Guides
Long reads · dated · sourced
As of September 2026
Three guides.
With sources.
Three topics every AI project in the EU runs into, written down once: the AI Act after the Omnibus, AI literacy, and agents that act.
After the Digital Omnibus: roles, risk classes, the dates drawn to scale, fines, and a checklist for this quarter.
about 15 minutes9 chapters16 sourcesChecklistRead 02 / 03AI literacy under Art. 4What the duty asks since the Omnibus, who counts as staff, what measures look like per role, and a planner.
about 10 minutes8 chapters9 sourcesPlannerRead 03 / 03Introducing AI agents safelyPermissions, approval gates, logs, evals, prompt injection, incidents, the AI Act and the works council.
about 14 minutes11 chapters12 sourcesReadiness checkRead01 · This summer
Four dates
that moved things.
Three of them fell within nine days of each other. The fourth is the next deadline. The guides start from here.
- 24 July 2026
- Omnibus publishedRegulation (EU) 2026/1744 in the Official Journal; in force three days later, on 27 July 2026.12
- 29 July 2026
- KI-MIG in forceThe Bundesnetzagentur becomes Germany’s market surveillance authority for AI.3
Sources
- 01
- 02European Commission: AI Omnibus enters into force (27 July 2026) digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
- 03
- 04European Commission: AI Act, application timeline (updated 3 August 2026) digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
- 05European Commission: AI literacy, questions and answers (updated 27 July 2026) digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
- 06AI Act, Article 113 (entry into force and application), consolidated artificialintelligenceact.eu
- 07
Not legal advice A summary of the legal situation as of September 2026, not legal advice.
02 · How we write them
Dated. Sourced.
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- 01Dated
Every guide carries the month it was written for. Check the date before you rely on it; the law keeps moving.
- 02Sourced
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- 03Not legal advice
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