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Article 50 transparency guidelines

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    C(2026) 5054 final. Approved draft annex.

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Official metadata

Official title
Guidelines on the implementation of the transparency obligations for certain AI systems under Article 50 of the AI Act
Official reference
C(2026) 5054 final
Document type
Guidelines
Document date
2026-07-20
Document date kind
Document issue
Document-date evidence
European Commission · Exact annex cover: 'Brussels, 20.7.2026' and 'C(2026) 5054 final'. — Establishes 2026-07-20 as the exact annex version's document issue date.
Publication date
2026-07-20
Publication-date evidence
European Commission · Commission library field 'Publication 20 July 2026' beside the exact guideline download 131215 and separate approval-communication download 131214. — Establishes 2026-07-20 as the official publication represented by the primary official release for this exact annex version.
Version label
Approved draft annex
Legal status
Non binding
Language
en

Research classifications

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Record level
Attachment
Version status
Draft
Temporal collection
Contemporary EU AI policy
Relevance class
Direct AI relevance
Policy stage
Implementation
Corpus tier
Core
Sectors
  • General cross sector
Policy membership
  • AI Act implementation
  • AI transparency
  • EU AI policy pathway

Classification evidence

  • Relevance class: Direct AI relevance · European Commission · Exact annex title and paragraphs 3-5: implementation of transparency obligations for certain AI systems under Article 50 of the AI Act. — The artifact directly interprets and operationalises AI Act obligations.
  • Sector tags: General cross sector · European Commission · Exact annex title and scope paragraphs address providers and deployers of the AI systems covered by Article 50 without limiting the guidance to one economic sector. — The retained tag reflects the artifact's horizontal AI-policy scope.
  • Provenance tags: Authored by an EU institution · European Commission · Exact cover names EUROPEAN COMMISSION and identifies the file as the annex to the Commission communication. — The exact institutional artifact supports Commission authorship.
  • Provenance tags: Officially published · European Commission · Commission library field 'Publication 20 July 2026' and exact official download 131215. — The exact version is released through an official Commission endpoint.

Production provenance

Provenance tags
  • Authored by an EU institution
  • Officially published
Named bibliographic authors
None recorded after review
Institutions and roles
  • European Commission · Author · role evidence · Cover: 'EUROPEAN COMMISSION', 'C(2026) 5054 final', and 'ANNEX to the COMMUNICATION TO THE COMMISSION' approving the content of the draft Article 50 guidelines.

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Research assessment

Inclusion rationale
Official Commission guidance directly operationalising Article 50 transparency obligations for AI providers and deployers.
Researcher notes
Exact-file review identifies this stable route as the content-approved draft annex published on 20 July 2026. The separate approval communication says formal adoption will occur later. The legacy slug is retained; it does not assert that this artifact is formally adopted final guidance.
Review status
verified

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Verification

Expanded evidence review
Verified
Reviewed by
Yichen Hao
Evidence review date
2026-09-05T20:37:18.537Z

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  • Last verified: 2026-09-05T19:57:42Z · Freshly retrieved exact 2-page official PDF (178,569 bytes; SHA-256 ea1a6d960a52d8532a068b8338622d1868616ce6b5bf2540dfef7a2378eb7c8c). Cover and approval paragraphs state C(2026) 5054 final, content approval on 20 July 2026, and formal adoption of the guidelines later. No archive or first-ever-publication claim is made.
  • Last verified: 2026-09-05T19:57:42Z · Freshly retrieved exact 51-page official PDF (837,633 bytes; SHA-256 30861fc5de31205846f023068069c92fabc7271ebeac6af7bef68b97f0a33f66). The cover identifies the content-approved draft guidelines as the annex to C(2026) 5054; paragraphs 3-5 establish Article 50 scope and non-binding status. No archive or formal-adoption claim is made.
  • Last verified: 2026-09-05T20:37:18.537Z · Official page field 'Publication 20 July 2026' presents exact separate downloads 131215 (guidelines annex) and 131214 (approval communication). Fresh exact-file review on 5 September 2026 establishes that the former is the content-approved draft annex and the latter says formal adoption will occur later. Prior retrieval history is retained; no archive or formal-adoption claim is made.

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