Plan the work

What it’s for

The Compliance Timeline lists the compliance tasks, each with its legal deadline. It works backwards from each deadline to a suggested target date, counts down the days, and gives every task an owner and a status.

What you fill in

1. 1

   Compliance Timeline workbook

   Two tabs: Instructions and Timeline.

2. 2

   Tasks and deadlines

   Each row is one task with its category and legal deadline. Most deadlines are 13 May 2027. Consent Manager registration is 13 November 2026, and only applies if your business is a Consent Manager.

3. 3

   Dates and countdown

   A suggested target date and a countdown in days are calculated from each legal deadline, so you can see how much runway is left.

4. 4

   Make it yours

   Add an owner, your own target date and a status for every task, in the order your gaps call for.

From the video

Two frames from the walkthrough. The worked example is a fictional online store.

Basis Rule 1(4); Rule 1(3). How we arrived here