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 the dated duties are rows 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; thirty for a GDPR duty and sixty for a DPIA). It is the product's suggested pace and nothing more — a late joiner is due in n days, never overdue by years.

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 that reminds the owner; the management-system internal audit and management review 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 due date, from any standard you run — on the standard's programme page, and on this register in My work when they are yours.

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 source, scope, stage, status, system or domain; switch to My work for what is yours.
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 carries no lateness score; Status → Overdue on the register lists the open duties that are late.