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Commission ties AI Act implementation support to the Service Desk and simplification work
Key takeaways
- The baseline law still points to 2 August 2026, but EU institutions are actively debating later dates for parts of the high-risk regime, so compliance timing is not politically settled.
- Implementation now depends as much on standards, guidance and AI Office tooling as on the legal text itself, because those materials define how providers and deployers prove compliance.
- Member-state authority design choices are fragmenting across the EU, which could produce uneven enforcement before the core high-risk obligations bite.
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