Everyone sells readiness against the Act. Almost nobody publishes whether the machinery you would need in order to comply is in place. Most of it is not. Each figure below names its source, the date it was checked, and how.
2 of 3 figures here were checked at the issuing institution’s own register. The third is a named third party’s count, marked as one, because Article 70 requires the Commission to publish that list and we could not locate a published version. Oldest check on this page: . If that date has drifted far from today, treat the page as stale and tell us, because maintaining it is the entire claim.
The register
Three things that do not exist yet
Each one is a piece of machinery the Act assumes, and each is checked at the source named beneath it rather than repeated from coverage.
Checked at sourceChecked
Are there harmonised standards you can build against?
None
A harmonised standard cited in the Official Journal is what gives a provider the presumption of conformity. For the AI Act, none has been cited. The Commission publishes an index with a page per piece of legislation, covering everything from toy safety to machinery to the cybersecurity certification scheme, and it carries no entry for artificial intelligence, the AI Act, or Regulation (EU) 2024/1689. Until one exists, conformity has to be argued from the Regulation itself rather than demonstrated against a standard.
How this was checked. Read the full index of legislation with harmonised standards pages. No AI Act entry is present.
Is there anyone who can carry out third-party conformity assessment?
Zero
The AI Act is listed in NANDO as legislation and marked Active, so the designation route is open. No body has completed it. Filtering the notified-body list to Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 with notification status Active, across all countries and all body types, returns no results at all. For anyone whose system will need third-party assessment, there is currently nobody in the Union to perform it.
How this was checked. NANDO is a JavaScript application, so this was checked in a browser rather than fetched. Legislation filter Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, notification status Active, no country or body-type filter. The list returned “Search results (0)”.
Has each Member State designated its own authorities?
9 of 27
Member States had until 2 August 2025 to designate both a market surveillance authority and a notifying authority. On the most recent count located, 9 had done both, 12 had partial clarity such as a pending proposal or a single authority appointed, and 6 had designated neither. That matters practically: the authority you would notify, or be assessed by, may not exist in your Member State yet.
How this was checked. Third-party tracker, figures dated 17 June 2026. Article 70 requires the Commission to publish the list of single points of contact; no such published Commission list was located on 5 September 2026, so this row is somebody else’s count and is labelled as one.
Missing infrastructure changes how you demonstrate conformity. It does not suspend what you owe, and reading it that way is the expensive mistake.
Already applies
Article 50 transparency has applied since 2 August 2026, whether or not a standard exists to measure it against.
Still ahead
Article 50(2) machine-readable marking, from 2 December 2026, for providers of synthetic-content systems already on the EU market before 2 August 2026.
What it changes
With no cited standard and no notified body, the defensible position this year is evidence you generated yourself and can show.
Questions
Asked and answered
Have any harmonised standards been cited for the EU AI Act?
No. The European Commission's harmonised standards index carries a page per piece of legislation and has no entry for artificial intelligence, the AI Act, or Regulation (EU) 2024/1689. Without a cited standard there is no presumption of conformity to rely on, so conformity has to be argued from the Regulation itself.
How many notified bodies are designated under the EU AI Act?
Zero. The AI Act is listed in NANDO as legislation and marked Active, so the designation route is open, but filtering the notified-body list to Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 with notification status Active, across all countries and body types, returns no results. Checked 5 September 2026.
Have all EU Member States designated their AI Act authorities?
No. Member States had until 2 August 2025 to designate both a market surveillance authority and a notifying authority. On the most recent count located, 9 of 27 had done both, 12 had partial clarity, and 6 had designated neither.
Does this mean the EU AI Act is not in force?
No, and this is the most common misreading. The obligations bind regardless of whether the machinery to assess them exists. Article 50 transparency has applied since 2 August 2026 and the prohibitions in Article 5 have applied since February 2025. What the missing infrastructure changes is how you demonstrate conformity, not whether you owe it.
Work out what this means for your systems
The readiness assessment establishes which obligations reach you, what is missing, and what evidence to generate while the standards and the assessment bodies do not exist.
