EU AI Act — the facts we operate on
One canonical, openly-published source of truth. Every LedgerProof surface reads these exact figures, so they never drift. Machine-readable for any tool: /facts/eu-ai-act.json.
These are publicly observable regulatory facts, provided for orientation. They are not legal advice and not a determination of compliance. Consult qualified counsel.
Penalties (tiered)
| Maximum fine | Applies to |
|---|---|
| €35,000,000 or 7% (Art. 99(3)) Prohibited AI practices | Non-compliance with the Article 5 prohibitions (e.g. social scoring, manipulative or exploitative AI, certain biometric categorisation and real-time remote biometric identification). |
| €15,000,000 or 3% (Art. 99(4)) Article 50 Operator obligations (incl. Article 50 transparency) | Non-compliance with obligations other than Article 5 by providers, deployers, importers, distributors and notified bodies — including the Article 50 transparency obligations and the high-risk obligations. |
| €7,500,000 or 1% (Art. 99(5)) Incorrect or misleading information to authorities | Supplying incorrect, incomplete or misleading information to notified bodies or national competent authorities in reply to a request. |
| €15,000,000 or 3% (Art. 101) General-purpose AI model providers | Fines the Commission may impose on providers of general-purpose AI models. |
For SMEs and start-ups, the applicable fine is the LOWER of the percentage or the fixed amount (Art. 99(6)).
Key dates
| Date | What applies |
|---|---|
| 2024-08-01 | The EU AI Act entered into force. |
| 2025-02-02 | Article 5 prohibitions and AI-literacy obligations began to apply. |
| 2025-08-02 | General-purpose AI model rules, governance, and the penalty provisions began to apply. |
| 2026-08-02 | Article 50 transparency obligations and most high-risk obligations apply. This is the scanner's countdown anchor. this scanner |
| 2026-12-02 | Transition deadline (per the May 2026 Digital Omnibus provisional agreement) for the Article 50(2) machine-readable marking obligation, for generative systems already on the market before 2 August 2026. |
| 2027-08-02 | High-risk obligations apply to AI that is itself a regulated product (Annex I) already subject to third-party conformity assessment. |
Article 50 — Transparency obligations for providers and deployers of certain AI systems
Enforcement: 2026-08-02. The Article 50(2) machine-readable marking obligation has a transition to 2 December 2026 for generative systems already on the market before 2 August 2026; new systems comply from 2 August 2026.
| Provision | Obligation |
|---|---|
| Art. 50(1) | AI systems that interact directly with people must inform them they are interacting with an AI, unless it is obvious to a reasonably informed person. |
| Art. 50(2) | Providers of systems generating synthetic audio, image, video or text must mark outputs as artificially generated or manipulated, in a machine-readable form. |
| Art. 50(3) | Deployers of emotion-recognition or biometric-categorisation systems must inform the people exposed to them. |
| Art. 50(4) | Deployers of deepfakes, and of AI-generated text published to inform the public on matters of public interest, must disclose that the content is artificially generated or manipulated. |
| Art. 50(5) | The information must be provided clearly and distinguishably, at the latest at the first interaction or exposure. |
Source of truth last reviewed 2026-06-13. Regulation (EU) 2024/1689.