The Commission's own label is 'Digital Omnibus on AI'; 'AI Omnibus' is the informal shorthand used in this brief.
What it does
Simplification of the AI Act, principally by deferring the high-risk tier.
How it allocates obligations
Inherits the AI Act's.
Regulated actor
AI provider · AI deployer
Protected party
Affected person
Territorial reach
Established in the EU · Outside the EU, serving EU users
Implementation model
Directly applicable
Enforcement mechanism
Inherits the AI Act's.
Key dates
Entry into force, application and transposition are different events and are kept apart. A date at month precision is shown as a month rather than invented as a day.
19 November 2025Legislative proposalThe Commission publishes the Digital Omnibus, split into COM(2025) 836 on AI and COM(2025) 837 on data.
8 July 2026AdoptionAdoption
24 July 2026Publication in the Official JournalPublication in the Official Journal
27 July 2026Entry into forceRegulation (EU) 2026/1744 enters into force, amending the AI Act.
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Enforcement
No enforcement recorded
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3 Primary law1 Official source1 Secondary only1 Attributed view1 Interpretation
Primary lawlaw
The AI Omnibus delayed the AI Act's high-risk obligations by sixteen months for Annex III systems and twelve for Annex I product-embedded systems, while leaving prohibitions, GPAI duties and transparency close to the original schedule.
Tier 1 · primary lawstates this
Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 of 8 July 2026 (Digital Omnibus on AI) — EUR-Lex 8 July 2026Art. 1, point (40)(b), replacing Art. 113, third paragraph, point (c); point (40)(a) (Art. 5 additions from 2 December 2026); point (39)(b) (new Art. 111(4), Art. 50(2) by 2 December 2026); recital 40
The AI Omnibus replaced Article 4 of the AI Act: providers and deployers must now take measures to support the development of AI literacy of their staff, and the obligation does not require them to guarantee any specific level of AI literacy — where the original text required measures to ensure a sufficient level.
The AI Omnibus was proposed on 19 November 2025; the Council adopted its general approach on 13 March 2026 and Parliament its mandate on 26 March 2026, by 569 votes to 45; agreement was reached on 7 May 2026; Parliament approved the text on 16 June and the Council on 29 June 2026.
Legislative Train — Digital Omnibus on AI — European Parliament 2026'The Council agreed its general approach on 13 March 2026. The co-legislators reached a trilogue agreement on the file on 7 May 2026'; 'Parliament's plenary approved the agreement on 16 June 2026 ... and the Council adopted the act on 29 June 2026'
The second political trilogue on the AI Omnibus, on 28 April 2026, ended without agreement after roughly twelve hours, over how the AI Act interlocks with existing sectoral product-safety law rather than over the delay itself.
The EDPB and EDPS adopted Joint Opinion 1/2026 on the AI Omnibus and Joint Opinion 2/2026 on the Data Omnibus, holding in the second that the personal-data definition change goes far beyond a targeted modification and would significantly narrow the concept, that the Art. 41a implementing-act power should not be entrusted to the Commission, and that Art. 88c is unnecessary.
Tier 2 · regulatorstates this
EDPB–EDPS Joint Opinion 2/2026 on the Digital Omnibus proposal — European Data Protection Board February 2026Paras 17 ('significantly narrowing the concept of personal data') and 21 ('goes far beyond a targeted modification of the GDPR'); paras 23 and 25 (applying the definitions is for supervisory authorities; 'suggest deleting proposed Article 41a GDPR'); para 39 ('it is not necessary to add a specific provision to the GDPR on this point')
The November 2025 Digital Omnibus is an official concession that the rulebook the Union spent six years building requires structural repair before it has finished arriving.
1 recorded interaction with other instruments — each with a direction, the provisions that carry it and its own sources. Direction is preserved as recorded: an instrument that amends another is not the same as one amended by it.
Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 amends the AI Act, deferring the high-risk tier while leaving prohibitions, GPAI duties and transparency close to the original schedule.
What the brief argues
Primary lawThe AI Omnibus delayed the AI Act's high-risk obligations by sixteen months for Annex III systems and twelve for Annex I product-embedded systems, while leaving prohibitions, GPAI duties and transparency close to the original schedule.