General-Purpose AI Code of Practice (EU AI Act, Articles 53 and 55)
Voluntary code of practice published 10 July 2025, drafted by 13 independent experts through a multi-stakeholder process (1,000+ participants) facilitated by the EU AI Office, to help providers of general-purpose AI models demonstrate compliance with EU AI Act Articles 53 and 55. It has three chapters — Transparency, Copyright, and Safety and Security — the first two applying to all GPAI providers and the third only to providers of models with systemic risk. The Commission and AI Board confirmed it as an adequate voluntary compliance tool; signatories (23+, coordinated via a Signatory Taskforce chaired by the AI Office) gain reduced administrative burden and greater legal certainty.
Publisher
European Commission (EU AI Office)
Published
10 Jul 2025
Added
yesterday
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Key Findings
- Transparency chapter includes a Model Documentation Form standardizing the information GPAI providers must make available to the AI Office, national authorities and downstream providers.
- Safety and Security chapter (systemic-risk models only, ~10^25 FLOP threshold) sets commitments on systemic risk assessment, model evaluations including adversarial testing, incident reporting, and cybersecurity — the first operational articulation of frontier-model safety obligations in binding-law context.
- Voluntary but consequential: formally assessed as adequate by the Commission and AI Board, so signature is the lowest-friction path to Article 53/55 compliance; non-signatories must demonstrate compliance by alternative means.
- Marks the first concrete conformity instrument under the AI Act to land, ahead of the still-in-progress CEN-CENELEC harmonised standards for high-risk systems.
Methodology Notes
Not a consensus standard: a soft-law code drafted by independent expert chairs across plenary working groups with 1,000+ stakeholders, published and adequacy-assessed by the European Commission/AI Board. Voluntary signature; compliance presumption effect but no certification. GPAI obligations it supports became applicable 2 August 2025.
Sources
European Commission — The General-Purpose AI Code of Practice (official page) (primary)
Commission press release: General-Purpose AI Code of Practice now available (10 Jul 2025)
Final version text (chairs' publication site) (10 Jul 2025)
Archived snapshot (Wayback Machine) — preserved against link rot
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APA
European Commission (EU AI Office) (2025). General-Purpose AI Code of Practice (EU AI Act, Articles 53 and 55). European Commission (EU AI Office). https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/contents-code-gpai