Gen­er­al-Pur­pose AI Code of Prac­tice published

Back­ground

Pub­lished on 10 July 2025, the Gen­er­al-Pur­pose AI Code of Prac­tice is a vol­un­tary frame­work draft­ed by inde­pen­dent experts to help providers of gen­er­al-pur­pose AI (GPAI) mod­els meet key oblig­a­tions under the EU AI Act on safe­ty, trans­paren­cy, and copyright.

Chap­ters

• Trans­paren­cy: A user-friend­ly Mod­el Doc­u­men­ta­tion Form to detail mod­el capa­bil­i­ties, lim­i­ta­tions, gov­er­nance, and data prove­nance (Arti­cle 53).
• Copy­right: Prac­ti­cal tem­plates and guid­ance for estab­lish­ing and doc­u­ment­ing copy­right-com­pli­ance poli­cies cov­er­ing train­ing data, licens­ing, and rights management.
• Safe­ty & Secu­ri­ty: State-of-the-art risk-man­age­ment prac­tices, inci­dent-report­ing pro­ce­dures, and robust­ness mea­sures for sys­tems with sys­temic-risk oblig­a­tions (Arti­cle 55).

Sig­na­ture Process

Providers of gen­er­al-pur­pose AI mod­els may sign the code by com­plet­ing a sig­na­to­ry form and send the signed form to the AI Office. 

By sign­ing the Code, GPAI providers can demon­strate com­pli­ance more effi­cient­ly, reduce admin­is­tra­tive bur­den, and gain legal cer­tain­ty under the AI Act.

Sig­na­to­ries

Lead­ing AI providers such as Ama­zon, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Anthrop­ic, Ope­nAI, Cohere, Mis­tral AI, and Aleph Alpha have already signed the Code.

Details on the Code of Prac­tice can be accessed here.

Source: Euro­pean Commission 

Accom­pa­ny­ing this sub­ject we rec­om­mend the fol­low­ing con­tent on our website

Euro­pean Com­mis­sion pub­lish­es tem­plate for sum­ma­ry of train­ing data