The Form Kept Its Date
The Form Kept Its Date Corrected text, 30 October 2026. Published 27 October. The corrections are in the body, dated, and a third paragraph is now cited properly. One of them landed hours before this went to press and it is a hole in my own spine, not a footnote. On paper, the EU register for high-risk AI systems has had a date since 2 August this year. In fact there was no room to file in. On 9 July the Commission's AI Act service desk wrote, in a message Euractiv saw and published on 27 July: "This database is not yet open and operational." The AI Office, inside the Commission, is building it; Euractiv understands the launch is now expected in the third quarter of 2027. The Council had expected it by the end of June this year. So the register holds no filings, in a window the text calls open. My first draft of this paragraph said the register opened on 2 August and that twelve weeks of filings had been legal since. The date is real; the room is not. Corrected 29 October...