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Documentation — EU timelines

Documentation of the timelines, step by step. Every step has a control point, every claim an article, and the chain carries hashes so the work can be shown afterwards.

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Step by step

  • 1. Write down the assessment with article, role and date on every row. Can be shown: the list, with date and owner.
  • 2. Link every claim to the node it rests on, not to a summary. Can be shown: the role choice with one sentence on why.
  • 3. Store hash and reading date together with the text. Can be shown: the article rows with address, hash and reading date.
  • 4. Mark what is your assessment and what is the source's wording. Can be shown: the gaps and what was decided about them.
  • 5. Put the document where the reviewer finds it without asking. Can be shown: the next check date and who owns it.

Audit chain

  • PSD2 — 115: Transposition — c7be03096b1d3750
  • GDPR — 99: Entry into force and application — 39694f9ac2eb377a
  • DMA — 54: Entry into force and application — cad4d688ab57c4ee
  • DSA — 92: Anticipated application to providers of very large online platforms and of very large online search engines — b517cc0816c205ec
  • DMA — 3: Designation of gatekeepers — 7624d0ae96f99888
  • DSA — 93: Entry into force and application — 24eacbef6b4d7e5f
  • NIS2 — 41: Transposition — 5dbfceecd7bfa8af
  • AI Act — 113: Entry into force and application — 7089ad50b7ba7180

What forces a redo

  • The node hash changes — the text behind the row is no longer the same.
  • The reading date moves forward — the row has been re-read against the source.
  • A timeline passes — the requirement starts to apply or tightens.

As data

  • The same node as data: add ?format=json to the address, or ?format=agent for receipt and dependencies.

Roles

Articles

Relations

Metadata

Acts
PSD2, GDPR, DMA, DSA, NIS2, AI Act
Articles
8
Reading date
2026-08-31
Freshness
74/100
Hash
7f257415049b4d44
Corpus version
legal-2026-08-25
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