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The EU AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689) is phasing in on a staggered timeline. Prohibited practices have applied since February 2025, GPAI obligations since August 2025, and general enforcement of the Act, including transparency obligations, began on 2 August 2026. Under the Digital Omnibus, the grace period for AI-generated-content marking runs until 2 December 2026, Annex III high-risk obligations apply from 2 December 2027, and Annex I high-risk obligations from August 2028. MeshAI maps its features to specific articles so you can demonstrate compliance ahead of those dates.
High-risk dates reflect the Digital Omnibus amendments adopted in June 2026.

Coverage Summary

Article 6 - Classification of High-Risk AI Systems

Requirement: Organizations must classify AI systems based on their risk level per Annex III categories. MeshAI coverage: The Risk Classification feature lets you assign risk levels (minimal, limited, high, unacceptable) to each agent. AI-assisted suggestions analyze agent metadata against Annex III categories.

Article 12 - Record-Keeping

Requirement: High-risk AI systems must have automatic logging capabilities that record events throughout the system’s lifecycle. MeshAI coverage: The Audit Trail captures core governance actions as immutable events - agent registration/updates/deletion, kill-switch blocks, risk classification, policy changes, and anomaly acknowledgement/resolution. Events are timestamped, attributed to an actor, and exportable in CSV/JSON. (Some actions - approvals, incidents, FRIA, quarantine, ABAC, lifecycle - do not yet emit their own audit event; see each feature’s page.)

Article 13 - Transparency and Information to Deployers

Requirement: High-risk AI systems must be designed to be sufficiently transparent to enable deployers to interpret outputs and use them appropriately. MeshAI coverage: Transparency Cards are auto-generated for each agent, documenting purpose, capabilities, limitations, model provider, and risk classification. Access via GET /agents/{id}/transparency-card.

Article 14 - Human Oversight

Requirement: High-risk AI systems must be designed to allow effective human oversight during use. MeshAI coverage: HITL Approvals - via the require_approval policy type - inline-enforce human review before agents can execute certain actions. require_human_review is a periodic-review flag: it is recorded as evidence, not enforced inline, so it documents a review cadence rather than blocking an action in real time.

Article 26 - Obligations of Deployers

Requirement: Deployers must implement appropriate technical and organizational measures, monitor AI system operation, and keep logs. MeshAI coverage: The Agent Registry provides a complete inventory of all deployed AI agents. Governance policies enforce organizational rules. Real-time monitoring detects anomalies. All actions are logged in the audit trail.

Article 27 - Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment

Requirement: Deployers of high-risk AI must conduct a fundamental rights impact assessment (FRIA) before deployment. MeshAI coverage: The FRIA feature provides structured templates covering all six required assessment areas (a–f). Each FRIA is immutable once created - reassessing an agent creates a new, incrementing version rather than editing the prior one.

Article 50 - Transparency Obligations for Certain AI Systems

Requirement: Providers of AI systems that interact with natural persons must ensure users are informed they are interacting with AI. MeshAI coverage: Article 50 Transparency Evidence records application-reported AI disclosure and content-marking signals from OpenTelemetry spans. Built-in, observe-only policies evaluate whether the signals are present without treating missing telemetry as proof of non-compliance. Transparency Cards document agent purpose and interaction patterns, and the limited risk classification flags agents that may require transparency disclosures.

Article 73 - Reporting of Serious Incidents

Requirement: Providers and deployers must report serious incidents to the relevant market surveillance authority within strict deadlines. MeshAI coverage: The Incident Reporting feature provides structured incident creation, automatic deadline tracking (15-day and 2-day timelines), and authority notification support.

Readiness Score

MeshAI calculates a readiness score (0–120) across 7 components that map to these articles. Use it to track your compliance progress and identify gaps ahead of the Annex III (2 December 2027) and Annex I (August 2028) deadlines.