European Union · Governance guidance

EU General-Purpose AI Code of Practice

The Code gives general-purpose AI model providers practical approaches to transparency, copyright and systemic-risk management under the EU AI Act.

Current status
Voluntary compliance tool supporting statutory duties
Published or updated
10 July 2025
Last verified
19 August 2026

Prepared by Longan Bay Area AI Legal Research Center based on official public materials.

01

Scope of application & addressees

  • Providers placing general-purpose AI models on the EU market
  • Providers of general-purpose AI models with systemic risk
  • Teams responsible for model documentation, copyright, safety testing and incident reporting

02

Core regulatory mandates & key requirements

01The transparency chapter provides model-documentation and downstream-information tools.

02The copyright chapter supports a policy for compliance with EU copyright law.

03The safety and security chapter addresses evaluation, mitigation, incident reporting and model security for systemic-risk models.

03

Enforcement & compliance timeline

The final Code was published.

The European Commission confirmed the Code as an available compliance tool.

Primary text

Statutory & regulatory text

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