The EU AI Act's transparency rules apply from 2 August 2026. A one-off check will not prove you stayed compliant.
Regula Article 50 Monitor is a planned service that rechecks your chatbot disclosures and AI content labels on a schedule, keeps a dated evidence file you can hand to a client or a regulator, and flags when official guidance changes something you rely on.
This product is in development. We are opening founding places to decide whether to build it. Nothing here is a finished service today.
What Article 50 requires, in broad terms
- Systems that interact directly with people must make clear that the person is dealing with AI, unless that is already obvious (Article 50(1)).
- Providers of generative AI must ensure synthetic audio, image, video and text output is marked as artificially generated in a machine readable way (Article 50(2)).
- Deployers must visibly label deep fakes, and disclose AI generated text published to inform the public on matters of public interest (Article 50(4)).
- People exposed to emotion recognition or biometric categorisation systems must be informed (Article 50(3)).
- Fines for non-compliance run up to EUR 15 million or 3 percent of worldwide annual turnover, whichever is higher.
- These duties apply from 2 August 2026. They are not limited to high-risk systems, there is no small-business exemption from the duties, and open-source licensing does not exempt a system in scope. UK companies serving EU users can be in scope.
- One narrow deferral exists: for generative systems already on the market before 2 August 2026, the machine readable marking duty in Article 50(2) applies from 2 December 2026. New systems get no grace period.
- Content both generated and published before 2 August 2026 does not need retroactive labelling.
The gap
One-off Article 50 checkers exist, and some are free. They answer whether a disclosure looks right today. The job left over is proving, week after week, that your disclosures are still live, still correct, and still aligned with current guidance, with a record to show for it. That is the job this monitor is being built for.
Founding places
Founding access is limited to 20 places. A founding place costs a GBP 29 deposit, credited as your first month at launch. The planned price is GBP 29 per month. Your deposit is refundable in full at any time before launch, and refunded automatically if we have not launched by 30 September 2026.