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Applies from 2 August 2026

Article 50 is about to change your meetings

The EU AI Act's transparency obligations apply from 2 August 2026. If AI joins your meetings — notetakers, transcription, summaries — the people in them have a right to know. This guide explains the obligation and how to prepare.

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Does Article 50 apply to your meetings?

Work through the checklist. If you answer yes to any item, the transparency duty is worth taking seriously.

  • Does an AI notetaker or assistant join your calls?

    Article 50(1): people interacting with an AI system must be informed they are doing so, unless it is obvious from context.

  • Do you use AI transcription or voice processing?

    Processing a participant's voice through an AI system is an interaction the participant should be told about — before it starts, not after.

  • Do you circulate AI-generated summaries or minutes?

    Article 50(4): AI-generated content addressed to people should be identifiable as such. A summary that reads like human minutes is exactly the case.

  • Do external participants join — clients, candidates, students, patients?

    The duty is owed to the people exposed to the AI system, not just your employees. External participants are the ones least likely to know your tools.

A disclosure is only as good as its record

Telling participants is the duty. Proving you told them is what a regulator, opposing counsel, or your own compliance team will ask for. A transparency posture needs three things:

  • A disclosure shown to every participant before the AI interaction starts — naming the system and what it does
  • A decision captured from each participant, not a banner they may not have seen
  • A durable, tamper-evident record of both, exportable when someone asks

How Overturo supports this

Overturo shows each participant a disclosure card for every AI purpose in a meeting — what runs, what it does — and captures their decision before the meeting starts. Every decision becomes a cryptographically signed, tamper-evident record you can export per meeting and hand to whoever is asking. The disclosure posture for your meetings is included in your evidence exports.

What this page is not

This guide is general information, not legal advice, and using any tool does not by itself satisfy a legal obligation. What Overturo produces is the disclosure and the record of it; whether your specific use of AI falls under Article 50 is a question for your counsel.

The dates that matter

  1. 1 August 2024 The EU AI Act entered into force.
  2. 2 August 2026 The transparency obligations of Article 50 apply.

Prepare before August 2

Set up disclosure and consent for your meetings this week — the free plan is enough to see the record.

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