The thesis
“A committee that reads the postponement as a reprieve gets half its obligations wrong. ‘We were waiting for the Omnibus’ will not be an answer.”
— Aaron Ranson, Chief AI Officer at Thinkia
Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, the Digital Omnibus on AI, postpones the Annex III high-risk obligations by sixteen months, to December 2027. It does not touch the AI literacy obligation under Article 4, mandatory since February 2025, or the transparency obligation under Article 50, in force since August 2026.
What you will learn
- The verified AI Act timeline after the Omnibus: what is in force, what is new and what was postponed
- The five questions for the next committee meeting: inventory and risk category, Article 4 evidence, Article 50 labelling, what to do with the sixteen months gained, and who has the authority to stop a system
- Who answers each question inside the organisation and which document they should be able to produce if an auditor, a client or a regulator asks
- Why Spain works as Europe’s AI laboratory
- A plan for the next 90 days
Who this is for
Executive committees, CAIOs, CIOs, legal and compliance leads who need to know, with a date and a name, which AI Act obligations are already auditable today.