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Entry into force, application dates and transitional provisions
When each part of the Regulation applies and what happens to systems already on the market — as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, which restructured the Article 113 timeline; the dates below are the amended, currently-applicable ones.
Article 111 — AI systems already placed on the market or put into service and general-purpose AI models already placed on the marked
Verbatim from EUR-Lex (consolidated text 02024R1689-20260727), via the Publications Office Cellar API.
1. Without prejudice to the application of Article 5 as referred to in Article 113(3), point (a), AI systems which are components of the large-scale IT systems established by the legal acts listed in Annex X that have been placed on the market or put into service before 2 August 2027 shall be brought into compliance with this Regulation by 31 December 2030.
The requirements laid down in this Regulation shall be taken into account in the evaluation of each large-scale IT system established by the legal acts listed in Annex X to be undertaken as provided for in those legal acts and where those legal acts are replaced or amended.
2. Without prejudice to the application of Article 5 as referred to in Article 113, third paragraph, point (a), this Regulation shall apply to operators of high-risk AI systems, other than the systems referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, that have been placed on the market or put into service before the date of application of Chapter III referred to in Article 113, only if, as from that date, those systems are subject to significant changes in their designs. In any case, the providers and deployers of high-risk AI systems intended to be used by public authorities shall take the necessary steps to comply with the requirements and obligations laid down in this Regulation by 2 August 2030.
3. Providers of general-purpose AI models that have been placed on the market before 2 August 2025 shall take the necessary steps in order to comply with the obligations laid down in this Regulation by 2 August 2027.
4. Providers of AI systems, including general-purpose AI systems, generating synthetic audio, image, video or text content, that have been placed on the market before 2 August 2026 shall take the necessary steps in order to comply with Article 50(2) by 2 December 2026.
Article 113 — Entry into force and application
Verbatim from EUR-Lex (consolidated text 02024R1689-20260727), via the Publications Office Cellar API.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 2 August 2026.
However:
- (a) Chapters I and II shall apply from 2 February 2025, with the exception of Article 5(1), first subparagraph, points (ba) and (bb), and Article 5(1a) and (1b) which shall apply from 2 December 2026;
- (b) Chapter III Section 4, Chapter V, Chapter VII and Chapter XII and Article 78 shall apply from 2 August 2025, with the exception of Article 101;
- (c) Chapter III, Sections 1, 2, and 3, with the exception of Article 6(5), shall apply from:
- (d) Articles 102 to 110 shall apply from 27 July 2026.
Sources
- EUR-Lex — Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act), consolidated text 02024R1689-20260727
- EUR-Lex — Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 (Digital Omnibus on AI), the amending act
- European Commission AI Office — guidance and codes of practice
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All text above is reproduced verbatim from the EUR-Lex consolidated EU AI Act (CELEX 02024R1689-20260727 — Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744), extracted mechanically via the Publications Office Cellar API. Each article and annex carries the official ELI identifier as a trailing attribute anchor (e.g. {#art_5}), which also works as a fragment on the EUR-Lex HTML view; paragraphs and points carry derived anchors built from the unit id and their printed labels (e.g. {#art_5-1-f}). Consolidation markers (▼M1/▼B) are omitted.