 2 August 2026. A commentary by Nermin Sefić.
The European Union postponed obligations for high-risk AI systems until December 2027, but the transparency obligation remains in force from 2 August.
On 27 July 2026, the European Union brought the so-called Digital Omnibus on Artificial Intelligence fully into force — legislation that postpones obligations for high-risk AI systems under Annex III (recruitment, credit scoring, law-enforcement decision-support tools, border control) by nearly sixteen months, to 2 December 2027.
The market's first reaction was relief, understandably — companies gained extra time to comply with the most demanding part of the regulation. But a reader who stops at that sentence misses what actually matters more: the transparency obligation under Article 50, including mandatory labelling of AI-generated content and disclosure of interaction with an AI system, remains completely unchanged and becomes enforceable on 2 August 2026 — without a single day's delay.
This separation is not accidental, and it's worth understanding as a principle, not merely a date on a calendar. The regulator sent a message every board should hear: system complexity can justify extra time to comply, but the obligation to tell a user openly what they're dealing with should not wait for anyone.
The package also introduces a hard ban on so-called "nudifier" applications and tools for generating non-consensual sexualised content, with a deadline of December 2026 — here the regulator left no room for interpretation or accommodation, and rightly so.
For companies operating in a single market of 450 million people, the message is clear: the six days remaining until 2 August are not a time to relax because "the main deadline was postponed." They are a time to check whether transparency obligations are genuinely ready.
The GNK ASG group tracks this regulation directly, through our own AI systems and through advising partner companies — and the position we consistently hold is that transparency toward the user should never be an item that waits its turn.
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Autor i urednička odgovornost: Nermin Sefić. Izdavač: GNK ASG d.o.o..
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