{
 "schema_version": "0.1",
 "description": "Machine-readable registry of EU digital-regulation change events that affect claims in Tyche manuscripts. Each event records what moved, the primary source, and which manuscript claims it invalidates.",
 "maintainer_note": "Primary source (EUR-Lex/OJ) is REQUIRED for every event. Secondary commentary (law-firm trackers, LinkedIn) may prompt an entry but never substantiates one.",
 "events": [
  {
   "id": "2026-1744-digital-omnibus-ai",
   "recorded": "2026-07-25",
   "instrument": "Regulation (EU) 2026/1744",
   "title": "Digital Omnibus on AI — amending Regulations (EU) 2024/1689, (EU) 2018/1139 and (EU) 2023/1230 as regards the simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence",
   "adopted": "2026-07-08",
   "oj_publication": "2026-07-24",
   "oj_series": "L",
   "entry_into_force": "2026-07-27",
   "eli": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2026/1744/oj/eng",
   "amends": [
    "Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act)"
   ],
   "verified_against_primary_source": true,
   "verified_on": "2026-07-25",
   "date_changes": [
    {
     "subject": "High-risk AI systems, Annex III (stand-alone)",
     "old": "2026-08-02",
     "new": "2027-12-02",
     "confidence": "confirmed"
    },
    {
     "subject": "High-risk AI systems, Annex I (embedded in regulated products)",
     "old": "2027-08-02",
     "new": "2028-08-02",
     "confidence": "confirmed"
    },
    {
     "subject": "National AI regulatory sandboxes — establishment deadline",
     "old": "2026-08-02",
     "new": "2027-08-02",
     "confidence": "confirmed"
    },
    {
     "subject": "Article 50 transparency for AI-generated content — end of grace period for systems already on the market",
     "old": null,
     "new": "2026-12-02",
     "confidence": "confirmed"
    },
    {
     "subject": "AI Act Articles 102-110",
     "old": null,
     "new": "2026-07-27",
     "confidence": "confirmed"
    }
   ],
   "substantive_changes": [
    {
     "subject": "New Article 5 prohibition — AI generating/manipulating realistic intimate imagery without consent ('nudify' apps)",
     "note": "Genuinely new; not in the Nov-2025 proposal.",
     "application_date": "2026-12-02",
     "confidence": "confirmed",
     "resolution": "RESOLVED 2026-07-25 from primary text. Reg 2026/1744 Art. 4 carries entry-into-force only. The date lives in Art. 1 point (40)(a), which replaces AI Act Art. 113(3)(a): 'Chapters I and II shall apply from 2 February 2025, with the exception of Article 5(1), first subparagraph, points (ba) and (bb), and Article 5(1a) and (1b) which shall apply from 2 December 2026;'"
    },
    {
     "subject": "New Article 5 prohibition — CSAM within the meaning of Directive 2011/93/EU",
     "application_date": "2026-12-02",
     "confidence": "confirmed",
     "resolution": "RESOLVED 2026-07-25 from primary text. Reg 2026/1744 Art. 4 carries entry-into-force only. The date lives in Art. 1 point (40)(a), which replaces AI Act Art. 113(3)(a): 'Chapters I and II shall apply from 2 February 2025, with the exception of Article 5(1), first subparagraph, points (ba) and (bb), and Article 5(1a) and (1b) which shall apply from 2 December 2026;'"
    },
    {
     "subject": "AI Office competence clarified for AI systems built on GPAI models where model and system share a provider",
     "note": "Carve-outs retain national competence for law enforcement, border management, judicial authorities, financial institutions.",
     "confidence": "confirmed"
    },
    {
     "subject": "Annex I sectoral-law interplay narrowed — AI Act application limited where sectoral law already imposes similar AI-specific requirements",
     "confidence": "confirmed"
    },
    {
     "subject": "Machinery-regulation products exempted from direct AI Act applicability; Commission empowered to add health/safety requirements via machinery secondary legislation",
     "confidence": "confirmed"
    },
    {
     "subject": "Commission obliged to issue guidance minimising compliance burden for Annex I high-risk operators",
     "confidence": "confirmed"
    }
   ],
   "unchanged": [
    "Article 5 prohibitions already in force since Feb 2025",
    "GPAI and governance obligations in force since Aug 2025",
    "Article 4 AI-literacy duty",
    "Substance of high-risk obligations (conformity assessment, QMS, technical documentation, CE marking, EU database registration, FRIA) — only the dates moved"
   ],
   "watch_next": [
    "Commission burden-minimising guidance for Annex I operators (owed)",
    "Machinery-regulation secondary legislation (empowerment granted)",
    "The SECOND, larger Digital Omnibus (GDPR / Data Act / ePrivacy) — separate instrument, status unverified; bears on the gdpr-demonstrability-crosswalk line"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "pipeline": [
  {
   "id": "com-2025-837-digital-omnibus-data",
   "instrument_name": "Digital Omnibus Regulation — data/privacy limb of the 19 Nov 2025 package",
   "proposal_reference": "COM(2025) 837 final",
   "procedure": "2025/0360(COD)",
   "stage": "Proposal, first reading. No Council general approach. European Parliament: joint ITRE/LIBE, awaiting committee decision; committee draft report PE786.818 tabled 15/07/2026.",
   "eurlex": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:52025PC0837",
   "would_amend": [
    "Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR)",
    "Directive 2002/58/EC (ePrivacy)",
    "Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 (Data Act)",
    "Regulation (EU) 2022/868 (Data Governance Act)",
    "Regulation (EU) 2018/1807",
    "Directive (EU) 2019/1024",
    "Regulation (EU) 2019/1150",
    "Directive (EU) 2022/2555 (NIS2)",
    "Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 (DORA)",
    "Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 / (EU) 2024/1183 (eIDAS)"
   ],
   "notable_gdpr_items": [
    {
     "article": "Art. 4(1) definition of personal data",
     "proposed": "relative/subjective identifiability test",
     "status": "contested; EDPB/EDPS Joint Opinion 2/2026 opposed"
    },
    {
     "article": "New Art. 88a",
     "proposed": "terminal-equipment consent moved from ePrivacy Art. 5(3) into the GDPR",
     "status": "contested"
    },
    {
     "article": "New Art. 88b",
     "proposed": "machine-readable browser-level consent signals",
     "status": "contested"
    },
    {
     "article": "New Art. 88c",
     "proposed": "legal basis for AI development/training on a legitimate-interest footing",
     "status": "contested"
    },
    {
     "article": "Art. 9(2)",
     "proposed": "derogation for incidental special-category data in AI development",
     "status": "pending"
    },
    {
     "article": "Art. 22",
     "proposed": "scope of solely-automated decision-making clarified",
     "status": "pending"
    },
    {
     "article": "Art. 33",
     "proposed": "threshold raised, 72h -> 96h, single reporting entry point",
     "status": "broadly supported, not adopted"
    }
   ],
   "source_class": "secondary",
   "verified_against_primary_source": false,
   "last_checked": "2026-07-25",
   "caveat": "NOT LAW. No regulation number exists. Independently corroborated by this register's own EUR-Lex relationship-table scan: GDPR and the Data Act carry corrigendum rows only — zero substantive modification records as of 2026-07-25."
  }
 ]
}