Article 50 wizard
Which transparency duty applies to your setup.
Article 50 of the EU AI Act has applied since 2 August 2026. It is a transparency duty: people are told when they are dealing with an AI system, and synthetic output is marked as such. Answer six questions and the outcome updates as you go.
Last reviewed: 6 October 2026
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What applies
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Answer the questions on the left and the duties appear here, one card each.
This is an estimate based on six answers, not legal advice. Article 50 is a transparency duty, not a ban. Nothing here says a deployment is unlawful.
The law behind the questions
A transparency duty, in force, with two details most pages miss.
Article 50 asks for disclosure: the person knows an AI system is involved, and synthetic output is marked. It does not forbid the deployment, it does not require a specific vendor, and it does not require a certificate. There is no harmonised standard for it either, so no vendor can be certified for it.
Two details from the Commission guidelines of 20 July 2026: a full provenance chain is not mandatory (point 73), and for SMEs and start-ups the ceiling is the lower of the two amounts the Regulation names, not the higher (point 152).
And one from the Digital Omnibus (EU) 2026/1744, in force 27 July 2026: it inserted Article 111(4), so a system already on the market before 2 August 2026 has to satisfy Article 50(2) from 2 December 2026 rather than immediately.
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Disclosure is the duty. The record is what remains.
Knowing which paragraph applies is one thing; the evidence record holds the approved disclosure text, the language and when its audio finished being sent — that is the other. For governed interactions a receipt is visible in the product, with values you can recompute yourself. Production export worked when it was retested on 26 August 2026 after the deploy (measured on browser calls rather than over a telephone line).