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Prohibited AI practices guidelines

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C(2025) 5052 final. Final.
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Exact C(2025) 5052 final Commission Guidelines on prohibited AI practices, newsroom document 112367. Complete 134-page PDF ending at numbered page 129 and certification block. It is the guidelines, not the 2-page C(2025) 884 approval communication already admitted.
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Official metadata

Official title: Commission Guidelines on prohibited artificial intelligence practices established by Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act)
Official reference: C(2025) 5052 final
Document type: Guidelines
Document date: 2025-07-29
Document date kind: Document issue
Document-date evidence: European Commission · Rendered exact cover: 'Brussels, 29.7.2025' and 'C(2025) 5052 final'. — Establishes 2025-07-29 as the exact final communication's document issue date.
Publication date: 2026-05-06
Publication-date evidence: European Commission · Resources index card under Guidelines: date '06/05/2026', title 'Guidelines on prohibited AI practices', and direct Download (PDF, 1.2 MB) link to guide-prohibited_en.pdf. The resource-specific HTML time datetime is 2026-05-06T16:20:21+02:00. — Establishes 2026-05-06 as the official publication represented by this dated Service Desk manifestation of the exact C(2025) 5052 final text. This is a later cited manifestation, not a first-ever publication claim.
Version label: Final
Legal status: Non binding
Language: en

Research classifications

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Principal

Version status

Final

Temporal collection

Contemporary EU AI policy

Relevance class

Direct AI relevance

Policy stage

Implementation

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Core

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Policy membership

Classification evidence

Relevance class: Direct AI relevance · European Commission · Exact title and sections 1-12 interpret the prohibited artificial-intelligence practices in Article 5 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689. — The communication directly interprets substantive AI Act prohibitions.
Sector tags: General cross sector · European Commission · Sections 2.3-2.4 address placing on the market, putting into service and use by providers and deployers across public and private actors without a single-sector limitation. — The guideline applies horizontally across sectors.
Provenance tags: Authored by an EU institution · European Commission · Rendered cover names EUROPEAN COMMISSION and labels the artifact COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION. — The exact institutional artifact supports Commission authorship.
Provenance tags: Officially published · European Commission · Official AI Act Service Desk Resources card dated 06/05/2026 with a direct PDF link to the exact guideline text. — The exact text has a dated official Commission resource manifestation.

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Institutions and roles

European Commission · Author · role evidence · Rendered exact cover: 'EUROPEAN COMMISSION' and 'COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION' above the exact C(2025) 5052 final guideline title.

Official sources and identifiers

Official source · Publisher/host: European Commission
Official source · Publisher/host: European Commission
Official source · Publisher/host: European Commission

Research assessment

Inclusion rationale: Official Commission guidance directly interpreting the AI Act's prohibited-practices rules.
Researcher notes: Third-pass exact-version review retains the 29 July 2025 issue date and identifies a later official publication manifestation: the AI Act Service Desk resources index dates its direct link to the exact C(2025) 5052 final text 6 May 2026. This is the publication represented by the cited official source, not a claim that no earlier publication occurred.
Review status: verified

Relationships

Prohibited AI practices guidelines · Implements · Artificial Intelligence Act

Official relationship · Verified

Official rationale: The guidelines expressly address prohibited practices under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689.

Evidence source: European Commission

Verification

Expanded evidence review: Verified

Reviewed by: Yichen Hao
Evidence review date: 2026-09-05T20:53:39.898Z

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Last verified: 2026-09-05T20:53:39.898Z · Freshly retrieved and inspected exact 134-page official PDF (1,319,114 bytes; SHA-256 8b7cb759a821b70e19b5188c72aaf44c5978088777e3035ff9633dda5e9d4244). The rendered cover identifies EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Brussels 29.7.2025, C(2025) 5052 final and COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION. Complete whitespace-normalized extracted text equals the current official newsroom 112367 PDF (1,204,912 bytes; SHA-256 298bf8677884b333fae6d5f84aac947f45a59dff6027ca038ba08615092fd82f). No archive or first-publication claim is made.
Last verified: 2026-09-05T20:53:39.898Z · Fresh official AI Act Service Desk review: the Resources index has separate Guidelines cards dated 06/05/2026 for 'Guidelines on prohibited AI practices' and 'Guidelines on the definition of an AI system', each with a direct PDF link. The directly linked PDFs were retrieved and matched by complete whitespace-normalized text to the current official newsroom C(2025)5052 and C(2025)5053 PDFs. The card dates are used only as the official publication manifestations represented by this source, not as first-ever-publication claims. The card-specific time datetime values are 2026-05-06T16:20:21+02:00 (prohibited practices) and 2026-05-06T16:22:32+02:00 (AI-system definition), not a generic index modification timestamp.
Last verified: 2026-09-05T17:58:09Z · Official library page and English PDF confirm C(2025) 5052 final, dated 29 July 2025; the downloadable English file is Commission newsroom document 112367. Live re-review by AI-assisted reviewer on 5 September 2026 found that the page's Publication 4 February 2025 identifies the approval release and cannot evidence first publication of C(2025) 5052 final dated 29 July 2025; prior history and retrieved_at are retained.

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