The Digital Omnibus on AI, formally known as Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, was signed on July 8, 2026, published in the Official Journal on July 24, 2026, and entered into force on July 27, 2026, just six days before the AI Act’s original August 2, 2026 high-risk deadline. It defers the application date for stand-alone high-risk…
The Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content is a voluntary compliance framework developed by independent experts through a multi-stakeholder process facilitated by the AI Office, covering the marking and labelling obligations in Article 50(2), (4), and (5). The drafting process moved through several stages: a first draft was published on December 17, 2025,…
Article 50(2) requires providers of AI systems that generate synthetic audio, image, video, or text content to ensure their outputs are marked in a machine-readable format, detectable as artificially generated. This obligation, along with the rest of Article 50, became applicable on August 2, 2026. A narrower transitional allowance was granted specifically for this marking…