# Erratum: AI-literacy supervision date

**Dated:** 2 August 2026 · **Corrects:** [2026-08-02-eu-ai-act-application-status.md](2026-08-02-eu-ai-act-application-status.md) · **Status:** informational; not legal advice.

**What the published brief says:** that national supervision and
enforcement of the Article 4 AI-literacy duty begins 2 August 2026 —
stated without qualification, in the prose, the consolidated
timeline, and the crosswalk row.

**What the primary source says:** both dates. The European
Commission's AI-literacy Q&A (last updated 19 November 2025) is
internally inconsistent across two adjacent answers in its
enforcement section: the first states that "the supervision and
enforcement rules apply from 3 August 2026 onwards"; the next states
that the national market surveillance authorities will start
supervising and enforcing the rules as of 2 August 2026. Legal
commentary has repeated the 3 August formulation.

**What the Regulation says:** Article 113, as amended by Regulation
(EU) 2026/1744, sets general application from 2 August 2026; no
3 August 2026 date appears in that article. On the Regulation's text
alone, supervision powers exist from 2 August 2026.

**Resolution:** the published brief's date stands as the reading
supported by the Regulation's text. What this erratum corrects is
the unqualified certainty: the brief presented a date that its
source layer states two different ways. The conflict is now part of
the record. If the Commission harmonises its Q&A, a later dated
brief will record which formulation survived.

**How it happened:** the brief's original draft carried 3 August,
sourced from the Q&A's first formulation via secondary commentary.
Pre-publication review changed it to 2 August — outside the agreed
repair scope — matching the Q&A's second formulation and the
Regulation's application date. Two reviewers each "confirmed"
opposite dates from the same page; neither qualified the claim.
That, not the date, is the defect this erratum records. The same
review pass also added the Article 50(2) transitional period —
generative systems on the market before 2 August 2026 have until
2 December 2026 to meet the machine-readable marking requirement —
which was verified correct against the Commission's Article 50 FAQ
and stands. All of it is recorded in the claims ledger, entry 8.

**Why an erratum rather than an edit:** published briefs in this
series are never rewritten; corrections accrue as dated follow-ups
that reference their predecessors. This is the convention's first
exercise, one day into its existence.

## Sources

- [European Commission, AI Literacy — Questions & Answers](https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/faqs/ai-literacy-questions-answers):
  enforcement section, adjacent answers stating 3 August 2026 and
  2 August 2026. Last update 19 November 2025.
- Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 113, as amended by
  [Regulation (EU) 2026/1744](http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2026/1744/oj):
  general application from 2 August 2026.
- [European Commission, Transparency obligations under Article 50 of the AI Act (FAQ)](https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/faqs/transparency-obligations-under-article-50-ai-act):
  Article 50(2) grace period to 2 December 2026 for systems placed
  on the market before 2 August 2026.
- Retrieved and verified 2 August 2026.