Limited Article 50 legacy-system grace period ends

The limited transition for machine-readable marking by certain systems placed on the market before August closes.

Event typedeadline

This update belongs to AI Act · Article 50. Read the parent policy page for the full instrument.

What changed

Fact

The deadline does not defer all Article 50 obligations. It applies narrowly to specified marking and detection duties for pre-existing systems.

The limited transition for machine-readable marking by certain systems placed on the market before August closes.

Analysis

Closes the remaining transition identified in the Commission’s Article 50 guidance.

The consequence statement is limited to what the linked evidence and event record support.

Fact

Exact quotes below are taken from evidence rows attached to this update.

Article 50 transparency duties entered into application. The Commission states that Article 50 applies from 2 August 2026.

Article 50 of the AI Act applies as from 2 August 2026.
Commission FAQ · application date

The date alone does not describe every duty or identify the limited transition available to certain pre-existing systems.

An update page records a dated change. It does not replace the full vehicle text or later amendments.

Governments require disclosure in different forms. Technical duties, responsible actors and enforcement models still diverge.

Require covered providers to attach detectable technical provenance markers to synthetic or materially altered content.

Article 50 establishes transparency duties for specified AI interactions and synthetic or manipulated content.

Source basis

The Commission states that Article 50 applies from 2 August 2026.

Article 50 of the AI Act applies as from 2 August 2026.

European Commission · Commission FAQ · application date