Sovereign regulatory grace periods collapse the moment active enforcement bureaus levy their first statutory fines.
The transition from soft voluntary compliance to active administrative penalty regimes exposes non-compliant enterprises to immediate financial and operational liabilities.
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The expiration of the EU AI Act's grace period exposes general-purpose AI developers to immediate administrative audits and severe turnover-based fines.
The transition to active enforcement under the EU AI Act immediately exposed non-compliant corporations to multi-million-euro administrative fines.
The shortage-era grace that let compounded GLP-1 copies proliferate collapses into active manufacturing enforcement against the largest compounder.