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Regulatory Timeline Router

Compliance Deadlines

A side-by-side market clock for Europe and India, designed to route teams toward the right COFY product before enforcement pressure arrives.

EU

Europe

AI Act

enforcement live from 2 Aug 2026

IN

India

DPDP

main rule wave from mid-May 2027

Europe enforcement

Europe

Erfüllen readiness lane

AI Act

EU AI Act obligations, GPAI supervision, transparency duties, and high-risk readiness windows.

active

1 Aug 2024

EU AI Act entered into force

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 became the operating baseline for AI providers, deployers, importers, and distributors.

active

2 Feb 2025

Prohibited practices and AI literacy

The first hard obligations began applying, including banned unacceptable-risk AI practices and AI literacy duties.

active

2 Aug 2025

GPAI and governance obligations

Governance rules and general-purpose AI model obligations became applicable.

active

2 Aug 2026

Core enforcement powers

The AI Office and Member State authorities begin implementing, supervising, and enforcing key AI Act provisions.

upcoming

2 Dec 2026

Additional prohibition

Non-consensual intimate-material and CSAM generation/manipulation prohibitions apply.

upcoming

2 Dec 2027

Annex III high-risk systems

High-risk AI rules apply to sensitive-area systems such as biometrics, employment, education, migration, and critical infrastructure.

upcoming

2 Aug 2028

Regulated product systems

High-risk AI systems embedded into regulated products move into the full compliance window.

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India enforcement

India

nitiAI readiness lane

DPDP

DPDP commencement waves, India-hosted operations, and MeitY AI governance monitoring.

active

11 Aug 2023

DPDP Act enacted

The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 became the statutory foundation, with commencement dependent on Central Government notification.

active

3 Jan 2025

Draft DPDP Rules consultation opened

MeitY published the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 for public comments over a 45-day window.

active

13 Nov 2025

DPDP Rules notified

Rules 1, 2, and 17 to 21 came into force on publication in the Official Gazette.

upcoming

Mid-Nov 2026

Consent Manager rule window

Rule 4 comes into force one year after Gazette publication.

upcoming

Mid-May 2027

Main DPDP operating obligations

Rules 3, 5 to 16, 22, and 23 come into force eighteen months after Gazette publication.

monitor

5 Nov 2025

India AI Governance Guidelines unveiled

MeitY unveiled the India AI Governance Guidelines under the IndiaAI Mission. Treat these as governance guidance, not a standalone AI Act.

monitor

Monitor

MeitY AI rulemaking and IT Rules updates

Track future notified rules separately. Draft or consultation material should not be presented as enforceable until formally notified.

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Source Grounding

Public regulatory sources, not marketing guesses

Dates should be reviewed before launch copy is frozen. The page intentionally separates enforceable dates from guidance and draft-monitoring items.

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