EU AI Act — snapshot 2026-05-24

Source: EU AI Act · Snapshot date: 2026-05-24 · Change kind: editorial · Material change: yes

What you'll find here: the snapshot text captured on 2026-05-24, plus anchored sections for every article this site cites from this source. Each anchored heading is the target of a View source → link from a stage explainer.

Change summary: Scheduled EU AI Act capture (via mirror).

Open the official source on eur-lex.europa.eu ↗

The Act Texts

Browse the AI Act final draft online using our AI Act Explorer

Official Journal (2024)

The EU AI Act was published in the Official Journal (OJ) of the European Union on 12 July 2024. This is the final version of the text to be enforced.

There are a few different ways that you can view the AI Act text:

AI Act Explorer

Browse the full text of the AI Act with our easy-to-use AI Act Explorer, available in multiple languages.

Summary of the AI Act

The complete AI Act is hundreds of pages long. See our concise summary of the whole document, written for those who wish to get up to speed quickly.

Alternatively, you can view the full text of the Act on the web, as a HTML document, or as a PDF by using the official European Union web portal ‘EUR LEX’. These webpages for the Artificial Intelligence Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), Official Journal version of 13 June 2024 are linked below. Please select your language:

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Commission draft (2021)

The original AI Act as proposed by the European Commission can be downloaded below. Please note that the ‘Final draft’ of January 2024 as amended is the version that will likely enter into force, not the original draft below.

Main Articles

This is the main substance of the Act.

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Annexes

The Annexes provide supplementary information to the Act.

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For the most up-to-date version of the Act, see the Final draft in the section above, or use our AI Act Explorer. A summary presentation on the Act by the European Commission can be downloaded here.

Cited articles

These are the articles, clauses, or sections of EU AI Act that this site links to from its stage explainers. Each one has a stable anchor you can deep-link to.

Annex-III: Tracking metadata only — the substantive text is on the official source. Open EU AI Act ↗
Annex-IV: Tracking metadata only — the substantive text is on the official source. Open EU AI Act ↗
Art-1: Tracking metadata only — the substantive text is on the official source. Open EU AI Act ↗
Art-10: Tracking metadata only — the substantive text is on the official source. Open EU AI Act ↗
Art-11: Tracking metadata only — the substantive text is on the official source. Open EU AI Act ↗
Art-13: Tracking metadata only — the substantive text is on the official source. Open EU AI Act ↗
Art-14: Tracking metadata only — the substantive text is on the official source. Open EU AI Act ↗
Art-15: Tracking metadata only — the substantive text is on the official source. Open EU AI Act ↗
Art-2: Tracking metadata only — the substantive text is on the official source. Open EU AI Act ↗
Art-25: Tracking metadata only — the substantive text is on the official source. Open EU AI Act ↗
Art-26: Tracking metadata only — the substantive text is on the official source. Open EU AI Act ↗
Art-6: Tracking metadata only — the substantive text is on the official source. Open EU AI Act ↗
Art-72: Tracking metadata only — the substantive text is on the official source. Open EU AI Act ↗
Art-73: Tracking metadata only — the substantive text is on the official source. Open EU AI Act ↗
Art-9: Tracking metadata only — the substantive text is on the official source. Open EU AI Act ↗

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