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Guidelines for GPAI model providers

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    C(2025) 5045 final ANNEX. Content-approved draft annex.

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Official title
ANNEX to the Communication to the Commission — Approval of the content of the draft Communication from the Commission – Guidelines on the scope of the obligations for general-purpose AI models established by Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act)
Official reference
C(2025) 5045 final ANNEX
Document type
Guidelines
Document date
2025-07-18
Document date kind
Document issue
Document-date evidence
European Commission · Original annex p. 1: Brussels, 18.7.2025; C(2025) 5045 final; ANNEX to the content-approval communication. — Establishes 2025-07-18 as the issue date of this exact original draft annex.
Publication date
2025-08-27
Publication-date evidence
European Commission · Official resources card dated 27/08/2025 directly links the July PDF ending 118340-3.pdf. — Establishes an official dated publication manifestation of this exact July annex on 2025-08-27, without claiming first-ever release or publication of C(2025) 7719.
Version label
Content-approved draft annex
Legal status
Non binding
Legal-status evidence
European Commission · Original paragraph 9 states that the guidelines are non-binding; the approval communication p. 2 says formal adoption was deferred. — Supports retained non-binding status and draft-version classification.
Language
en

Research classifications

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Record level
Attachment
Version status
Draft
Temporal collection
Contemporary EU AI policy
Relevance class
Direct AI relevance
Policy stage
Implementation
Corpus tier
Core
Sectors
  • General cross sector
Policy membership
  • AI Act implementation
  • EU AI policy pathway
  • GPAI Code

Classification evidence

  • Relevance class: Direct AI relevance · European Commission · Original pp. 4-5 paragraphs 1-10 explain and operationalise the AI Act obligations for general-purpose AI model providers. — The annex directly interprets and operationalises EU AI policy.
  • Sector tags: General cross sector · European Commission · Original paragraphs 1-10 address GPAI models and providers under the horizontal AI Act without limiting the guidance to one economic sector. — The guidance applies horizontally across GPAI providers and downstream uses.
  • Provenance tags: Authored by an EU institution · European Commission · Original p. 1 European Commission masthead and C(2025) 5045 final ANNEX heading. — The exact annex is a Commission institutional artifact.
  • Provenance tags: Officially published · European Commission · Official Service Desk resource card dated 27/08/2025 directly links the original July annex PDF. — An official Commission service provides a dated manifestation of the exact original annex.

Production provenance

Provenance tags
  • Authored by an EU institution
  • Officially published
Named bibliographic authors
None recorded after review
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Research assessment

Inclusion rationale
Original content-approved draft annex giving non-binding Commission guidance on the scope of GPAI-provider obligations under the AI Act.
Researcher notes
This stable July ID/slug represents the original C(2025) 5045 final ANNEX, not the distinct November C(2025) 7719 final guidelines. The 18 July approval communication approved the enclosed draft annex's content while deferring formal adoption until language versions were available. The 27 August Service Desk resource card directly links the original July PDF and dates that manifestation without claiming first-ever publication. Prior source history is retained.
Review status
verified

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Verification

Expanded evidence review
Verified
Reviewed by
Yichen Hao
Evidence review date
2026-09-04T00:00:00Z

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  • Last verified: 2026-09-05T17:58:09Z · Official library page supplies the adopted English guidelines and approval communication; the guideline is C(2025) 5045 final, dated 18 July 2025. Live re-review by AI-assisted reviewer on 5 September 2026 found the current guideline PDF is C(2025) 7719 final dated 19 November 2025, while C(2025) 5045 / 18 July is the approval communication; prior history and retrieved_at are retained.
  • Last verified: 2026-09-06T06:10:25.682+01:00 · Exact C(2025) 5045 approval communication. Page 2 approves the content of the enclosed draft annex while deferring formal adoption until language versions are available, establishing the official parent without final-guidelines status. Preserved source SHA-256 e33d18eefc4dfceaa9d6b1a38ec10bac8775605d1bc49c42461dabcc1f520824.
  • Last verified: 2026-09-06T06:09:58.51766+01:00 · Original July C(2025) 5045 final ANNEX, dated 18.7.2025. Its cover and paragraphs establish a content-approved draft annex, Commission origin, non-binding AI Act implementation guidance and horizontal GPAI scope. Preserved source SHA-256 6809d563ec3df310f55002d3fcfbcea748877f2b2215a07e62a31a3c4bba5517.
  • Last verified: 2026-09-06T06:11:42.458563+01:00 · Commission register metadata distinguishes C(2025) 5045 main communication /4239008 from ANNEX /4239009 and identifies CNECT. Its final marker concerns registration of the package and is not treated as formal adoption of the draft annex. Preserved source SHA-256 d05f04c58574b133ce5280da59d9244278b5bde6243b72f45c03d164e001e6bd.
  • Last verified: 2026-09-06T06:09:59.429248+01:00 · Official Service Desk resources card dated 27/08/2025 directly links the preserved original July C(2025) 5045 ANNEX PDF. This dates that manifestation, not first-ever publication or C(2025) 7719. Preserved source SHA-256 941bddc80071ddeeebb540d3a5e1f1563a15804e3e89163c41de0d58745ee505.

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