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Approval communication for prohibited-practices guidelines
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Download PDF — 2 pages (0.12 MB)C(2025) 884 final. Complete English approval communication, 2 pages. The separately issued guidelines annex is not included in this PDF and has its own corpus record.
Source: European Commission. Retrieved 2026-09-10.
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Official metadata
- Official title
- Communication to the Commission — Approval of the content of the draft Guidelines on prohibited artificial intelligence practices established by Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act)
- Official reference
- C(2025) 884 final
- Document type
- Communication
- Document date
- 2025-02-04
- Document date kind
- Document issue
- Document-date evidence
- European Commission · Communication masthead: 'Brussels, 4.2.2025', 'C(2025) 884 final', and title approving draft prohibited-practices guidelines. — Establishes 2025-02-04 as this exact record's document issue date.
- Publication date
- 2025-02-04
- Publication-date evidence
- European Commission · Commission page field 'Publication 04 February 2025' and approval download 112366, distinct from later final-guidelines PDF 112367. — Establishes 2025-02-04 as first official publication for this exact version or release.
- Version label
- Approval communication
- Legal status
- Non binding
- Language
- en
Research classifications
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- Record level
- Supporting
- Version status
- Final
- Temporal collection
- Contemporary EU AI policy
- Relevance class
- Direct AI relevance
- Policy stage
- Implementation
- Corpus tier
- Core
- Sectors
- Policy membership
Classification evidence
- Relevance class: Direct AI relevance · European Commission · Exact communication 'Communication to the Commission — Approval of the content of the draft Guidelines on prohibited artificial intelligence practices established by Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act)': opening approval paragraphs identify the named draft AI Act guidelines and distinguish content approval from later formal adoption. — 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 communication 'Communication to the Commission — Approval of the content of the draft Guidelines on prohibited artificial intelligence practices established by Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act)': opening approval paragraphs identify the named draft AI Act guidelines and distinguish content approval from later formal adoption. 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: Authored by an EU institution · European Commission · Communication masthead: 'Brussels, 4.2.2025', 'C(2025) 884 final', and title approving draft prohibited-practices guidelines. — The exact institutional artifact supports the retained EU-institution provenance classification.
- Provenance tags: Officially published · European Commission · Commission page field 'Publication 04 February 2025' and approval download 112366, distinct from later final-guidelines PDF 112367. — The exact version is distributed through an official EU institutional endpoint.
Production provenance
- Provenance tags
- Named bibliographic authors
- None recorded after review
- Institutions and roles
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- European Commission · Author · role evidence · Communication masthead: 'Brussels, 4.2.2025', 'C(2025) 884 final', and title approving draft prohibited-practices guidelines.
Official sources and identifiers
- Official source · Publisher/host: European Commission
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
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Verification
- Expanded evidence review
- Verified
- Reviewed by
- Yichen Hao
- Evidence review date
- 2026-09-05T18:07:46Z
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- 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.