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EU AI Act Article 50 checklist

AI content disclosure

See which Article 50 points may apply to you.

Try the checklist
The film: the checklist in 25 seconds. Illustrative example. For a qualified adviser to review; not legal advice.
What the film shows, in words
  1. See which Article 50 points may apply to you.
  2. You deploy a chatbot that also generates images.
  3. 1 point may apply: Article 50(1), via your provider.
  4. If it also creates deepfakes: 2 points.
  5. If you also supply the system: 3 points.
  6. Dated the day you run it. For a qualified adviser to review.

The demo: the worked example, one change at a time

ExampleFor a qualified adviser to review. Not legal advice.

Step 1 of 4

You deploy a chatbot that also generates images.

Worked example: an agency deploying a chatbot and generating images for EU clients.

As providerNot your plate

One mark here is read from the deployer’s side.

Give the information clearly and distinguishably, at the latest at the first interaction or exposure, and in an accessible way. The rail is added whenever any point applies, and is not counted.

As deployerYour plate

  • Article 50(1), via your providerConfirm with your provider how people are told they are interacting with AI, and keep that confirmation.Read through your own glass: the mark sits on the provider’s plate.

Role assessed: Deployer. 1 point may apply: “Article 50(1), via your provider”, read through the front plate. The rail, Article 50(5), is lit. “Generates images, audio, video or text” etches nothing for a deployer on this checklist: its seat is on the provider’s plate.

point may apply
1
role assessed
Deployer
checklist dated
the day you run it

a point that may apply: a mark, never “met” a mark read through the other glass an empty seat your plate, lit at its foot

Now your own system, plate by plate.

Tell us your role and what your AI system produces or does. The checklist lists the Article 50 transparency points that may apply, with the paragraph each comes from, dated for review by a qualified adviser.

Which checklist
Your role for this system

Whether you are a provider or deployer can be a legal question; take advice when unsure.

What the system doesSelect all that apply
Does it reach people in the EU?

The checklist, in full.

The worked example’s answers. Dated when you run it.

1obligations that may apply
Deployerrole assessed
when you run itchecklist dated

Article 50 transparency checklist

Article 50(1), via your provider

  • Confirm with your provider how people are told they are interacting with AI, and keep that confirmation.
  • Keep your own notice in place where you configure the conversation.

Article 50(5): how the information is given

  • Give the information clearly and distinguishably, at the latest at the first interaction or exposure, and in an accessible way.

Before you rely on this

  • Check: Dates and details can change.Article 50 applies from 2 August 2026. The Digital Omnibus on AI (Regulation (EU) 2026/1744) postponed the Article 50(2) marking duty to 2 December 2026. Check the current text and Commission guidance before publication.

An evidence checklist for review by a qualified adviser. It is not legal advice and gives no compliance badge.

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  1. Article 50(1), via your provider
  2. Article 50(5): how the information is given

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How the plates are read, and their limits.

The mapping is published so you can check it. A mark means “may apply”. It never means “met”, and the page gives no badge.

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One mark, on the other side, confirmed through the glass.

Method

  1. 01

    The questions map to Article 50(1) to 50(5) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689: provider duties for interaction notices and machine-readable marking, deployer duties for emotion recognition, deepfakes and public-interest text.

  2. 02

    The editorial-responsibility and artistic-work exceptions are applied only where you confirm them.

  3. 03

    Every checklist is dated on the day you run it.

What it cannot tell you

  • It covers Article 50 only, not the rest of the AI Act.
  • Whether you are a provider or deployer can be a legal question; take advice when unsure.
  • Check current law and guidance before relying on it.

Quality ruleCheck current primary law before publication; no blanket compliant badge.

Where each point sits

For each option of “What the system does”: its seat, its plate and the heading the tool gives it
What the system doesSeatPlateThe tool’s heading
Talks or chats with people 50(1) As provider Article 50(1): people must know they are interacting with AIFor the other role alone: “Article 50(1), via your provider”, read through its own glass.
Generates images, audio, video or text 50(2) As provider Article 50(2): machine-readable marking of synthetic output
Creates realistic content showing real people, places or events 50(4) As deployer Article 50(4): disclose deepfakes
Publishes AI text informing the public on matters of public interest 50(4) As deployer Article 50(4): AI text on matters of public interest
Recognises emotions or categorises people by biometric data 50(3) As deployer Article 50(3): inform people exposed to emotion recognition or biometric categorisation

The rail both plates stand in is “Article 50(5): how the information is given”. The tool adds it whenever any point applies and does not count it. This table is the tool’s own mapping, shown as such: check current law and guidance before relying on it.

The other view: common safeguards.

A separate list, for any country. It is not part of the Article 50 mapping above, and nothing from that mapping is shown in it.

How the list is read

  1. 01

    Twelve common safeguards, each our own proposed practice and labelled so. They are the same in every country.

  2. 02

    A country module adds what that country’s law says, each statement with the section it was read from, the official address, the date it was read and who read it. Reviewed today: Ghana and Nigeria. Any other country gets the common safeguards, and the missing coverage is named.

  3. 03

    You mark the evidence for each item: seen, reported, not in place or unknown. The result counts each, lists what is not in place and what is unknown, and says what to gather next. Nothing is added up into a rating.

What it cannot tell you

  • The common safeguards are recommendations, not duties. Following all twelve does not show that any law is met.
  • A country module states what the text says, with its section. It does not decide whether that law applies to you.
  • The page sees no evidence. “Seen” is your own record.
  • No EU rule is shown as another country’s duty. The EU AI Act’s transparency points are in the other view of this tool.

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