General-Purpose AI Code of Practice published

The Commission published the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice on 10 July 2025 — a voluntary tool for demonstrating compliance with the AI Act's GPAI obligations, complemented by Commission guidelines on key concepts. It has three chapters: Transparency, built around a Model Documentation Form providers can use to document the information required under Article 53; Copyright, with practical measures for a policy complying with EU copyright law; and Safety and Security, with practices for managing systemic risk, relevant only to providers of the most advanced models under Article 55. More than 20 companies have signed, including the major general-purpose model providers, and signatories benefit from reduced administrative burden and greater legal certainty compared with alternative compliance routes.

For most organisations the Code matters through their supply chain: it standardises the documentation you can demand from model suppliers, and signature status is a fast, public due-diligence signal. For providers, signing is the lowest-friction route to demonstrating GPAI compliance.

Providers of general-purpose AI models directly; indirectly every team that selects, audits or contracts for foundation models — the Code defines what good supplier documentation now looks like.