The EU AI Act is in force, but as amended in July 2026 its high-risk rules (Chapter III, Sections 1 to 3, except Article 6(5)) apply in general from 2 December 2027 for systems that are high-risk under Annex III and from 2 August 2028 for those in products covered by Annex I; high-risk systems placed on the market or put into service before then are covered only if their design changes significantly afterwards, and those intended for public authorities must comply by 2 August 2030.

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Claim LD12-HQ-C01 (v1.1)

Provenance and status

Claim type: Fact
Publication status: Eligible for publication
Verification state: Checked against the primary source. Who checked this claim is not recorded for it; claim checks so far were AI-led, and no person has checked claims against their sources.
Does not license: That the AI Act is wholly inactive or that high-risk systems are otherwise unregulated
Limitations: These are general application dates, subject to the transitional rules of Article 111 and to separate dates for other parts of the Act; read in the amending regulation, not in a consolidated text; future dates remain subject to later amendment
Source (as cited): Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 (Digital Omnibus on AI), Article 1, points (39) and (40)
Source type: Legal text (recorded as “EU legal primary”)
Institutional position: EU institutions
Maturity of the evidence: Mature evidence
Recorded date: 22 October 2026
Currentness / correction: This is the current version. No correction or concern is recorded on its sources.

Sources this version cites

Regulation (EU) 2026/1744; European Commission AI Omnibus implementation material (Legal text)
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Version

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This pinned version is also the current version.

Versions: v1.0, v1.1 · current

What changed in this version

This version supersedes version v1.0 (LD12-HQ-C01--v1.0), which stays available with its record unchanged.

Changed fields: 2 PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM; 6 SOURCE; 11 SAMPLE / DATASET; 14 MAIN RESULT; 18 LIMITATIONS; 19 CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES; 25 RECORDED DATE
What changed: The claim no longer gives the two dates as undifferentiated dates for “high-risk obligations”. It now says which provisions they cover (Chapter III, Sections 1 to 3 of the AI Act, except Article 6(5)), that they are general application dates, and that the amended transitional rule in Article 111(2) covers high-risk systems already on the market or in service before those dates only if their design changes significantly afterwards, with a 2 August 2030 deadline for systems intended for public authorities. The source field now names the exact provisions of the amending regulation (Article 1, points (39) and (40)) instead of also citing unnamed Commission implementation material, the limitations say the dates are subject to those rules, and the supporting-sources field says the Commission material was not re-read. The two dates, the claim type, the maturity and the verification state are unchanged.
Why: An external research-integrity review of the site on 22 October 2026 (an AI reviewer, not a person) found the dates correct but the claim overcompressed: it presented them as dates for all high-risk obligations, without the provisions they cover or the transitional treatment of existing systems. SocioLens read the Official Journal text of Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 of 8 July 2026 (OJ L, 24 July 2026) on 22 October 2026. Article 1, point (40)(b), replaces Article 113, third paragraph, point (c) of the AI Act: “Chapter III, Sections 1, 2, and 3, with the exception of Article 6(5), shall apply from: (i) 2 December 2027 as regards AI systems classified as high-risk pursuant to Article 6(2) and Annex III; and (ii) 2 August 2028 as regards AI systems classified as high-risk pursuant to Article 6(1) and Annex I”. Article 1, point (39)(a), replaces Article 111(2): the Regulation applies to operators of high-risk AI systems placed on the market or put into service before that date “only if, as from that date, those systems are subject to significant changes in their designs”, and those intended for use by public authorities must comply “by 2 August 2030”. Its final article puts it in force on the third day after publication. The Commission implementation material cited by version 1.0 was not re-read and is no longer cited in the source field; the pinned Source record keeps its version 1.0 label, which still names that material, because a Source record also changes only by a new version. The check and this revision were done by an AI agent reading the regulation, not by a person.

Raw record: every recorded field, with its coded values

All 25 canonical Claim fields, verbatim, with the coded values derived from them. The plain-language labels above are read from these.

Claim type (coded): FACT (as printed: “FACT”)
Publication status (coded): ELIGIBLE (as printed: “ELIGIBLE”)
Verification state (coded): CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY
Source type (coded): LEGAL_PRIMARY
Maturity (coded): MATURE

#	Canonical field	Canonical value (verbatim)	Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2)
1	CLAIM ID	LD12-HQ-C01	—
2	PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM	The EU AI Act is in force, but as amended in July 2026 its high-risk rules (Chapter III, Sections 1 to 3, except Article 6(5)) apply in general from 2 December 2027 for systems that are high-risk under Annex III and from 2 August 2028 for those in products covered by Annex I; high-risk systems placed on the market or put into service before then are covered only if their design changes significantly afterwards, and those intended for public authorities must comply by 2 August 2030.	—
3	CLAIM TYPE	FACT	base_types: FACT
4	RESEARCH STRAND	A — Implementation/enforcement	—
5	MATURITY	MATURE	states: MATURE
6	SOURCE	Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 (Digital Omnibus on AI), Article 1, points (39) and (40)	source_ids: SRC-LD12-EU-AI-ACT-2026-1744
7	SOURCE TYPE	EU legal primary	classes: LEGAL_PRIMARY
8	INSTITUTIONAL POSITION	EU institutions	—
9	SCOPE	EU AI Act as amended; legal application stage	—
10	DESIGN	Legal-documentary	—
11	SAMPLE / DATASET	The amending regulation (OJ L, 24 July 2026; in force 27 July 2026), Article 1, points (39) and (40), which amend Articles 111 and 113 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689	—
12	MODEL / TOOL / VERSION	n.a.	—
13	COMPARATOR	Original high-risk application dates	—
14	MAIN RESULT	Article 113, third paragraph, point (c), as amended: Chapter III, Sections 1, 2 and 3, except Article 6(5), apply from 2 December 2027 for AI systems high-risk under Article 6(2) and Annex III, and from 2 August 2028 for those under Article 6(1) and Annex I. Article 111(2), as amended: high-risk systems (other than the large-scale IT systems of Article 111(1)) placed on the market or put into service before that date are covered only if their designs change significantly from then on; providers and deployers of those intended for use by public authorities must comply by 2 August 2030. Other AI Act obligations already apply on their own dates	—
15	INFERENTIAL TARGET	Legal-stage discipline	—
16	DOES NOT LICENSE	That the AI Act is wholly inactive or that high-risk systems are otherwise unregulated	—
17	VERIFICATION STATE	CONTENT VERIFIED	state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · verified_by: UNKNOWN
18	LIMITATIONS	These are general application dates, subject to the transitional rules of Article 111 and to separate dates for other parts of the Act; read in the amending regulation, not in a consolidated text; future dates remain subject to later amendment	—
19	CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES	Version 1.0 recorded that Commission implementation material supports the same dates; that material was not re-read for this version	—
20	GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE	EU / English	—
21	DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER	Deferral postpones AI-specific protections and compliance duties simultaneously	—
22	R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS	D6, Layer 0 item 5, L-B	—
23	WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM?	Further legislative amendment or annulment	—
24	PUBLICATION STATUS	ELIGIBLE	state: ELIGIBLE
25	RECORDED DATE	2026-10-22	—

Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: D6 (DOMAIN); Layer 0 item 5 (LAYER_0_ITEM); L-B (LENS)

The sources as recorded, with their record IDs and coded source types:

Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)

“Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 (Digital Omnibus on AI), Article 1, points (39) and (40)” → Regulation (EU) 2026/1744; European Commission AI Omnibus… (SRC-LD12-EU-AI-ACT-2026-1744--v1.0) — Regulation (EU) 2026/1744; European Commission AI Omnibus implementation material; class LEGAL_PRIMARY (explicit public provenance pin)

Cite this page

SocioLens project. (2026, October 22). The EU AI Act is in force, but as amended in July 2026 its high-risk rules (Chapter III, Sections 1 to 3, except Article 6(5)) apply in general from 2 December 2027 for systems that are high-risk under Annex III and from 2 August 2028 for those in products covered by Annex I; high-risk systems placed on the market or put into service before then are covered only if their design changes significantly afterwards, and those intended for public authorities must comply by 2 August 2030 [Claim LD12-HQ-C01, version v1.1]. SocioLens. https://sociolens.eu/claims/ld12-hq-c01/v1.1/

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Research-of-record provenance

Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 c7051f1d61e029b552b963b1490a8def09261f178cf0299376c6eb64ae278712.

Frozen Drive-derived inputs

SocioLens — Proof Source Registry v0.4 (v0.4) — Drive ID 1_-GLmj6PfetWDQH2KldMv-61vmSmzdAyyxgZZZCFnbE; revision: NOT_EXPOSED_BY_DRIVE_TEXT_EXPORT; Drive modified 2026-09-27T19:04:00.374Z; block “REGISTRY ENTRY SRC-LD12-EU-AI-ACT-2026-1744” SHA-256 c175cc7831c763a4511022782dcac04f8e9528ba48d9bb288148390e9b5e565e; SocioLens — Programme Status & Authority Register v0.6 status “CURRENT PROOF SOURCE REGISTRY.”; frozen fixture fixtures/frozen/proof-source-registry-v0.4.

Repository-authored inputs (not Drive exports)

SocioLens claim revision — LD12-HQ-C01 v1.1 (v1.1) — written in the SocioLens repository by Project Lead (Claude, AI) on 2026-10-22; no Drive identity exists. Authority: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and docs/PROJECT.md "Research revisions" (a published claim changes only through a new version that states what changed and why). Block “ENTRY 01 — LD12-HQ-C01” SHA-256 61bd07c41fd50d2da3dc24ad5be0436b7fbe402b63b91c2819267a0a06ec787b; fixture fixtures/authored/claim-revisions/LD12-HQ-C01--v1.1.

Builder decisions (not Drive data)

VERSION = v1.1 — basis: Claim version taken from the repository-authored revision fixture version (SocioLens claim revision — LD12-HQ-C01 v1.1); a new version of LD12-HQ-C01 v1.0, which stays routable (AGENTS.md research integrity rule 3)
CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: repository-authored revision "SocioLens claim revision — LD12-HQ-C01 v1.1" (Project Lead (Claude, AI), 2026-10-22); basis: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and docs/PROJECT.md "Research revisions" (a published claim changes only through a new version that states what changed and why)
FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-LD12-EU-AI-ACT-2026-1744--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 01 — LD12-HQ-C01 cites "Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 (Digital Omnibus on AI), Article 1, points (39) and (40)"; the field-6 text of this ClaimVersion's repository-authored ledger block; the same Source record LD12-HQ-C01 v1.0 cites.
SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-LD12-EU-AI-ACT-2026-1744--v1.0 — basis: explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion (Amendment v1.2 §6): the pinned field-6 Source record "Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 (Digital Omnibus on AI), Article 1, points (39) and (40)".