EU Data & AI Acts

EU AI Act

Artificial Intelligence Act

Law / regulation EU European Union Since 2024

A risk-tiered regime for AI systems: prohibited practices, obligations for high-risk systems (risk management, data governance, technical documentation, logging, human oversight, accuracy and robustness), transparency duties, and a separate track for general-purpose AI models.

Its data governance article is the one that lands on data teams: training, validation and test data sets must be relevant, sufficiently representative, and as far as possible free of errors and complete. ISO/IEC 42001 and the forthcoming CEN-CENELEC standards are how conformity gets demonstrated.

At a glance

Category
EU Data & AI Acts
Jurisdiction
EU
Governance
European Union
Status
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689; prohibitions since February 2025, general-purpose AI rules since August 2025, high-risk obligations from 2027
First released
2024

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