IN SHORT
- We are the provider of the studio and of Vera. You are the provider or deployer of the system you build.
- The transparency duties in Article 50 applied from 2 August 2026 and were not postponed.
- High-risk obligations for Annex III systems moved to 2 December 2027.
- The platform gives you a per-project record of AI use and a human in the loop by construction.
Who is responsible for what
We state that plainly because the alternative — a supplier implying its certificate covers your use — is how companies discover the gap during an inspection rather than before one.
| The thing | Who we are | Who you are |
|---|---|---|
| Vera, the consultant on this website | Ours entirely. The disclosure duty is ours and we meet it. | Nothing. You are a visitor. |
| The studio you build in | We put it on the market under our name, so its own transparency duties are ours. | You are its deployer inside your business. |
| The system you build with it | Nothing. We supply the tooling; we do not operate your system. | You are its provider, its deployer, or both. Every duty attaching to that system attaches to you. |
Where the deadlines actually stand
The practical reading: the high-risk regime bought sixteen more months, and the transparency duties did not. Fines run to €35m or 7% of worldwide turnover for a prohibited practice, and €15m or 3% for transparency and high-risk breaches, with a lower ceiling for smaller companies.
| Date | What applies |
|---|---|
| 2 Feb 2025 — passed | Prohibited practices (Art. 5) and the AI literacy duty (Art. 4). |
| 2 Aug 2025 — passed | Rules for general-purpose AI models, the governance structure, and penalties. |
| 2 Aug 2026 — in force now | The main body of the Act, including the Art. 50 transparency duties. These were not postponed. |
| 2 Dec 2026 | Grace period ends for marking AI-generated content in systems already on the market. New prohibition on NCII and CSAM takes effect. |
| 2 Dec 2027 | High-risk obligations for the stand-alone systems in Annex III — moved back from 2 August 2026. |
| 2 Aug 2028 | High-risk obligations for AI embedded in products already covered by EU product-safety law (Annex I). |
What we do on our side
- You are told Vera is an AI before the microphone is ever requested, in the panel, in the language you are reading — the Art. 50(1) interaction duty.
- No emotion recognition and no biometric identification anywhere on the site. Art. 50(3) does not arise because the thing it governs is not there.
- No audio is recorded. Written transcripts are kept 90 days so we can correct where Vera fell short, and then deleted.
- No deepfakes and no synthetic media of real people, on the site or in the product.
What the platform gives you toward your own obligations
- A record of AI use, per project: which vendor and model answered, how many requests, how many tokens, what it cost, day by day. Ask and we will extract it for an audit or for a customer of yours.
- A person in the loop by construction. The studio writes software; it does not push it live on its own. That is the shape Art. 14 asks for, and here it is the only shape available.
- Data in the EU, with the model processing as the named exception, under standard contractual clauses.
- A written description of the technical basis under your application, if your compliance file needs one.
What this page is not
It is not legal advice. Where your situation is close to a line — an HR screening tool, anything touching credit or insurance, anything used on people who did not choose to be — the answer comes from your counsel, not from a supplier’s website.