The EU AI Act Newsletter #108: Enforcement Begins

<p> New transparency obligations apply, and the AI Office opens complaint and whistleblower channels.</p> <p><strong> Legislative Process</strong></p><p> Commission starts enforcing AI Act rules and new transparency requirements: The European Commission reports that, from 2 August 2026, its AI Office, alongside national authorities, has begun enforcing the AI Act. Additionally, the new transparency rules have also taken effect. Under those rules, chatbots and other interactive systems must tell users they are dealing with AI rather than a human, deepfakes must be labelled, and AI-generated or altered content must carry machine-readable marks so it can be detected more easily. Alongside this, the Commission published a first list of more than 180 organisations that have signed the Code of Practice operationalising those transparency rules. Enforcement now also covers prohibited practices and providers of general-purpose AI models, including their documentation, copyright policy and training-data summaries, with extra obligations for models posing systemic risks. Responsibility for enforcing the transparency rules and prohibited practices is shared between the AI Office, national competent authorities and the European Data Protection Supervisor. The AI Omnibus, meanwhile, postpones the high-risk rules to 2 December 2027 and the rules for high-risk AI systems integrated into regulated products to 2 August 2028.</p><p> [...]</p> <p>---</p><p><strong>Outline:</strong></p><p>(00:35) Legislative Process</p><p>(03:05) Analyses</p><p>(06:41) Jobs</p><p>(08:50) Discussion about this post</p><p>(08:54) Ready for more?</p> <p>---</p>
<p><b>First published:</b><br/>
August 12th, 2026 </p>

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