EU AI Act general-purpose AI, governance and penalty provisions start to apply
Concerns EU AI Act
What changed?
Chapter V obligations for general-purpose AI model providers, the governance chapter, notified-body provisions and most penalty provisions became applicable.
What does it mean in practice?
Providers placing general-purpose models on the EU market must now hold documentation, a copyright policy and a training-content summary.
Official source
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 113(b)Official Journal of the European Union · 12 Jul 2024
Cite this record
AIPolicyTracker (2026). “EU AI Act general-purpose AI, governance and penalty provisions start to apply”. https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2025-08-02-eu-gpai-obligations-apply (accessed 24 September 2026). Data licensed CC BY 4.0.
Cite the official text alongside it: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 113(b), Official Journal of the European Union, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj.
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