# Providers of GPAI models must maintain technical documentation and inform downstream providers

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — Artificial Intelligence Act
- **Jurisdiction**: European Union
- **Category**: technical_documentation
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Applies from**: 2025-08-02
- **Provision**: Article 53(1)(a) and 53(1)(b); Annexes XI and XII

## What the duty requires

Providers of general-purpose AI models must draw up and keep up to date technical documentation covering the training and testing process and evaluation results, as set in Annex XI, and supply it to the AI Office or national authorities on request. They must also keep current the Annex XII information for providers that integrate the model into their own AI systems, so those providers understand its capabilities and limitations and can meet their own duties. Free and open-source models without systemic risk are exempt from both duties.

## What an organisation does about it

Maintain a model card and technical file aligned to Annexes XI and XII with version control tied to each model release.

## Controls that meet this duty

- Model release and change-management gate (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/model-release-and-change-management-gate
- Technical documentation, model cards and instructions for use (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/technical-documentation-and-model-cards

## Parent instrument

- Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — Artificial Intelligence Act
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/eu-ai-act
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/eu-ai-act.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/eu-ai-act-art-53-gpai-technical-and-downstream-documentation
- **Official source**: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj
- **Provision**: Article 53(1)(a) and 53(1)(b); Annexes XI and XII
- **Review status**: pending review
- **Confidence**: high
- **Facts last confirmed**: never confirmed against the official source
- **Retrieved**: 2026-09-24
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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