The deadline extension is not an all-clear signal, but signals the beginning of stricter enforcement from 2027 onwards – as experience with GDPR and NIS2 shows.
Users of AI standard software are considered responsible parties for high-risk systems under the EU AI Act and are subject to the same compliance requirements as developers.
The EU AI Act extension until December 2027 compresses the available time for fundamental architectural decisions on data governance and logging — a compression, not a reprieve.
