General-Purpose AI Code of Practice
The Commission-facilitated code that GPAI model providers can sign to demonstrate compliance with the AI Act's transparency, copyright and systemic-risk duties. Voluntary in form, near-default in practice.
Key dates
- Jul 10, 2025Final code published
- Aug 2, 2025GPAI obligations under the AI Act became applicable
Risk areas addressed
Who it applies to
Providers of general-purpose AI models placed on the EU market; signing is voluntary but evidences AI Act compliance.
Penalties & enforcement
None directly, though non-signatories must demonstrate AI Act GPAI compliance by other means.
Enforced by: European AI Office
EU GPAI Code of Practice carries no direct penalty today, so its value is evidential: teams adopt it to show a named standard behind their controls for transparency, safety & robustness and copyright & IP. Mapping an existing AI inventory against it is usually enough to surface the gaps, and that same evidence tends to carry over to the binding regimes that follow.