The Commission confirmed it began enforcing the AI Act’s transparency obligations on 2 August 2026 as scheduled; the omnibus deferred only high-risk provisions (ec.europa.eu, 31 July 2026).
Article 50 resolves YES unless EU law in force on 2 August 2026, as recorded on EUR-Lex and the Commission's AI Act page, defers or suspends the transparency obligations.
The EU's record on its own digital deadlines is split. We looked at five big EU digital laws and checked whether their deadlines came on the date the law set. The main laws took effect on the day promised. The more ambitious laws that followed slipped or died. The AI Act is now doing both at once.