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Digital Omnibus · summary of changes
02.12.2027
High-risk systems (Annex III) POSTPONED
02.08.2026
Article 50 — transparency obligations UNCHANGED

If “the AI Act got postponed” put you at ease — this is the part that didn't.

The high-risk regime slipped to December 2027. The transparency obligations did not. If you're a company selling into the EU, the chatbot on your site and the AI content you generate are in scope right now.

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§ 01 — Scope test

Are you in scope?

Four questions taken from Article 2 of the Regulation. Being established outside the EU does not put you out of scope on its own — what matters is where the output is used.

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 1 / 4
§ 02 — Compliance dossier

What comes out is a filled file, not a consultant's report.

In an audit, or on an EU buyer's supplier form, what's asked for isn't a report — it's a completed file. The six documents delivered:

You can download the blank templates here for free. If you'd like help filling them in for your company, click here to arrange a preliminary call.

§ 03 — How it works

Four steps, five business days.

  1. Preliminary call 20 minutes · free We look at your systems together and determine whether you're in scope. If you're out of scope, we tell you so and the call ends there.
  2. Inventory session 90 minutes Which AI system runs where, who provides it, what output it produces. We establish your role system by system — are you a provider, a deployer, or deemed a provider under Article 25.
  3. File preparation 5 business days The six documents are filled in for your company and delivered. We also review three of your supplier agreements specifically for their AI clauses.
  4. Delivery and support 30 days The signed compliance statement and the register are delivered. For the next 30 days we answer implementation questions by email.

Scope is determined in the preliminary call; the fee is fixed and given in writing up front. No hourly billing.

§ 04 — Where these documents came from

Not from the text of the Regulation — from filled files.

These templates are the simplified form of documents we've actually used in compliance work at the intersection of the EU AI Act, GDPR and KVKK. Every clause has been filled in once for a real system and read once by the other side.

§ 05 — Frequently asked

Objections.

Wasn't the AI Act postponed?

Part of it was. The Digital Omnibus moved the obligations for high-risk systems (Annex III) to 2 December 2027 and product-embedded systems to 2 August 2028. The transparency obligations in Article 50 stayed outside that postponement and apply as of 2 August 2026.

We're outside the EU, we have no EU company. Does it bind us?

The Regulation applies even where the provider or deployer is established in a third country, as long as the system's output is used within the Union (Art. 2(1)(c)). Your servers can be in Istanbul and your office in Ankara; if you provide an assistant running on your German customer's website, you're in scope.

We only use OpenAI's API — we're not the provider.

If you offer a third-party system under your own name or brand, make a substantial modification, or change its intended purpose, you're deemed a provider under Article 25. Most white-labelled AI products are in this situation and don't know it. It's the first thing we look at in the preliminary call.

How big is the penalty risk really?

An Article 50 breach is subject to administrative fines of up to EUR 15 million or 3% of worldwide annual turnover under Article 99, whichever is higher; for SMEs, whichever is lower. But in practice the fine doesn't come first: EU corporate buyers' supplier-audit forms ask for a compliance statement, and a supplier without one drops off the purchasing list.

What does this work not cover?

Conformity assessment, technical documentation and CE marking for high-risk systems (Chapter III), together with the Chapter V obligations of general-purpose AI model providers, are out of scope. What's covered is the four paragraphs of Article 50. If yours is a broader matter, we say so in the preliminary call.

What happens in the preliminary call?

20 minutes. You share your screen, we look at your site and the tools you use together, and work out which paragraphs apply. By the end you know whether you're in scope and what's missing. Even if you decide not to run the work with us, that information stays with you.

First find out whether you're in scope.

Twenty minutes. If you're out of scope, we tell you that clearly too.

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