# Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 amending Regulations (EU) 2024/1689, (EU) 2018/1139 and (EU) 2023/1230 as regards the simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI)

- **Jurisdiction:** European Union (EU)
- **Type:** Regulation · **Status:** In force · **Binding:** yes
- **Issued by:** European Parliament and Council of the EU
- **Proposed:** 19 Nov 2025 · **Adopted:** 8 Jul 2026 · **Effective:** 27 Jul 2026
- **Next milestone:** 2 Dec 2026: New Article 5 prohibitions (non-consensual intimate deepfakes, CSAM generation) apply; legacy generative AI systems must meet Article 50(2) marking
- **Obligations:** Prohibited uses, Labelling AI content, Risk classification, Registration or filing, Data governance, Regulatory sandbox, Penalties
- **Sectors:** All sectors
- **Penalties:** AI Act penalty regime applies (up to EUR 35 million or 7% of worldwide turnover for prohibited practices); lower caps for SMEs and small mid-caps.

## Summary
Amends the AI Act: postpones high-risk obligations to 2 Dec 2027 (Annex III stand-alone systems) and 2 Aug 2028 (Annex I product-embedded systems), adds bans on AI that generates non-consensual sexual images of identifiable people or child sexual abuse material from 2 Dec 2026, and gives pre-Aug-2026 generative systems until 2 Dec 2026 to watermark outputs. It also softens the AI-literacy duty to 'take measures to support' literacy, allows processing of special-category data for bias detection, simplifies registration, extends SME relief to small mid-caps and moves national sandbox deadline to 2 Aug 2027.

## Why it matters
This is the adopted outcome of the Nov 2025 omnibus proposal: high-risk compliance programmes get 16-24 more months, but Article 50 transparency still applied from 2 Aug 2026 and new prohibitions arrive in December 2026.

## Source
[EUR-Lex (OJ L, 2026/1744, 24.7.2026)](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ:L_202601744) · [secondary](https://www.whitecase.com/insight-alert/eu-ai-omnibus-enters-force-amending-ai-act)
Checked against the source on 4 Oct 2026. Commission proposal COM(2025) 836 of 19 Nov 2025; provisional political agreement 7 May 2026 (per Spanish government note); EP position 16 Jun 2026; Council decision 29 Jun 2026; signed 8 Jul 2026; OJ 24 Jul 2026; in force 27 Jul 2026 (third day after publication).

## Cite
Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 amending Regulations (EU) 2024/1689, (EU) 2018/1139 and (EU) 2023/1230 as regards the simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI). European Parliament and Council of the EU. Status: In force. wheresthe.ai, https://wheresthe.ai/rule/eu-digital-omnibus-ai-2026-1744/ (verified 4 Oct 2026).

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