Use primary EU sources for statements about the law. Use Commission material only as guidance or a voluntary implementation aid. Never use a blog, vendor checklist, social post, search-result summary, or another skill as legal authority.
This register was pinned on 2 August 2026. A live check is still required before every review when internet access is available.
Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 entered into force on 27 July 2026 and materially changes the base act, including application dates, Article 50(7), Article 99, transitional rules, definitions, prohibited practices, governance, and high-risk provisions. Never review the unamended 2024 text as though it were current on its own.
Guidance can explain the Commission’s view but cannot replace the regulation. The icons are optional and do not prove compliance. The voluntary code supports implementation; it is not the source of the duty.
Open the canonical ELI record for Regulation (EU) 2024/1689.
Check its document relationships for every amendment, corrigendum, repeal, delegated act, and implementing act published after this register’s date. This relationship list, not the pinned links below, is what establishes whether a newer instrument exists.
Repeat the same relationship check on every modifier you find, including Regulation (EU) 2026/1744. An amending regulation receives its own corrigenda, and those appear on the modifier’s record rather than on the base act’s. Continue until no discovered instrument has an unchecked relationship list.
Open each modifier that could affect the provision, role, content language, or application date under review.
Read the exact operative article in the relevant official-language version. Also read Article 2 scope, Article 3 definitions, Article 111 transitions, Article 113 application rules, and any cross-referenced provision needed for the finding.
Check the currency of every Commission guidance page and voluntary code you intend to cite. Open the page and compare its stated publication or last-updated date with this register’s pinned date. Guidance is revised without a corrigendum and without changing its URL.
Record the access date, source language, CELEX or ELI identifier, and the modifier used.
No internet: state, “Live legal-source verification was unavailable. This review uses the pinned source register dated 2 August 2026 and does not claim to state current law.”
Blocked, empty, or unusable response: a reply that carries no expected legal text is unavailable, never evidence that nothing changed. This includes an empty body, a bot or WAF challenge, a CAPTCHA, a consent wall, a login page, a redirect loop, a placeholder, an error page, and a page whose relationship list does not load. Official portals do return these. Retry once, then try another official route for the same fact: the ELI record, the CELEX record, the EUR-Lex document-relationship page, or the Official Journal entry. If no route returns the expected content, the check has failed — use the unavailable wording above and name which step failed. Never infer “no newer instrument exists” from a response you could not read.
Partial verification: when some steps succeed and others fail, do not describe the review as either current or unverified as a whole. State which steps completed, which failed, and which findings rest on unverified sources. Cap the affected findings at the status their evidence supports.
Guidance changed or undated: if a cited guidance page or voluntary code has changed since the pinned date, or its date cannot be established, still cite it, but mark it as possibly superseded in the finding, say so in the legal-currency statement, and record that a human must re-read it before relying on it.
New unknown modifier: stop findings affected by it, link the official document, and state that the source register needs human review before legal mapping continues.
Official pages disagree or are unclear: describe the conflict, cite both pages, and leave the point unresolved.
Only a secondary source is available: use it only to locate the primary source. Do not use it to support a finding.
XML or metadata endpoint: inspect its contents before relying on it. A well-formed official metadata notice is not necessarily the operative legislative text.
Every one of these outcomes belongs in the report’s legal-currency statement. A reader must never have to assume that verification happened.
Law: an Official Journal act, corrigendum, amendment, delegated act, implementing act, or other binding legal instrument.
Official guidance: Commission, AI Office, AI Board, or another competent EU body’s explanatory material that is not itself binding legislation.
Voluntary code: a code or practice that organisations may use to support implementation but that does not create the underlying duty. Describe an official icon as an optional official asset under Official guidance, and state that it does not establish compliance.