EU Artificial Intelligence Act (Regulation 2024/1689)
The world's first comprehensive AI law, taking a risk-based approach that prohibits certain practices, imposes strict obligations on high-risk systems, and sets transparency and general-purpose AI rules, phased in from 2025 to 2027.
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digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
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- Jul 12, 2024
- Last verified
- Apr 11, 2026
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Editorial summary
The world's first comprehensive AI law, taking a risk-based approach that prohibits certain practices, imposes strict obligations on high-risk systems, and sets transparency and general-purpose AI rules, phased in from 2025 to 2027.
Why this matters
The EU AI Act is the first comprehensive AI law on the planet and the one that AI vendors everywhere — including American and Chinese ones — actually restructure their products around, because the EU market is too big to ignore. Its risk-based approach bans some practices outright, imposes strict obligations on high-risk systems, and adds transparency rules for general-purpose AI, phased in between 2025 and 2027. This official Commission hub is the canonical place to track implementing acts, delegated acts, and the Codes of Practice that flesh out the law. Third-party summaries often skip the footnotes that actually determine compliance.
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- Jul 12, 2024
- Last verified
- Apr 11, 2026
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