The EU Omnibus Simplification Package proposes material amendments to the AI Act, including an 18-month delay to the Annex III high-risk obligations. This page tracks every legislative stage in real time, maps the proposed changes provision by provision, and identifies what remains binding on 2 August 2026 regardless of the Omnibus outcome. Bookmark it. Check it weekly.
The Omnibus follows the standard co-decision procedure (ordinary legislative procedure) under Article 294 TFEU. Seven stages from Commission proposal to Official Journal publication.
The European Commission published COM(2025) 529, the Omnibus Simplification Package. For the AI Act, the package proposed moving the Annex III high-risk deadline from 2 August 2026 to 2 December 2027 and narrowing several Annex III categories. The Commission cited disproportionate compliance costs for SMEs as the rationale.
The Council of the EU adopted a general approach on the Omnibus. The Council broadly supported the Commission's proposed delay to Annex III obligations. Exact adoption date and full Council position text pending verification against Council press releases.
The IMCO and LIBE committees of the European Parliament adopted a joint position on the Omnibus AI Act provisions. The committee position accepted the delay to Annex III but sought to preserve the FRIA obligation timeline and introduced amendments to the Article 50 machine-readable marking provisions.
The European Parliament plenary voted to grant a negotiating mandate based on the IMCO/LIBE committee position. This authorises MEP negotiators to enter trilogue with the Council. The Parliament's mandate represents its opening position for trilogue; the final text may differ materially.
Trilogue is the informal inter-institutional negotiation between Parliament negotiators, Council Presidency, and Commission representatives. Key open issues include: the final Annex III deadline date, the scope of Annex III category narrowing, treatment of Article 27 FRIA obligations, and the Article 50 machine-readable marking grace period. Trilogue meetings are not publicly broadcast; outcomes reported via institutional press releases.
A political agreement is reached when negotiators from all three institutions agree on final text. This typically triggers a joint press release from Council Presidency, Parliament rapporteurs, and Commission. The text then goes to legal-linguistic finalisation before formal adoption. The political agreement is the definitive signal that a specific deadline date is locked.
After legal-linguistic finalisation, the Council and Parliament formally adopt the agreed text through written procedure. The regulation is then published in the Official Journal of the European Union. Entry into force is typically 20 days after OJ publication. For any Annex III delay to apply before 2 August 2026, formal adoption must precede that date.
Each row shows the original AI Act date, the proposed new date, and the current status across the three institutions. Colour coding: amber for delayed, green for unchanged, grey for contested or unclear. Click any column header to sort. Use the filter buttons to narrow the view.
| Provision | Original date | Proposed new date | Status | Council position | Parliament position | Trilogue | Notes | Source |
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Even if the Omnibus passes in full and is formally adopted before 2 August 2026, the following obligations bind on that date regardless. These are either (a) unchanged by the Omnibus proposal or (b) already in force. Plan your compliance programme around this list.
Week-by-week expected events from 25 April to 25 July 2026. Monitor these dates. Outcomes from each event may change the binding position materially.
How this tracker is maintained, sourced, and updated.
This tracker is reviewed every week at minimum. Any institutional press release, Official Journal entry, or verified trilogue outcome triggers an immediate ad hoc update. The "Updated" timestamp reflects the last editorial review, not just the last text change.
Every date and position cited on this page is sourced from primary institutional documents where possible. Where we cannot verify against primary text, cells are marked "Pending verification" and linked to the relevant institutional page. We do not infer dates from secondary reporting alone.
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