EU AI Act Logging Deadline Shifted to December 2027, Compliance Gaps Remain

The EU's Digital Omnibus on AI regulation was published on 24 July 2026 and came into force three days later, pushing the record-keeping deadline for high-risk standalone AI systems to 2 December 2027. Systems embedded in regulated products have until 2 August 2028 to comply. Under Article 12, high-risk AI must be capable of automatically recording events throughout its operational lifetime in enough detail to trace risk events and support post-market monitoring. However, experts note that most current agent systems produce logs but not true audit records, lacking key details such as the identity behind a request, the specific tool call made, the policy version that governed a decision, and tamper-evidence. An open-source tool called Verax has been developed to address these gaps by routing every tool call through a policy gate and generating signed, chained decision records stored locally on the host machine.