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AI-generated-content transparency code first draft

Official metadata

Official title: First Draft of the Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content
Document type: Code of practice
Document date: 2025-12-17
Document date kind: Publication
Document-date evidence: European Commission · Library-page heading 'First Draft of the Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content', field 'Publication 17 December 2025', and PDF 123074. — Establishes 2025-12-17 as this exact record's publication-based document date.
Publication date: 2025-12-17
Publication-date evidence: European Commission · Commission library page metadata field 'Publication 17 December 2025' for exact PDF 123074. — Establishes 2025-12-17 as first official publication for this exact version or release.
Version label: First draft
Legal status: Non binding
Language: en

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

Record level

Version

Version status

Draft

Temporal collection

Contemporary EU AI policy

Relevance class

Direct AI relevance

Policy stage

Consultation

Corpus tier

Core

Sectors

Policy membership

Relevance class: Direct AI relevance · European Commission · Exact first-draft artifact 'First Draft of the Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content': commitments, measures or form declarations for Article 50 marking and labelling of AI-generated content. — 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 first-draft artifact 'First Draft of the Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content': commitments, measures or form declarations for Article 50 marking and labelling of AI-generated content. 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 library page metadata field 'Publication 17 December 2025' for exact PDF 123074. — The exact version is distributed through an official EU institutional endpoint.

Provenance tags

Named bibliographic authors

Kalina Bontcheva · European Commission · Cover of the exact linked Code version names all six independent expert authors.
Anja Bechmann · European Commission · Cover of the exact linked Code version names all six independent expert authors.
Dino Pedreschi · European Commission · Cover of the exact linked Code version names all six independent expert authors.
Giovanni De Gregorio · European Commission · Cover of the exact linked Code version names all six independent expert authors.
Christian Riess · European Commission · Cover of the exact linked Code version names all six independent expert authors.
Madalina Botan · European Commission · Cover of the exact linked Code version names all six independent expert authors.

Institutions and roles

European AI Office · Commissioner · role evidence · Official FAQ expressly says the six independent experts were appointed by the AI Office to lead drafting.

Next version: AI-generated-content transparency code second draft

Revises · Official relationship · Verified

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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Last verified: 2026-09-05T17:58:09Z · Live official FAQ review on 5 September 2026. The FAQ states that six independent experts led drafting and were appointed by the AI Office; the exact Code PDFs identify the six experts by name.
Last verified: 2026-09-05T17:58:09Z · Official page published 17 December 2025 provides the first draft (newsroom document 123074). 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.