# Meet general-purpose AI model provider obligations

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

## In brief

Meet general-purpose AI model provider obligations is a legal requirement under the EU AI Act in the European Union (Article 53 and Annexes XI–XII). It applies from 2 August 2025. The record carries 2 evidence examples and mappings to 2 frameworks. In practice: Prepare the Commission's training-content summary template and a documented copyright policy before release.

## What the duty requires

Providers of general-purpose AI models must keep technical documentation (Annex XI), provide information to downstream providers integrating the model (Annex XII), put in place a policy to comply with EU copyright law including the text-and-data-mining opt-out, and publish a sufficiently detailed public summary of training content using the Commission's template. Free and open-source models are exempt from the first two duties unless they present systemic risk. Adherence to the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice can demonstrate compliance.

## What an organisation does about it

Prepare the Commission's training-content summary template and a documented copyright policy before release.

## Controls that meet this duty

- Technical documentation, model cards and instructions for use (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/technical-documentation-and-model-cards
- Training-data provenance and copyright register (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/training-data-provenance-and-copyright-register

## 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

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-OBL-0018 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0018; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/eu-ai-act-gpai-provider-obligations
- **Official source**: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj
- **Provision**: Article 53 and Annexes XI–XII
- **Review status**: pending review
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: never confirmed against the official source
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Meet general-purpose AI model provider obligations (EU AI Act)" [AIPT-OBL-0018, not yet verified]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0018 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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