Updated for the omnibus adopted June 2026 — most guides online are outdated

Which EU AI Act rules
apply to you — right now?

High-risk duties deferred to Dec 2027. Chatbot disclosure lands Aug 2026; the watermarking grace period for existing systems ends Dec 2026. AI-literacy has applied since 2025. Answer 5 questions, get your obligations with correct dates — free.

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What is your company's relationship to AI?

This determines whether provider or deployer duties apply.

We use AI tools
Copilots, chatbots, generators, analytics — built by others
We build AI products
We develop and sell AI systems or features
Both
We build AI products and use AI tools internally

What does your AI do?

Select everything that applies.

Customer-facing chatbot / assistant
Generates text, images, audio or video
Marketing content, product images, voiceovers…
Synthetic media of real people, places or events
Emotion recognition
Biometric identification
Internal tools only
Copilots, coding assistants, analytics, automation

Is AI involved in any of these decisions?

These are the "high-risk" areas (Annex III). Select all that apply — or none.

Hiring, promotion, termination or worker monitoring
CV screening, interview scoring, productivity monitoring
Credit scoring, insurance pricing, benefits eligibility
Education: admission, grading, proctoring
Safety management of critical infrastructure
Biometric identification or categorisation
Law enforcement, migration or justice contexts

Honest check: any of these in use?

These practices are banned since February 2025. Better to find out here than from a regulator.

Scoring people's trustworthiness from unrelated behaviour
Emotion recognition of employees or students
Scraping faces from the internet or CCTV for databases
Subliminal or manipulative techniques causing harm

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Your AI Act position

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Why the dates matter

Already in force

AI-literacy duties (Art. 4) and the Art. 5 prohibitions have applied since February 2025. Most companies have neither a policy nor training records.

Moved up: Dec 2026

The omnibus agreement shortened the grace period for machine-readable marking of AI-generated content to 2 December 2026.

Moved back: Dec 2027

High-risk obligations (Annex III) were deferred to 2 December 2027 — but conformity work takes months, and transparency duties land first.

Was ist der EU AI Act und gilt er für mein Unternehmen?

Der EU AI Act gilt für nahezu jedes Unternehmen, das KI einsetzt oder anbietet — auch für KMUs. Die meisten Unternehmen sind Deployer (sie nutzen KI-Werkzeuge anderer) oder Anbieter mit geringem Risiko, keine Hochrisiko-Anbieter. Wer KI einsetzt — etwa Chatbots, generative KI für Inhalte oder interne Copilots — hat bereits heute konkrete Pflichten: Die KI-Kompetenzverpflichtung (Art. 4) gilt seit Februar 2025. Hochrisiko-Pflichten (Anhang III) gelten erst ab Dezember 2027 — aber die Transparenzpflichten kommen früher.

Welche Fristen gelten? (Art. 4, Art. 50)

Februar 2025 — Art. 4 (KI-Kompetenz): Bereits in Kraft. Unternehmen müssen die Entwicklung ausreichender KI-Kompetenzen bei Mitarbeitenden, die KI einsetzen, unterstützen — dokumentiert und nachweisbar.

2. August 2026 — Art. 50 (Transparenz): Chatbots müssen offenlegen, dass sie KI sind; KI-generierte Inhalte müssen gekennzeichnet werden.

2. Dezember 2026 — maschinenlesbares Marking: Für bereits auf dem Markt befindliche Systeme endet die Übergangsfrist für die maschinenlesbare Kennzeichnung KI-generierter Inhalte.

2. Dezember 2027 — Hochrisiko / Anhang III: Erst dann gelten die umfassenden Hochrisiko-Pflichten (Konformitätsbewertung, technische Dokumentation nach Anhang IV). Das im Juni 2026 verabschiedete Omnibus-Paket hat diese Frist verschoben — nicht aber Art. 50.

FAQ

Does the EU AI Act apply to my small company?

Most SMEs are deployers or limited-risk providers, not high-risk providers. If you use AI you already have duties: the Article 4 AI-literacy obligation has applied since February 2025, and Article 50 transparency (disclosing AI and labelling AI-generated content) applies from 2 August 2026.

What must I do by 2 August 2026 under Article 50?

From 2 August 2026, AI systems must meet Article 50 transparency rules: chatbots must disclose they are AI and AI-generated content must be labelled. Systems already on the market have until 2 December 2026 for the machine-readable marking requirement.

Do I need Annex IV technical documentation?

Annex IV technical documentation is a high-risk-provider obligation. The omnibus, formally adopted in June 2026, deferred high-risk obligations to 2 December 2027. Most SMEs are not high-risk providers and do not need it now.

How much does EU AI Act compliance cost for an SME?

Klariq provides the now-due document pack — classification, AI-literacy, transparency, governance and an AI-system register — for a flat one-time EUR 249, with no subscription and no sales call.

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