{"id":28998,"date":"2026-07-31T11:33:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilnex.io\/en\/eu-ai-act-small-business-accounting\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:38:00","slug":"es-ai-istatymas-del-mazuju-imoniu-apskaitos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bilnex.io\/lt\/es-ai-istatymas-del-mazuju-imoniu-apskaitos\/","title":{"rendered":"Ar ES Dirbtinio intelekto \u012fstatymas taikomas ma\u017eoms \u012fmon\u0117ms, kurios naudoja dirbtin\u012f intelekt\u0105 apskaitai? (Atnaujinta 2026 m. liepos m\u0117n.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article-content-section article-content article-single\">\n<div class=\"container content-area\">\n<div class=\"text-content ce-answer\">\n<h3 id=\"in-short-tl-dr\">In short (TL;DR)<\/h3>\n<p>Using AI for bookkeeping, invoice processing or reporting doesn&#8217;t make your company the operator of a &#8220;high-risk AI system&#8221; \u2014 accounting automation isn&#8217;t on the AI Act&#8217;s high-risk list. And the scary deadline moved anyway: Regulation (EU) 2026\/1744, published in the Official Journal on 24 July 2026, postponed the high-risk obligations from 2 August 2026 to 2 December 2027. What does arrive on 2 August 2026 is a set of transparency duties, and an AI literacy requirement has already applied since February 2025. Here&#8217;s the full picture.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-changed-in-july-2026\">What changed in July 2026?<\/h2>\n<p>The EU adopted the so-called Digital Omnibus on AI, Regulation (EU) 2026\/1744, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewissilkin.com\/insights\/2026\/07\/27\/the-digital-omnibus-on-ai-enters-into-force-today-102nedo\">appeared in the Official Journal on 24 July 2026 and entered into force on 27 July 2026<\/a>. Two big deadlines moved:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use-based high-risk AI systems (Annex III): from 2 August 2026 to 2 December 2027.<\/li>\n<li>High-risk AI embedded in regulated products (Annex I): from 2 August 2027 to 2 August 2028.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One deadline didn&#8217;t move at all: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joneswalker.com\/en\/insights\/blogs\/ai-law-blog\/yes-august-2-still-matters-the-eu-approved-a-high-risk-ai-delay-but-most-trans.html\">the transparency obligations still take effect on 2 August 2026<\/a>. If you ask an AI chatbot about this and get the old timeline back, you now know why \u2014 the amendment is newer than most models&#8217; training data. The <a href=\"https:\/\/fpf.org\/blog\/the-ai-act-implementation-timeline-what-changes-under-the-ai-omnibus\/\">Future of Privacy Forum&#8217;s updated timeline<\/a> lays out every date.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"is-accounting-ai-a-high-risk-system\">Is accounting AI a high-risk system?<\/h2>\n<p>Generally no. Annex III of the AI Act lists the high-risk use cases exhaustively: systems making hiring decisions, assessing a person&#8217;s creditworthiness, biometric identification, law enforcement uses and similar. Invoice digitization, posting suggestions, payment matching and report drafting are not on that list.<\/p>\n<p>One line was drawn back in February 2025 and hasn&#8217;t moved: emotion recognition in the workplace is a prohibited practice. If a tool promises to &#8220;read your team&#8217;s mood&#8221; from camera or voice, it&#8217;s banned in the EU regardless of any postponed deadlines.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-already-applies-to-your-business\">What already applies to your business?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>AI literacy (since 2 February 2025): if your team uses AI tools, you must make sure the people using them understand what the tools can and can&#8217;t do. For a small business, a short internal training and a clear usage guideline covers it.<\/li>\n<li>Transparency (from 2 August 2026): if your company runs a customer-facing chatbot, people must be able to tell they&#8217;re talking to an AI. AI-generated content shouldn&#8217;t be presented in a way that hides its origin.<\/li>\n<li>GDPR (always): invoices and payroll data contain personal data, and processing them in an AI tool needs the same care as in any other software. That&#8217;s data protection law, not the AI Act, and it was never postponed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"what-should-you-do-if-your-accounting-software-uses-ai\">What should you do if your accounting software uses AI?<\/h2>\n<p>Under the Act you&#8217;re a deployer, not a provider: the heavy obligations sit with your software vendor. On your side, three steps are enough:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Write down which AI tools your company uses and for what.<\/li>\n<li>Keep a human in charge of decisions that matter: AI can post and match, but approval stays with a person.<\/li>\n<li>Ask your software vendor how they handle their AI Act obligations. A serious vendor will have an answer ready.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We&#8217;ve written more about what AI can and can&#8217;t do in bookkeeping in <a href=\"https:\/\/bilnex.io\/ai-raamatupidamine\/\">our guide to AI accounting<\/a>, and about giving AI assistants controlled access to your books in <a href=\"https:\/\/bilnex.io\/en\/mcp-accounting-ai-assistant\/\">MCP for accounting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"summary\">Summary<\/h2>\n<p>Using AI in your accounting doesn&#8217;t put your small business under the AI Act&#8217;s high-risk regime: those rules target very different use cases and were postponed to 2 December 2027 anyway. What matters for you: AI literacy in your team, transparency towards customers from 2 August 2026, and GDPR as always. This is a general overview, not legal advice \u2014 for your specific situation, talk to a lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>Try Bilnex for free e-invoicing and invoice processing.<\/p>\n<h2>FAQ<\/h2>\n<h3>Does the EU AI Act ban using AI in accounting?<\/h3>\n<p>No. Invoice processing, posting suggestions and reporting aren&#8217;t on the Act&#8217;s high-risk list or among its prohibited practices. What is banned, since 2 February 2025, is emotion recognition in the workplace.<\/p>\n<h3>What takes effect on 2 August 2026 under the AI Act?<\/h3>\n<p>The transparency obligations: people must be able to tell when they&#8217;re interacting with an AI, and AI-generated content mustn&#8217;t hide its origin. The high-risk obligations don&#8217;t start that day \u2014 Regulation (EU) 2026\/1744 postponed them to 2 December 2027.<\/p>\n<h3>When do the AI Act&#8217;s high-risk obligations now apply?<\/h3>\n<p>From 2 December 2027 for use-based high-risk systems (Annex III) and from 2 August 2028 for AI embedded in regulated products (Annex I). The postponement entered into force on 27 July 2026 through Regulation (EU) 2026\/1744.<\/p>\n<h3>What does a small business using AI tools actually have to do?<\/h3>\n<p>Three things: ensure your team understands the AI tools it uses (the literacy duty, in force since February 2025), be transparent with customers about chatbots and AI-generated content from 2 August 2026, and follow GDPR when personal data flows through AI tools. 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