Dates and deadlines: the Obligations timeline

Compliance is not a one-off — the EU AI Act expects systems to stay under review after they go live. In Veritome every dated thing is a row on the Obligations register, and the Timeline view is where those rows become a schedule. The old Calendar screen redirects here.

Three kinds of date

The product keeps three things apart that used to be painted as one "due date":

• Statutory — the law set it (the application date of the provision). Missing it is a legal fact.
• Planned — a person in the workspace set it. Missing it is your own business.
• Internal — nobody set it: the engine derived a working date from the later of the statutory date and the day the duty was generated for you, plus a risk-tiered window (fourteen days for an Art. 5 finding, thirty for high-risk work, sixty for Art. 4 literacy, ninety for Art. 50 transparency, none for minimal-risk). It is the product's suggested pace and nothing more — a late joiner is due in n days, never overdue by years.

The Dashboard's Dates, honestly panel shows the split, and only a statutory date that has passed, or a date a person set, is ever reported as overdue.

What carries a date

• Obligation due dates, as above.
• Periodic reviews — the classification, risk-management, post-market-monitoring and other reviews generated when you classify a system, each with an owner and a due date; the management-system audits and reviews are listed on Assessments. Completing one records who and when and appends a dated entry to the dossier.
• Incident clocks — the Art. 73 notification deadline on any open case (2, 10 or 15 calendar days by severity).
• Statutory milestones — the application dates the law sets, including the Annex III high-risk date of 2 December 2027 and the new Art. 5 prohibitions from 2 December 2026.
• Programme steps with a target date, from any standard you run.

Working the timeline

1. On Obligations, switch the layout to Timeline; rows are bucketed by week — everything already late, then the next three weeks, then later.
2. Filter by domain, framework, system, scope or status; toggle My tasks only.
3. Open any row to work it in the drawer — the same drawer as the List and Board views.

Red means one thing

A row is red only when a statutory date has passed, or a date a person set themselves. A window the engine suggested, or a duty whose statutory date the law has not reached, is a date — not an alarm. The Dashboard's Statutory late tile is the only headline that turns red, and it counts open duties whose statutory date has passed, across how many systems.