Mark your calendar: EU AI Act enforcement dates

The EU AI Act will enforce prohibitions on practices posing an unacceptable risk. Entities must ensure their AI applications do not fall within these prohibitions.

Providers and deployers of AI systems shall take measures to ensure, to their best extent, a sufficient level of AI literacy of their staff. This activity should take into account their technical knowledge, experience, education and training. It also needs to take into account the context the AI systems are to be used in, and it should consider the persons or groups of persons on whom the AI systems are to be used.

Significant developments will occur in the AI regulatory landscape. Obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models will take effect, member states will appoint authorities to oversee the Act’s implementation, and the European Commission will conduct an annual review of AI systems posing unacceptable risks.

The European Commission will implement an act focused on post-market monitoring of AI systems.

A milestone will be reached concerning high-risk AI systems, particularly those in Annex III. Member states are expected to establish rules regarding penalties and administrative fees, set up at least one national AI regulatory sandbox, and the European Commission will review the list of high-risk AI systems.

Stringent obligations will be enforced for high-risk AI systems that are either intended to be used as safety components of a product or are themselves a product. This includes products that are required to undergo third-party conformity assessments under existing EU laws, such as radio equipment, civil aviation security and agricultural vehicles.

The Act will require certain AI systems, particularly those that serve as components of large-scale IT systems established by EU law in the domains of freedom, security and justice, to be brought into compliance.