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EU high-risk AI register slips to 2027, deadline unclear
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Fusion42 · 27 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
The EU's high-risk AI registration database will not launch until Q3 2027, over a year late, creating legal ambiguity: companies may be obliged to register systems from August 2026 in a database that does not yet exist, with the Commission declining to clarify whether the registration duty itself has been deferred.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Generalist, and 2 sources have reported it.
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If you sell AI into the EU, the database where you must register high-risk systems won't exist until late 2027, but the obligation may already be live—the Commission won't say which. Build your compliance evidence now on the original timetable; the safe move is to register the moment the database opens, not wait for legal clarity that may never come.
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2 sources · 27 Jul 2026
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