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GPAI Code of Practice

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The voluntary instrument (published 10 July 2025) that general-purpose-AI providers use to demonstrate compliance with their AI Act obligations until harmonised standards exist; three chapters: Transparency, Copyright, and Safety and Security (the last for systemic-risk models) 1.

Developed in
ch. 08, GPAI Code of Practice
ch. 18, The Code of Practice and enforcement
Chapters
ch. 08, Regulatory Map · ch. 18, EU AI Act
Source
1 numbered reference, listed below

Where it is used

10 chapters of the Body of Knowledge use the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

Patterns that use this term

One pattern page uses the term.

  • Loss of control

    One of the systemic risks the GPAI Code of Practice specifies: risks from humans losing the ability to reliably direct, modify or shut down a model, which may…

  • Harmonised standard

    A European standard adopted on a Commission standardisation request.

  • Transparency

    In NIST's framing, how far information about an AI system and its outputs reaches the people who interact with it: what happened.

  • AI Act (EU)

    Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the EU's horizontal, risk-tiered law for AI, amended by the Digital Omnibus.

  • Near miss

    A hazard that a control, or luck, interrupted before harm occurred: the guardrail blocked the exfiltration, the reviewer caught the invented dosage.

  • Provider

    Under the EU AI Act, whoever develops an AI system or general-purpose AI model, or has one developed, and places it on the market or puts it into service…

Sources

  1. [1] The General-Purpose AI Code of Practice (published 10 Jul 2025; a voluntary tool; three chapters: Transparency, Copyright, Safety and Security). European Commission. 2025-07-10. https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/contents-code-gpai (verified: primary)

Definitions of legal terms paraphrase the cited text, which governs. Dated statements are as of .

Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). GPAI Code of Practice. In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/gpai-code-of-practice. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026gpaicodeofpractice,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{GPAI Code of Practice}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/gpai-code-of-practice}
}