Tools · Updated July 2026
How long is left on each deadline.
The deadlines we track, in date order. The days are counted in your browser against today’s date: the page does not age, and dates already passed stay on the list.
These are the same deadlines as the guide on documentation duties: each one asks for a dated document, not a statement of intent. What is added here is the count of days, recalculated on every visit.
An information tool, not legal advice and not a conformity assessment. The references are the ones cited entry by entry; the text that counts is the official one.
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ACN cloud rules: the transitional tolerance is over
Concerns Public administration
- Rule
- Regulation on digital infrastructure and cloud services for public administration, ACN directorial decree no. 21007/24 of 27 June 2024 (notice in Official Gazette no. 163 of 13 July 2024), art. 11(4) and (10)
- Who it concerns
- Public administrations and bodies handling critical or strategic data.
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Packaging Regulation (PPWR): the general obligations are applicable
Concerns Companies
- Rule
- Regulation (EU) 2025/40, arts. 15-20, 38-39, 44-45, 71
- Who it concerns
- Manufacturers, importers, distributors and fulfilment service providers placing or making packaging available on the EU market; producers subject to extended producer responsibility in each Member State where they first sell.
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Cyber Resilience Act: the reporting duty
Concerns Companies
- Rule
- Regulation (EU) 2024/2847, art. 14
- Who it concerns
- Manufacturers of products with digital elements — connected or connectable hardware and software — including products already on the market.
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Data Act: product data accessible by design
Not a compliance deadline for the installed base: the duty in art. 3(1) applies to connected products and related services placed on the market after 12 September 2026, product by product.
Concerns Companies
- Rule
- Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 (Data Act), art. 3(1), applicable under art. 50, third paragraph
- Who it concerns
- Manufacturers of connected products and providers of related services placing them on the Union market after that date; by extension, whoever buys those products and puts them into service.
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RENTRI: penalties start on missing waste manifests
Concerns Companies
- Rule
- Legislative Decree no. 152 of 3 April 2006, art. 258, paragraphs 10 and 10-bis
- Who it concerns
- Entities and businesses already registered with RENTRI and required to transmit waste manifests (FIR) digitally: the three registration windows under art. 13 of Ministerial Decree no. 59 of 4 April 2023 have all now closed, the last one by mid-February 2026.
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NEWS-D: Italy’s drug early-warning regulation enters into force
Concerns Companies and public bodies
- Rule
- Italy: DPCM 7 July 2026, no. 156 (Official Gazette, General Series no. 204 of 3 September 2026), implementing Article 14-bis of Presidential Decree 309/1990
- Who it concerns
- First- and second-level NEWS-D collaborating centres: public, private and university clinical and forensic toxicology laboratories, forensic medicine institutes, emergency units, poison control centres, police laboratories, and private bodies seeking recognition by an act of the head of the Department.
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ICT census: public bodies declare what is in the machine room
Concerns Public administration
- Rule
- Article 33-septies(1-ter) of Decree-Law 179/2012; AgID survey opened on 22 July 2026
- Who it concerns
- Central and local public administrations required to answer the questionnaire on their ICT estate. For schools and universities AgID has said the deadline will be announced later: 30 September is not a universal cut-off.
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NIS2: the baseline security measures, evidenced
A per-subject deadline: eighteen months from the notice of inclusion in the list, received by the first wave from 12 April 2025 onwards. The count here starts from 12 October 2026, the earliest possible day.
Concerns Companies and public bodies
- Rule
- Italian Legislative Decree 138 of 4 September 2024, arts. 23, 24 and 29, with the deadline set by art. 42(1)(c) and by ACN determination 379907/2025
- Who it concerns
- Essential and important entities in the first wave: registered between December 2024 and February 2025, they received their listing notification from 12 April 2025 onwards.
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Annual landfill guarantees: the decree is converted, or it falls retroactively
Concerns Companies
- Rule
- Italian Decree-Law 154 of 28 August 2026, art. 1, replacing art. 208(11)(g) of Legislative Decree 152 of 3 April 2006; conversion deadline under Article 77, third paragraph, of the Constitution
- Who it concerns
- Companies admitted to extraordinary administration under Decree-Law 347 of 23 December 2003 — which requires at least five hundred employees for a year and debts of no less than three hundred million euros — running at least one plant declared of national strategic interest under art. 1 of Decree-Law 207 of 3 December 2012, a status conferred by decree of the Prime Minister and presupposing at least two hundred employees for at least a year. A narrow field, drawn by two cross-references rather than by a list.
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Tracking pixels in email: consent and notice, in writing
Concerns Companies and public bodies
- Rule
- Italian Data Protection Authority, measure no. 284 of 17 April 2026 — guidelines on the use of tracking pixels in email communications, published in Official Gazette no. 98 of 29 April 2026
- Who it concerns
- Anyone placing tracking pixels in email: controllers sending marketing and newsletters, email service providers, operators of bulk email platforms.
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Product liability: documentation as a defence
Concerns Companies
- Rule
- Directive (EU) 2024/2853
- Who it concerns
- Anyone placing on the market, or integrating, software and AI systems in a product or service under their own brand.
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Data Act: switching charges for cloud providers fall away
Concerns Companies and public bodies
- Rule
- Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 (Data Act), art. 29(1) and (2), with the definition in art. 2(36)
- Who it concerns
- Providers of data processing services — cloud and edge — and their customers, businesses and public bodies alike.
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Machinery Regulation: the manual decides the CE marking
Concerns Companies
- Rule
- Regulation (EU) 2023/1230, which repeals Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC on the same date
- Who it concerns
- Manufacturers of machinery and partly completed machinery, importers and distributors placing products on the Union market.
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DataMatrix on medicines: the old seal can no longer substitute
Concerns Companies
- Rule
- Legislative Decree No. 10 of 6 February 2025, Art. 13(4), (6) and (9) (transposing Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/161)
- Who it concerns
- Manufacturers, wholesalers, pharmacies and healthcare facilities handling medicinal products subject to the unique-identifier regime.
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Battery passport: the electronic file becomes mandatory
Concerns Companies
- Rule
- Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, Art. 77
- Who it concerns
- Anyone placing on the market, or putting into service, LMT batteries, industrial batteries with a capacity greater than 2 kWh, and electric vehicle batteries.
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DORA register of information: annual submission to the Bank of Italy by 15 March
Concerns Companies
- Rule
- Regulation (EU) 2022/2554, Article 28(3) and (9); Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2956; Bank of Italy communication of 13 February 2026
- Who it concerns
- Financial entities under Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 supervised by the Bank of Italy
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Data centres: the annual sustainability report
Concerns Companies and public bodies
- Rule
- Directive (EU) 2023/1791, art. 12, and Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/1364, art. 3(1)
- Who it concerns
- Owners and operators of data centres in the Union with an installed information technology power demand of at least 500 kW: enterprise, colocation and co-hosting.
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Pay transparency: the first report on the gap
Concerns Companies
- Rule
- Italian Legislative Decree 96 of 7 May 2026, art. 9(9) (deadlines and frequency) and art. 9(8) (the 100-employee threshold); arts. 10 and 11
- Who it concerns
- Companies with at least 250 employees, reporting annually, and companies between 150 and 249, with the same first deadline and then every three years. Between 100 and 149 the start is 7 June 2031.
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NIS: the categorised list of activities and services
Concerns Companies
- Rule
- Italian Legislative Decree 138 of 4 September 2024, art. 30(1), with art. 42(2) and ACN determination no. 155238/2026
- Who it concerns
- Essential and important entities on the Italian NIS register, public and private.
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Data Act: unfair terms catch up with old contracts
It covers only contracts concluded on or before 12 September 2025 that are of indefinite duration or expire at least ten years after 11 January 2024. Chapter IV already applies to contracts concluded after 12 September 2025.
Concerns Companies
- Rule
- Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 (Data Act), Chapter IV — art. 13 —, applicable under art. 50, sixth paragraph
- Who it concerns
- Enterprises that unilaterally imposed terms on data access and use on another enterprise, and the enterprises that had those terms imposed on them.
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CBAM: the first annual declaration covers the whole of 2026, if the threshold was crossed
Concerns Companies
- Rule
- Regulation (EU) 2023/956, Article 6(1) and Article 2a, as replaced by Regulation (EU) 2025/2083; Annex VII, point 1; application dates in Article 36(2)
- Who it concerns
- Importers of cement, iron and steel, aluminium, fertilisers, electricity and hydrogen from third countries, and the indirect customs representatives acting for importers not established in the Union
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Cyber Resilience Act: technical file and software bill of materials
Concerns Companies
- Rule
- Regulation (EU) 2024/2847, arts. 13, 28, 30, 31 and 32, Annexes I and VII
- Who it concerns
- Manufacturers of products with digital elements placed on the Union market.
The full calendar, in a machine-readable form.
The JSON file holds the fourteen deadlines on this page plus the ones that sit in the other guide — the AI Act dates and Italy’s law 132/2025 — with dates, audiences, links to the notes and the primary source each entry was checked against. Useful to anyone tracking them in their own calendar or handing them to an assistant.
The two AI Act dates rest on the same documents.
On 2 December 2027 the obligations on Annex III high-risk systems apply; on 2 August 2028 those on systems embedded in already regulated products, the Machinery Regulation included. The full calendar sits in the dedicated guide.
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