The AI Act stopped being a text yesterday.
Issue #101 · 20 October 2026
On 19 October the Commission published the reference to the first harmonised standard under the AI Act in the Official Journal.
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The EU AI Act
What the Act requires, when each obligation bites, and what has actually been published in the Official Journal — as opposed to what has been announced.
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- The AI Act for associations
Whether you are a provider or a deployer, the four duties that reach a membership body, the dates, and the five items of evidence a board will ask for.
- Who is responsible for AI Act compliance as a deployer?
The duty sits on the organisation, not on a person — where it lands, why the supplier’s contract cannot move it, and what Article 26 actually asks for.
- AI Act Article 4 — the evidence that actually satisfies it
In force since February 2025 and not deferred. Why a completion certificate is not evidence, and the four items that are.
- Can we put member data into an AI tool?
Three laws in one question, the member-data categories that can never leave the building, and a three-bucket rule staff will actually follow.
- An AI policy for a membership organisation
Most sector policies are prohibition lists staff route around within a month. Two pages, five decisions and three clauses that change behaviour.