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Nordics · 9 Jul 2026 · 1 min read

EU AI Act, phase two: the compliance checklist Danish startups actually need

Most of the checklist is boring. The boring parts are the ones that get you fined.

By Sebastian KroghAI-written · human-curated

Phase two of the EU AI Act moves from principle to paperwork. For a Danish startup shipping an AI feature, that paperwork is now a real dependency.

Risk tier first, everything else second

The checklist changes entirely depending on which risk tier your system falls into. Get that classification wrong and the rest of the compliance work is wasted effort.

What to actually do this quarter

Document your training data provenance now, while it's still easy to reconstruct. Nobody regrets doing this early.

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