Regulatory calendar
Dated events recorded from primary sources: effective dates, transition deadlines, consultation and comment windows.
3 forthcoming and 14 already past, out of 17 dated event(s) this record holds. Past events are under a disclosure at the foot of this page; nothing is withheld from a reader without scripting. Beneath them sits a second and separate population: the dates the signal store carries, which are publication dates rather than events.
Confidence is stated on every date. A date marked (expected) or (estimated) has not been confirmed by the issuing authority and must not be planned against as though it were fixed. Only confirmed dates are taken from a published document.
A lens over this record files no row here under Verification. Every row here states its own date confidence, which is a claim about the date. The verification facet is a claim about whether a person checked the parent entry’s status. Two confidences on one row is where one is read for the other, so this surface files no row under that facet.
2026 Q4
| Date | Confidence | Regulation | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (estimated) | EU GMP Annex 22 | publication expected No publication date has been announced. This entry records that none is known. | link (opens in new tab) · retrieved |
2027 Q3
| Date | Confidence | Regulation | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| confirmed | EU AI Act | applicability begins Date stated in Article 113 for obligations relating to certain high-risk systems. | link (opens in new tab) · retrieved |
2027 Q4
| Date | Confidence | Regulation | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| confirmed | EU Cyber Resilience Act | applicability begins Full application of Regulation (EU) 2024/2847. | link (opens in new tab) · retrieved |
Events already past — 14 of 17
2026 Q3
| Date | Confidence | Regulation | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| confirmed | EU Cyber Resilience Act | applicability begins Manufacturer vulnerability and incident reporting obligations under Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 apply from this date. | link (opens in new tab) · retrieved | |
| confirmed | EU AI Act | applicability begins Applicability date recorded for Annex III, Annex IV, Article 10, Article 11, Article 12, Article 13 and 9 more | link (opens in new tab) · retrieved | |
| confirmed | EU AI Act | applicability begins General application date stated in Article 113 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689. | link (opens in new tab) · retrieved |
2026 Q2
| Date | Confidence | Regulation | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| confirmed | EU Cyber Resilience Act | applicability begins Notified Body framework under Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 applies from this date. | link (opens in new tab) · retrieved |
2026 Q1
| Date | Confidence | Regulation | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| confirmed | EU NIS2 Directive | transition deadline End of the transition period following transposition of Directive (EU) 2022/2555 into national law. | link (opens in new tab) · retrieved |
2025 Q3
| Date | Confidence | Regulation | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| confirmed | EU AI Act | applicability begins Applicability date recorded for Article 53, Article 99 | link (opens in new tab) · retrieved |
2025 Q1
| Date | Confidence | Regulation | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| confirmed | EU AI Act | applicability begins Applicability date recorded for Article 5 | link (opens in new tab) · retrieved |
2024 Q3
| Date | Confidence | Regulation | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| confirmed | Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 | effective date Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 recorded as in force as of this date | link (opens in new tab) · retrieved | |
| confirmed | EU AI Act | applicability begins Applicability date recorded for Article 113 | link (opens in new tab) · retrieved |
2022 Q1
| Date | Confidence | Regulation | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| confirmed | EU IVDR | effective date EU IVDR recorded as in force as of this date | link (opens in new tab) · retrieved |
2020 Q2
| Date | Confidence | Regulation | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| confirmed | EU MDR | effective date EU MDR recorded as in force as of this date | link (opens in new tab) · retrieved |
2016 Q2
| Date | Confidence | Regulation | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| confirmed | IEEE 7000 | superseded on IEEE 7000 recorded as withdrawn as of this date | link (opens in new tab) · retrieved |
2015 Q1
| Date | Confidence | Regulation | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| confirmed | EU GMP Annex 15 | effective date EU GMP Annex 15 recorded as in force as of this date | link (opens in new tab) · retrieved |
1997 Q3
| Date | Confidence | Regulation | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| confirmed | 21 CFR Part 11 | effective date 21 CFR Part 11 recorded as in force as of this date | link (opens in new tab) · retrieved |
Dates the signal store carries
A second population, kept apart from the events above. Every row above is a dated event a primary source stated a date for. Every row here is a signal — one item a source’s own publication feed listed — carrying the single date the store holds for it: the day the source itself dated that entry.
That is a publication date, and not a scheduled event. The store holds no effective date, no consultation close and no transition day from any signal, because no adapter fetches the item behind a listing entry — so none is derived here, and no row here carries the confidence qualifier the events above carry. The stages a source’s own tokens name are on the horizon.
No read has been attempted against any declared source, so this record
holds no signal date. state/signals/ holds no meta file for
any of the 2 source(s) it declares, and that zero is an
unasked question rather than a source that listed nothing.
The store carries no dated signal. The paragraph above names which zero that is, and the Observatory names it per source.
A lens narrows the dated events and no figure on this page. It does not narrow the signal dates, which are filed under no facet here and carry no row key: the lens sentence counts the events it was given, so a signal row left standing beneath a narrowed table has not been matched by anything. Every figure here is derived from the store when the page is built and counts the whole population; the sentence beside a lens carries its own counts, with the population each one was taken over. A date is recorded where a primary source states one, so a quarter with no section is a quarter this record holds no dated event for — not a quarter in which nothing is due.
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