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GPAI Code of Practice

Official metadata

Official title
General-Purpose AI Code of Practice
Document type
Code of practice
Document date
2025-07-10
Document date kind
Publication
Document-date evidence
European Commission · Policy-page heading 'General-Purpose AI Code of Practice', statement 'published on 10 July 2025', and final chapter downloads 118120, 118115 and 118119. — Establishes 2025-07-10 as this exact record's publication-based document date.
Publication date
2025-07-10
Publication-date evidence
European Commission · Commission policy page statement that the final GPAI Code was 'published on 10 July 2025'. — Establishes 2025-07-10 as first official publication for this exact version or release.
Version label
Final
Legal status
Non binding
Language
en

Research classifications

These are researcher classifications used to organise and analyse the corpus; they are not official EU metadata.

Record level
Principal
Version status
Final
Temporal collection
Contemporary EU AI policy
Relevance class
Direct AI relevance
Policy stage
Implementation
Corpus tier
Core
Sectors
  • General cross sector
  • Health
  • Employment and labour
  • Defence and security
  • Media and culture
  • Intellectual property
  • Research and innovation
  • Agriculture and environment
  • Critical infrastructure
  • Cybersecurity
Policy membership
  • AI Act implementation
  • EU AI policy pathway
  • GPAI Code

Classification evidence

  • Relevance class: Direct AI relevance · European Commission · Exact cross-chapter artifact 'General-Purpose AI Code of Practice': named commitments, measures or form fields implementing GPAI transparency, copyright or systemic-risk obligations. — The artifact directly governs, interprets, evaluates or operationalises EU artificial-intelligence policy rather than merely mentioning AI.
  • Sector tags: General cross sector · European Commission · Exact cross-chapter artifact 'General-Purpose AI Code of Practice': named commitments, measures or form fields implementing GPAI transparency, copyright or systemic-risk obligations. The cited scope applies horizontally to AI systems, models, providers, deployers or affected persons rather than one economic sector. — The retained general_cross_sector tag is supported by the artifact's horizontal AI-policy scope.
  • Provenance tags: Officially published · European Commission · Commission policy page statement that the final GPAI Code was 'published on 10 July 2025'. — The exact version is distributed through an official EU institutional endpoint.
  • Sector tags: Intellectual property · European Commission · Final Code, Copyright Chapter, official download 118115, pp.4-6, Commitment 1 and Measures 1.1-1.5. — The composite Code includes substantive copyright-policy commitments.
  • Sector tags: Cybersecurity · European Commission · Safety and Security Chapter, official PDF 118119, p.18, Commitment 6; pp.41-43, Appendix 4. — Specifies cybersecurity safeguards and their implementation for model parameters and infrastructure.
  • Sector tags: Critical infrastructure · European Commission · Safety and Security Chapter, official PDF 118119, p.26, Measure 9.3(1); p.37, Appendix 1.4(3). — Requires prompt incident reporting for critical-infrastructure disruption and identification of cyber-offence risks to critical systems.
  • Sector tags: Health · European Commission · Safety and Security Chapter, official PDF 118119, p.27, Measure 9.3(3)-(4); p.34, Appendix 1.1. — Includes public and mental health in risk identification and specifies reporting of death and serious health harm; this is not a clinical-use certification.
  • Sector tags: Agriculture and environment · European Commission · Safety and Security Chapter, official PDF 118119, p.27, Measure 9.3(4); p.34, Appendix 1.1. — Addresses environmental harm in risk identification and incident reporting; the combined tag is supported by environment, not agriculture.
  • Sector tags: Employment and labour · European Commission · Safety and Security Chapter, official PDF 118119, p.25, Measure 8.3(6)-(7). — Addresses worker whistleblower policies and protection against dismissal, demotion and other work-related retaliation over systemic-risk disclosures.
  • Sector tags: Research and innovation · European Commission · Safety and Security Chapter, official PDF 118119, pp.14-15, Measure 3.5; pp.38-40, Appendix 3. — Provides research access, protection for external evaluators and requirements for rigorous, reproducible evaluations.
  • Sector tags: Defence and security · European Commission · Safety and Security Chapter, official PDF 118119, p.37, Appendix 1.4(1), read with p.11, Measure 2.1(2). — Requires identification of risks from enabling CBRN attacks and weapon acquisition or proliferation; the tag denotes security coverage, not military-only scope.
  • Sector tags: Media and culture · European Commission · Safety and Security Chapter, official PDF 118119, p.34, Appendix 1.1; p.37, Appendix 1.4(4), read with p.11, Measure 2.1. — Addresses false and harmful content, freedom of information and large-scale manipulation as risk-identification subjects; the tag denotes media-related coverage, not cultural-sector policy generally.

Production provenance

Provenance tags
  • Officially published
Named bibliographic authors
  • Nuria Oliver · European Commission · Official chairs page names the thirteen chairs and vice-chairs leading drafting; the exact version page identifies the independently written Code version.
  • Alexander Peukert · European Commission · Official chairs page names the thirteen chairs and vice-chairs leading drafting; the exact version page identifies the independently written Code version.
  • Rishi Bommasani · European Commission · Official chairs page names the thirteen chairs and vice-chairs leading drafting; the exact version page identifies the independently written Code version.
  • Céline Castets-Renard · European Commission · Official chairs page names the thirteen chairs and vice-chairs leading drafting; the exact version page identifies the independently written Code version.
  • Matthias Samwald · European Commission · Official chairs page names the thirteen chairs and vice-chairs leading drafting; the exact version page identifies the independently written Code version.
  • Marta Ziosi · European Commission · Official chairs page names the thirteen chairs and vice-chairs leading drafting; the exact version page identifies the independently written Code version.
  • Alexander Zacherl · European Commission · Official chairs page names the thirteen chairs and vice-chairs leading drafting; the exact version page identifies the independently written Code version.
  • Yoshua Bengio · European Commission · Official chairs page names the thirteen chairs and vice-chairs leading drafting; the exact version page identifies the independently written Code version.
  • Daniel Privitera · European Commission · Official chairs page names the thirteen chairs and vice-chairs leading drafting; the exact version page identifies the independently written Code version.
  • Nitarshan Rajkumar · European Commission · Official chairs page names the thirteen chairs and vice-chairs leading drafting; the exact version page identifies the independently written Code version.
  • Marietje Schaake · European Commission · Official chairs page names the thirteen chairs and vice-chairs leading drafting; the exact version page identifies the independently written Code version.
  • Markus Anderljung · European Commission · Official chairs page names the thirteen chairs and vice-chairs leading drafting; the exact version page identifies the independently written Code version.
  • Anka Reuel · European Commission · Official chairs page names the thirteen chairs and vice-chairs leading drafting; the exact version page identifies the independently written Code version.
Institutions and roles
  • European AI Office · Commissioner · role evidence · Official Commission page expressly says the AI Office appointed the chairs and vice-chairs leading drafting.

Official sources and identifiers

Previous and next versions

Research assessment

Inclusion rationale
Verified official English text within the AI Act implementation and amendment corpus.
Researcher notes
Official metadata is transcribed from the cited source; corpus tier and policy-stage classification are researcher assessments.
Review status
verified

Relationships

Verification

Expanded evidence review
Verified
Reviewed by
Yichen Hao
Evidence review date
2026-09-05T18:07:46Z

The evidence review date is not a separate human sign-off date. Review credit and evidence-review actions

  • Last verified: 2026-09-05T17:58:09Z · Live official-page review on 5 September 2026. The Commission page names the thirteen chairs and vice-chairs leading the GPAI Code drafting process and expressly states that the AI Office appointed them; it is used for named external-author and commissioning evidence, not as evidence that the Commission or AI Office authored the Code.
  • Last verified: 2026-09-05T18:11:15Z · Official Commission page publishes the final GPAI Code and separate Transparency, Copyright, Safety and Security, Model Documentation Form and Signatory Form files (newsroom documents 118120, 118115, 118119, 118118, 118312). Narrow verification on 2026-09-05 checked the landing-page structure, stated purposes and download labels recorded in research/migrations/2026-09-05-relationship-evidence-migration.json; linked binary file interiors and retained bytes were not verified in this review, and no source snapshot was retained. Live re-review by AI-assisted reviewer on 5 September 2026 checked the official endpoint and exact-version identity, substantive scope, relevant dates and institutional attribution; prior verification history and retrieved_at are retained. Follow-up clarification: in this later expanded review, AI-assisted reviewer opened and read DOCX 118118 and checked its headings and substantive documentation fields. The earlier sentence about uninspected binaries is preserved as historical scope for the earlier narrow review, not a description of this later pass.

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