EN 18286 has been approved — the first European standard built for the AI Act. But approval isn't citation, and citation is what triggers the Article 40 presumption of conformity. SOURCE 0 seals what your QMS was, and since when, in the interval between the two.

Trust & Check, EU Customs Data Hub, presumed importer, Union Handling Fee: 15 questions on EU customs reform vocabulary. SOURCE 0 seals the data before its transmission to customs authorities. 

Trust & Check, EU Customs Data Hub, importateur présumé, Union Handling Fee : 15 questions sur le vocabulaire de la réforme douanière de l'UE. SOURCE 0 scelle la donnée avant sa transmission aux autorités.

Since 2026, the EU customs union has been undergoing its most radical transformation since 1968. Between the already effective abolition of the €150 exemption, the upcoming rollout of the EU Customs Data Hub, and the rise of the elite "Trust & Check" status, executives must audit their Sincérité today. Stop managing forms — master your data to protect your liability.

Since December 2023, French courts have substantively reviewed companies' vigilance plans — not rubber-stamped them. But every review examines whatever document the company presents today. Nothing independently fixes what the plan said before the claim was filed.

EUDR imposes recurring evidentiary obligations on operators and traders of cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, rubber, soya and wood products. Each produces a record only the obligated party controls. This Vocabulary fixes twenty of those obligations against their exact article in Regulation (EU) 2023/1115.

MiCA imposes recurring evidentiary obligations on crypto-asset issuers and service providers. Each produces a record only the obligated party controls. This Vocabulary fixes twenty-seven of those obligations against their exact article in Regulation (EU) 2023/1114.

A machine-readable vocabulary covering AI Act obligations for providers (Art. 9-17, 43, 53, 55), deployers (Art. 26), importers and distributors (Art. 23-24), and transparency/watermarking (Art. 50) — one hundred questions, each closing on what independent, pre-execution proof adds that self-generated internal records cannot.

A machine-readable vocabulary covering NIS 2 governance (Art. 20), technical and organizational measures (Art. 21.2 a–j), incident reporting (Art. 23), network architecture controls, and supervision/enforcement (Art. 32–34) — one hundred questions, each closing on what independent, pre-execution proof adds that self-generated internal records cannot.

Under the EU Deforestation Regulation, national authorities already cross-check submitted coordinates against satellite imagery. That proves the state of the land. It does not prove that the specific batch of beans, timber, or cattle in a given shipment was ever physically on it.

Two of the largest EU merger cases of 2026 turn on the same regulation: what foreign financial contributions a party received over three years. Both are answered from the same source — the recipient's own accounting.

With days remaining before Article 50's transparency obligations take effect, the question for a DPO, CISO, or AI compliance officer is no longer what the law requires. It is what can still be independently fixed about current practice before the deadline arrives.

Two Cornell computer scientists gave the same incident two different readings within one statement: no reason to think the details are wrong, and no way to be sure they aren't shaped by the telling. Both readings are correct, because nothing outside OpenAI's own account fixed what happened before OpenAI chose how to tell it.

A postponement everyone expects is not the same as a postponement that has happened. Until the Digital Omnibus is published in the Official Journal, Articles 9 to 15 of the AI Act still apply from 2 August 2026 exactly as written.

Article 9 of Directive (EU) 2024/2853 presumes a product defective if the manufacturer won't hand over technical evidence. That closes the refusal problem. It leaves untouched a narrower one: whether the evidence handed over was dated before the dispute began. 

The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism already has an independent verifier — the definitive regime made sure of that. What the verifier attests is a methodology over a reporting period, not the embedded emissions of the specific lot an importer clears today. SOURCE 0 closes that narrower gap.

Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2092 evaluates a Member State using courts, auditors, OLAF, GRECO — never the state's own word. One narrow provision breaks that pattern: the follow-up report on whether beneficiaries were actually paid. SOURCE 0 closes that one gap.

 Non-compliance with Article 50 of the AI Act falls under Article 99, paragraph 4, point (g) — up to 15 million euros or 3% of worldwide turnover. The actual amount depends on factors the operator must prove, not declare: measures implemented, absence of intent, cooperation. Without a sealing third party, these proofs remain produced by the very operator under investigation.

The same proposal that requires a qualified technical body to certify a satellite's environmental footprint asks nothing of the sort for its incident reports. Self-detection, self-logging, self-declaration. SOURCE 0 fixes the record before the operator writes it.

 A certified sustainability claim is not the same as a provable one. Directive (EU) 2024/825 puts the burden of proof on the advertiser — not the certifier. SOURCE 0 closes the gap between verification and timing.