Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence and amending Regulations (EC) No 300/2008, (EU) No 167/2013, (EU) No 168/2013, (EU) 2018/858, (EU) 2018/1139 and (EU) 2019/2144 and Directives 2014/90/EU, (EU) 2016/797 and (EU) 2020/1828 (Artificial Intelligence Act)

Summary

Lays down harmonised rules for placing on the market, putting into service and using AI systems in the EU, to protect health, safety and fundamental rights. It prohibits certain AI practices; sets requirements for high-risk AI systems, among them risk management, data governance, record-keeping, human oversight, accuracy and robustness; and imposes transparency duties for chatbots, deepfakes and machine-readable marking of AI-generated content. Providers of general-purpose AI models must document them; providers of models with systemic risk must also evaluate them, including adversarial testing, mitigate systemic risks and report serious incidents.

Safety topics

Status notes

Adopted on 13 June 2024 and published in the Official Journal (OJ L, 2024/1689) on 12 July 2024; it entered into force on 1 August 2024, the twentieth day after publication. Article 113 as adopted set the application dates: 2 February 2025 for Chapters I and II (general provisions, including AI literacy, and the prohibited practices); 2 August 2025 for notified bodies, general-purpose AI models, governance and penalties, except the fines on providers of general-purpose AI models (Article 101); 2 August 2026 for the rest; and 2 August 2027 for Article 6(1) high-risk systems. Under Article 111, general-purpose AI models placed on the market before 2 August 2025 must comply by 2 August 2027, and AI systems in the large-scale IT systems of Annex X by 31 December 2030. Since 2 August 2026 the AI Office and national authorities enforce the Act; the AI Office holds the enforcement powers over general-purpose AI models. The AI Omnibus, Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 of 8 July 2026 (EU-18), published in the Official Journal on 24 July 2026 and in force since 27 July 2026, amended the Act: the high-risk rules now apply from 2 December 2027 for the Annex III use cases and from 2 August 2028 for AI systems in products covered by Annex I; a ninth prohibition, in Article 5(1)(ba) and (bb), of AI systems that generate non-consensual sexually explicit and intimate content or child sexual abuse material, applies from 2 December 2026; generative AI systems placed on the market before 2 August 2026 must meet the Article 50(2) marking duty by 2 December 2026; each Member State must have a national AI regulatory sandbox operational by 2 August 2027; Article 4 now requires providers and deployers to take measures to support AI literacy; the AI Office's oversight of AI systems built on general-purpose AI models is centralised; simplified requirements for SMEs are extended to small mid-cap companies; and access to regulatory sandboxes, including an EU-level sandbox, is widened. EUR-Lex holds a consolidated version of 27 July 2026.

Sources

Open the official source https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj/eng

Secondary source: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/regulatory-framework-ai

Local copy

Verification

History

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4. 2026-10-17notes: Adopted 13 June 2024. Published in OJ L on 12 July 2024. Entered into force 1 Au → Adopted on 13 June 2024 and published in the Official Journal (OJ L, 2024/1689) — rewritten from Articles 111 and 113, the Commission's AI Act page and the stored text of Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 (number, date, publication, and the amended Articles 4, 5, 57, 111 and 113); the CELEX number, COM(2026) 234 and the Scientific Panel meeting removed (see verification.note)2026-10-17-recheck-europe-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
5. 2026-10-17safety_topics: ["risk-based classification", "prohibited practices", "general-purpose / frontie → ["risk-based classification", "prohibited practices", "general-purpose / frontie — twelve values cut to the six allowed: risk-based classification (Art. 6 and Annex III), prohibited practices (Art. 5), general-purpose / frontier AI (Arts 53 and 55), transparency & labelling (Art. 50), human oversight (Art. 14), incident reporting (Arts 55(1)(c) and 73). Dropped evaluation & testing, accountability & liability, deepfakes & synthetic media, critical infrastructure, public-sector use and catastrophic risk as the least central of those the text supports2026-10-17-recheck-europe-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
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Citation

European Parliament and Council of the European Union. Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence and amending Regulations (EC) No 300/2008, (EU) No 167/2013, (EU) No 168/2013, (EU) 2018/858, (EU) 2018/1139 and (EU) 2019/2144 and Directives 2014/90/EU, (EU) 2016/797 and (EU) 2020/1828 (Artificial Intelligence Act) [Regulation (EU) 2024/1689]. 2024-06-13. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj/eng. Status: Partially in force; verified 2026-10-17 (level A). Local copy archive/EU-03/2026-10-17/official-2.html retrieved 2026-10-17 18:20:37 UTC, SHA-256 8ad048371c675034dcd42e1ac3a6cd4ae27a6ba5df4e55f4d379c316ddab117c. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record EU-03.

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