Europese verordening Wet (Eindversie)

The EU Artificial Intelligence Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) is the European Union's comprehensive, horizontal law governing artificial intelligence. It is the first regulation of its kind: rather than targeting one sector, it applies across the single market to providers, deployers, importers, and distributors of AI systems, including organisations established outside the EU whose AI output is used within it. Its aim is to ensure AI placed on the EU market is safe and respects fundamental rights, while supporting innovation.

The Act takes a risk-based approach, sorting AI systems into unacceptable-risk uses that are prohibited, high-risk uses subject to strict obligations, and limited-risk uses subject mainly to transparency duties. It entered into force on 1 August 2024 and applies in phases: prohibitions and AI-literacy duties from 2 February 2025, general-purpose AI and governance rules from 2 August 2025, and the bulk of the high-risk requirements from 2 August 2026. Organisations that use or build AI therefore face binding obligations now, with the most significant compliance milestone arriving in August 2026.