Question · EU GPAI Code of Practice
Is the EU GPAI Code of Practice mandatory?
The Code is a voluntary tool, drafted by independent experts and assessed as adequate by the Commission and the AI Board, that GPAI model providers can follow to meet AI Act Articles 53 and 55.
01 / The answer
The short answer
No. The General-Purpose AI Code of Practice, published on 10 July 2025, is voluntary. The AI Act's duties for general-purpose AI model providers are mandatory and have applied since 2 August 2025; the Code is one way to show compliance with them. The Commission and the AI Board have confirmed it as an adequate voluntary tool, which gives signatories more legal certainty, but it does not create a legal presumption of conformity. Providers that do not sign must show compliance by other adequate means. Commission fines for breaches of the GPAI duties became possible from 2 August 2026.
02 / The rule
What EU GPAI Code of Practice requires
The Code is a voluntary tool, drafted by independent experts and assessed as adequate by the Commission and the AI Board, that GPAI model providers can follow to meet AI Act Articles 53 and 55. Signatories include most major model developers; non-signatories must show compliance by other adequate means.
- 01Transparency chapter: document each model (Model Documentation Form) and supply it to the AI Office and downstream providers on request.
- 02Copyright chapter: adopt a copyright policy, respect machine-readable rights reservations such as robots.txt when crawling, and offer a complaints point.
- 03Copyright chapter: take measures to reduce the risk of the model producing copyright-infringing output.
- 04Safety and Security chapter (systemic-risk models): adopt a safety and security framework and assess and mitigate systemic risks across the lifecycle.
03 / Records
Records to keep
- 01Completed Model Documentation Form per model version
- 02Published copyright policy and crawler rights-reservation handling
- 03Safety and security framework and model reports (systemic-risk models)
- 04Serious incident reports sent to the AI Office
Optional evidence · where Planisphere fits
Keep a record anyone can check
When your team meets a duty, Planisphere can seal the event it reports as a receipt.
A disclosure shown, a review signed, a model change approved: the event your system reports.
The event becomes a sealed receipt, dated and attributed to whoever is signed in.
Paste the receipt into Verify. No account or key.
A record supports your compliance evidence process. It is not a legal finding or a certification. Systems that call Planisphere's gate API can also hold or refuse an action before it runs.
SOURCES
Go back to the source
European Commission
European Commission
EUR-Lex, Publications Office of the EU
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