Milestone · 2 August 2026 · All 27 Member States
Article 57 — Member State sandboxes by August 2026.
EU AI Act Article 57 requires every Member State to establish at least one operational AI regulatory sandbox by 2 August 2026. These supervised environments let deployers test AI systems under regulator oversight before full market entry — with proportionate enforcement relief and structured evidence collection.
Deadline
2 August 2026 — sandbox must be operational in each Member State.
Scope
Providers and prospective providers, with priority for SMEs and start-ups.
Penalties
No new penalty regime; opt-in participation reduces enforcement exposure during testing.
Audact coverage
Sandbox-ready evidence chain + audit-ready artefacts from day one of admission.
How Audact helps deployers participate
- Sandbox-application kit: prepared documentation of evidence-chain controls, FRIA inputs (patent-pending), and disclosure attestation samples
- Per-Member-State policy engine pre-configured for the supervising authority's expectations
- Structured exit-report data on incident detection, conformity pre-assessment, and remediation cycles
- Application support planned to track against NL AP, DE BNetzA / Datenschutzkonferenz, and IE DPC sandbox programmes as they become operational
Sandbox participation produces a documented compliance posture that travels with the deployment when it leaves the sandbox. Audact's artefacts are designed for that handover.