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EU AI Act — Article 50 Exposure Check
Article 50 is the transparency article: it decides when you have to tell a person they're dealing with AI, and when AI-made content has to carry a mark. It applies from 2 August 2026. This tells you which paragraphs bite you and what you'd have to show. You are scored on exposure, never on compliance.
Legal state as at 2026-07-31. Reflects Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 as amended by the Digital Omnibus on AI. The Omnibus postponed the high-risk obligations and left Article 50 in place. This is general information, not legal advice. It does not tell you whether you comply — no self-assessment can. Confirm your obligations with qualified counsel. Stage A Six questions. They decide what the rest of the page asks you — most teams get scope wrong before they get anything else wrong. Does any output of any AI system you run reach a person in the EU? Customers, prospects, employees, or the public. Include content published to an open website. Include systems hosted entirely outside the EU. Article 2(1)(c) reaches providers and deployers outside the EU where the output is used in the Union. US-hosted, US-incorporated and US-staffed does not put you outside it.Scope
This tells you where you're exposed — not whether you comply.
No self-assessment produces a legal conclusion. It doesn't test whether your disclosures actually fire in every path, whether your marking survives re-encoding, or whether your records would hold up under an authority's questions. If Stage A triggered anything and Stage B turned up gaps — particularly if BX.1 came back No — the next step is an inventory of what's actually calling a model in production, with role and modality per system. That's the first deliverable of the AI Agent Production-Readiness Audit: findings ranked by risk, a gap map against a reference control architecture, and a remediation roadmap your team can execute. Fixed scope, fixed price, starts within a week.
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Penalties. Up to €15,000,000 or 3% of total worldwide annual turnover, whichever is higher (Art 99(4)), enforced by national market surveillance authorities. Article 50 applies on the basis of a transparency gap, not a risk classification — a customer-service chatbot is not high-risk and never will be, and Article 50 still binds it. Self-assessment only; nothing you enter leaves this page except the email you choose to submit. This is general information, not legal advice. It does not tell you whether you comply — no self-assessment can. Confirm your obligations with qualified counsel.