Spain's AI bill and AI labels: in Congress, not law yet

No. Spain's Organic Law Bill for the good use and governance of artificial intelligence is still in parliament. Press reports say the Council of Ministers approved it on 26 May 2026, and a law-firm alert says it began its passage through Congress on 12 June 2026, with amendments accepted until 30 June. Until it passes, the labelling duty that applies to AI video in Spain is the EU's own, in Article 50 of the AI Act.

These facts come from news and commentary, not the bill's text, which I did not read: Finreg360, SapientiaDEV and Economist & Jurist, all read on 2026-10-03. It is not legal advice.

What does the bill add to the EU rule?

SapientiaDEV describes it as adding enforcement machinery and national penalties rather than new material requirements, and says the EU regulation's obligations already apply now. Economist & Jurist says the bill covers identification of AI-generated content, notice to people who interact with automated systems and marking of synthetic outputs, and gives general penalty tiers rather than a separate sanction for a labelling failure. For when the EU duty bites on older systems, see the 2 December 2026 grace period.

What about the 2025 draft with the 35 million euro fines?

That was an earlier text. Euronews reported on 12 March 2025 that the cabinet had adopted a draft on 11 March 2025, fining incorrect labelling of AI content between 7.5 and 35 million euros, or 2 to 7% of global turnover, with lighter penalties possible for startups and medium-sized firms. The tiers in the table above are from the 2026 bill; do not mix the two when you quote a figure.

What should I check on the file before it ships to Spain?

Marking, if you rely on it, is a property of the file you deliver, not of the tool that made it. Sume's docs do not say a video output carries a C2PA record or watermark, which an earlier post covers, so test the file you ship rather than assume it. Sume's video trim shows why the file changes: precision: "exact" is a frame-accurate re-encode (libx264, yuv420p), while keyframe is a stream copy whose cut may start a GOP early. Each trim returns a new MP4 and leaves the source untouched.

So run your marking check on the output of the last step, not on the first render. Content Credentials after download shows how, and the transparency Code of Practice versus the Article 50 guidelines sorts which text asks what. For a reviewer's read of the finished cut, video inspect returns stills and an optional transcript without producing a new file.