A 2025/2026 legislative package designed to streamline and harmonize technical standards, conformity assessments, and enforcement timelines across the EU AI Act and related digital safety laws.
The Digital Omnibus was introduced to fix the "many-hands problem" in AI value chains. It clarifies the provider-deployer split, specifically addressing how runtime tool invocations affect "substantial modification" rules. It also adjusts high-risk compliance deadlines to December 2027 and August 2028, ensuring harmonized standards are available before enforcement begins.
An enterprise using a foundation model through an API integrates a real-time translation tool. The Digital Omnibus provides the framework for determining whether this new integration triggers a fresh conformity assessment or if the original provider's certification remains valid.
