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EU AI Act Article 50 Transparency Kit
Notice texts and a checklist for the transparency duties of Article 50: chatbot disclosure, synthetic content marking, deepfake and emotion-recognition notices, with the application date from the record.
What's inside
- Document: a notice template for each Article 50 duty, with the duty it serves cited
- Checklist sheet: each duty, applies-from date, owner, status, evidence
- The dates as recorded, with the record's own note where they may be superseded
Dates: Dates are as recorded on the build date. EU AI Act: Dates below follow Article 113 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 (the "Digital Omnibus on AI"), published in the Official Journal on 24 July 2026 and in force from 27 July 2026: the Chapter III high-risk obligations now apply from 2 December 2027 for stand-alone Annex III systems and from 2 August 2028 for AI embedded in Annex I products, while general application and the Article 50 transparency duties kept 2 August 2026. Recorded on 26 September 2026 from concordant secondary reporting; the amending regulation itself has not yet been read against the Official Journal by a reviewer here, so these dates are pending review.
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Sheet: Checklist
| Article 50 duty | Reference | Applies from | Owner | Status ▾ | Evidence | Machine-readable marking in place ▾ | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclose AI interaction and label synthetic content | Article 50 | 2026-08-02 | https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/eu-ai-act-transparency-article-50 | ||||
| Providers of generative AI must mark synthetic output as artificially generated in a machine-readable way | Article 50(2) | 2026-08-02 | https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/eu-ai-act-art-50-2-synthetic-content-marking | ||||
| Deployers of emotion recognition or biometric categorisation must inform exposed persons | Article 50(3) | 2026-08-02 | https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/eu-ai-act-art-50-3-emotion-recognition-notice | ||||
| Deployers must disclose deepfakes and AI-generated text published on matters of public interest | Article 50(4) | 2026-08-02 | https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/eu-ai-act-art-50-4-deepfake-and-public-interest-text-disclosure |
Dates as recorded; see the record for any note that they may be superseded.
Sheet: Transparency duties
| Duty | Category | Instrument | Jurisdiction | Who it binds | Nature | Source reference | Applies from | What it requires | Evidence a reviewer expects | ISO/IEC 42001 | NIST AI RMF | Verification | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provide deployers with clear instructions for use | Transparency and disclosure | EU AI Act | European Union | Provider / developer | Legal requirement | Article 13 | 2026-08-02 | High-risk AI systems must be designed so their operation is sufficiently transparent for deployers to interpret output and use it appropriately, and must be acc | Instructions for use | Annex A controls on information for interested parties | GOVERN 4.x, MAP 1.x | Source-linked | https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/eu-ai-act-transparency-to-deployers |
| Disclose AI interaction and label synthetic content | Transparency and disclosure | EU AI Act | European Union | Provider / developer, Deployer / user organisation | Legal requirement | Article 50 | 2026-08-02 | Providers must ensure AI systems intended to interact with people inform them they are dealing with AI unless obvious; providers of systems generating synthetic | Disclosure and watermarking design record | Annex A control on communication with interested parties | GOVERN 4.x; NIST AI 600-1 content provenance suggestions | Source-linked | https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/eu-ai-act-transparency-article-50 |
| Employers must inform workers and their representatives before using high-risk AI at work | Transparency and disclosure | EU AI Act | European Union | Deployer / user organisation, Public authority / government body | Legal requirement | Article 26(7) | 2026-08-02 | Before putting a high-risk AI system into service or using it at the workplace, a deployer that is an employer must tell the workers' representatives and the af | Worker and works-council notification; Consultation minutes | Annex A.8.5 | GOVERN 5.1, MAP 1.6 | Verified against the official source 26 Sep 2026 | https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/eu-ai-act-art-26-7-worker-information |
| Deployers must tell natural persons that a high-risk AI system is used in decisions about them | Transparency and disclosure | EU AI Act | European Union | Deployer / user organisation, Public authority / government body | Legal requirement | Article 26(11) | 2026-08-02 | Deployers of Annex III high-risk AI systems that take decisions about natural persons, or help take them, must inform those persons that they are subject to the | Affected-person notice template and placement record | Annex A.8.5 | GOVERN 5.1, MANAGE 4.1 | Verified against the official source 26 Sep 2026 | https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/eu-ai-act-art-26-11-notice-to-affected-persons |
| Providers of generative AI must mark synthetic output as artificially generated in a machine-readable way | Transparency and disclosure | EU AI Act | European Union | Provider / developer, General-purpose AI model provider | Legal requirement | Article 50(2) | 2026-08-02 | Providers of AI systems, including general-purpose AI systems, that generate synthetic audio, image, video or text must ensure the output is marked in a machine | Provenance marking design and robustness test report; Output sample with embedded machine-readable mark | Annex A.8.2, A.6.2.4 | MEASURE 2.7, MANAGE 4.1 | Verified against the official source 26 Sep 2026 | https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/eu-ai-act-art-50-2-synthetic-content-marking |
| Deployers of emotion recognition or biometric categorisation must inform exposed persons | Transparency and disclosure | EU AI Act | European Union | Deployer / user organisation, Public authority / government body | Legal requirement | Article 50(3) | 2026-08-02 | A deployer of an emotion recognition system or a biometric categorisation system must inform the natural persons exposed to it that the system is operating and | Exposure notice and signage; Lawful-basis record for biometric processing | Annex A.8.5 | GOVERN 5.1, MEASURE 2.10 | Verified against the official source 26 Sep 2026 | https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/eu-ai-act-art-50-3-emotion-recognition-notice |
Document outline (DOCX)
- What Article 50 requires
- Disclose AI interaction and label synthetic content
- Notice for systems that interact with people
- Providers of generative AI must mark synthetic output as artificially generated in a machine-readable way
- Marking of synthetic content
- Deployers of emotion recognition or biometric categorisation must inform exposed persons
- Notice for systems that interact with people
- Deployers must disclose deepfakes and AI-generated text published on matters of public interest
- Disclosure for deepfakes
Duties this template covers (8)
Each is cited in the file with its source reference and a link back to the record.
- Provide deployers with clear instructions for use
- Disclose AI interaction and label synthetic content
- Employers must inform workers and their representatives before using high-risk AI at work
- Deployers must tell natural persons that a high-risk AI system is used in decisions about them
- Providers of generative AI must mark synthetic output as artificially generated in a machine-readable way
- Deployers of emotion recognition or biometric categorisation must inform exposed persons
- Deployers must disclose deepfakes and AI-generated text published on matters of public interest
- Deployers must explain individual decisions taken with high-risk AI on request
Legal basis
Version history
| Version | Built | Dataset | What changed |
|---|---|---|---|
| v1 | 914895c3103e | First version, built from dataset 914895c3103e. |
Only the latest version is served. A rebuild that changes the content adds a version; a rebuild that does not is skipped.
Frequently asked questions
- Is the EU AI Act Article 50 Transparency Kit free?
- Yes. Download the DOCX and XLSX without an account, under CC BY 4.0. You may use, adapt and share this template, including commercially, with attribution to aipolicytracker.org.
- What is it generated from?
- Version v1 was built on 26 September 2026 from dataset 914895c3103e: 16 recorded duties are cited in it, drawn from 1 instruments. Every row that cites a duty links to the record, and the record links to the official source.
- How will I know when it changes?
- The library is rebuilt daily. When a change to the records reaches this template it gets the next version, a changelog in the version history below, an entry in the AI policy updates hub and the templates feed, and a line in the weekly digest for subscribers of the templates topic.
- Are the dates in it current?
- Dates are as recorded on the build date. EU AI Act: Dates below follow Article 113 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 (the "Digital Omnibus on AI"), published in the Official Journal on 24 July 2026 and in force from 27 July 2026: the Chapter III high-risk obligations now apply from 2 December 2027 for stand-alone Annex III systems and from 2 August 2028 for AI embedded in Annex I products, while general application and the Article 50 transparency duties kept 2 August 2026. Recorded on 26 September 2026 from concordant secondary reporting; the amending regulation itself has not yet been read against the Official Journal by a reviewer here, so these dates are pending review.
- Does completing it make us compliant?
- No. It is an informational resource, not legal advice; it helps produce the evidence a regulator, customer or auditor asks for. Whether a duty applies to you is a judgement the template cannot make.
Informational only, not legal advice. Verify every claim against the linked official sources and consult qualified counsel before acting.
Frequently asked questions
- Is the EU AI Act Article 50 Transparency Kit free?
- Yes. Download the DOCX and XLSX without an account, under CC BY 4.0. You may use, adapt and share this template, including commercially, with attribution to aipolicytracker.org.
- What is it generated from?
- Version v1 was built on 26 September 2026 from dataset 914895c3103e: 16 recorded duties are cited in it, drawn from 1 instruments. Every row that cites a duty links to the record, and the record links to the official source.
- How will I know when it changes?
- The library is rebuilt daily. When a change to the records reaches this template it gets the next version, a changelog in the version history below, an entry in the AI policy updates hub and the templates feed, and a line in the weekly digest for subscribers of the templates topic.
- Are the dates in it current?
- Dates are as recorded on the build date. EU AI Act: Dates below follow Article 113 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 (the "Digital Omnibus on AI"), published in the Official Journal on 24 July 2026 and in force from 27 July 2026: the Chapter III high-risk obligations now apply from 2 December 2027 for stand-alone Annex III systems and from 2 August 2028 for AI embedded in Annex I products, while general application and the Article 50 transparency duties kept 2 August 2026. Recorded on 26 September 2026 from concordant secondary reporting; the amending regulation itself has not yet been read against the Official Journal by a reviewer here, so these dates are pending review.
- Does completing it make us compliant?
- No. It is an informational resource, not legal advice; it helps produce the evidence a regulator, customer or auditor asks for. Whether a duty applies to you is a judgement the template cannot make.