Commission proposes 'digital omnibus on AI' to adjust AI Act implementation

On 19 November 2025 the European Commission adopted the digital omnibus on AI (COM(2025) 836), a proposal for targeted simplification of certain AI Act provisions to ensure timely, smooth and proportionate implementation — including the timing of the high-risk requirements. It is part of the Commission's wider digital-simplification package. As a proposal, it changed nothing by itself; the co-legislators' agreement followed in May 2026.

This proposal started the only formal process that can move AI Act dates. Knowing what was proposed — and that a proposal is not law — is the difference between re-planning on rumour and re-planning on the adopted text.

Providers and deployers of high-risk AI systems, and anyone sequencing an AI Act compliance programme against the original timetable.

Do not re-baseline on the proposal itself; follow the legislative file through to the adopted amending regulation and take the dates from the Official Journal.