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AI regulation in Poland
Enacted — phasing inLaw is passed and dates are fixed. Some duties already bite; others have a known deadline.
Poland applies the EU AI Act directly as an EU member state.
The instrument
EU Artificial Intelligence Act
Administered by European Commission / national authorities.
What it requires
- Article 5 prohibitions are in force: social scoring, untargeted facial-image scraping, emotion inference in workplaces and schools, and certain biometric categorisation and predictive policing.
- Article 50 transparency applies: people must be told when they are interacting with an AI system, and synthetic audio, image, video and text must be marked in a machine-readable way.
- General-purpose AI model obligations under Articles 51–56 apply to providers, including technical documentation and copyright policy.
- High-risk obligations — risk management, data governance, logging, human oversight, conformity assessment — are deferred, not cancelled. Systems being built now will be in scope on the new dates.
Timeline2 Feb 2025 Article 5 prohibitions took effect. 2 Aug 2025 General-purpose AI model obligations took effect. 27 Jul 2026 Digital Omnibus on AI entered into force, amending the Act. 2 Aug 2026 Article 50 transparency obligations took effect. 2 Dec 2026 Grace period closes for marking content from systems already on the market, and for the new prohibition covering non-consensual intimate imagery and CSAM generation. 2 Dec 2027 Annex III standalone high-risk obligations apply — deferred from 2 Aug 2026. 2 Aug 2028 Annex I high-risk obligations for regulated products apply — deferred from 2 Aug 2027.
Enforcement
The European AI Office, alongside national market surveillance authorities in each member state. The Omnibus gave the AI Office direct investigation and on-site inspection powers, the ability to accept binding commitments, and the power to impose fines.
This page is a general orientation guide built from public sources, not legal advice, and it does not establish that any organisation complies with Poland's requirements. AIC certifies governance against its own published standard; that is a different question from legal compliance, and neither substitutes for the other. Back to the map.