European Union: European Commission and AI Board determined General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence Code of Practice including copyright protection regulation as adequate voluntary tool to demonstrate compliance with AI Act

On 1 August 2025, the European Commission and AI Board determined the General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence Code of Practice (GPAI Code) as an adequate voluntary tool to demonstrate compliance with the Regulation laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (AI Act). The European Commission confirmed that the Code establishes twelve commitments across three chapters, transparency, copyright, and safety and security, addressing, inter alia, documentation and reporting obligations under Annex XI, Sections 1 and 2, serious incident reporting under Article 55(1)(c), and cybersecurity mitigations pursuant to Article 55(1)(d). The Code also includes a Model Documentation Form and detailed appendices guiding systemic risk identification, model evaluation, and mitigation strategies. The Code sets out voluntary commitments to support compliance with Article 53(1)(c) of the AI Act, which requires providers of general-purpose AI models to draw up and make publicly available a sufficiently detailed summary about the content used for training of the model, according to a template provided by the AI Office. The Code requires providers of general-purpose AI models to maintain a copyright compliance policy, use only lawfully accessible content for training, respect machine-readable opt-outs, prevent infringing outputs, and establish a complaints mechanism for rightsholders. The European Commission concluded that the Code meets the adequacy requirements under Article 56(6) of the AI Act and contributes to its proper application, while noting that the European Artificial Intelligence Board (EAIB) would issue a separate assessment and that the Code remains subject to future monitoring, evaluation, and potential adaptation.