Risk · timeline
The compliance clock
The pressure behind decision assurance is a set of dates, not a preference. Public application dates below; scope varies by system and sector.
Aug 1, 2024
EU AI Act enters into force
The clock starts on the world's first comprehensive AI statute.
Jan 17, 2025
DORA applies (EU financial sector)
Financial entities must evidence ICT resilience, including third-party and automated systems.
Aug 2, 2025
EU AI Act: GPAI transparency obligations apply
General-purpose model duties land: documentation and transparency you must be able to show.
Aug 2, 2026
EU AI Act: broad application incl. high-risk regime
The frame most enterprise duties hang from becomes applicable. This is the deadline the market is buying against.
Aug 2, 2027
EU AI Act: extended deadline for regulated-product AI
High-risk AI embedded in regulated products reaches its final application date.
The common thread: each date asks the same question in different words. If a system acts, can you show what it did and why, to someone who does not have to take your word for it? Europe wrote the deadline first, so Europe is where the buying pressure shows up first. The record that answers it has to exist before anyone asks.