European Union: Common-purpose AI obligations beneath the EU AI Act kick in from 2 August 2025

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2 August 2025 was an essential deadline beneath the EU AI Act: obligations for suppliers of general-purpose AI (GPAI) fashions entered into power, offered the mannequin is positioned available on the market on or after this date.

The European Fee and EU AI Workplace have been gearing up for this deadline with lately launched Pointers for suppliers of general-purpose AI fashions (the Pointers) and a ultimate Common-Goal AI Code of Apply (the Code). The Code was topic to the Fee and the AI Board assessing its adequacy. The Fee confirmed the Code’s formal approval on 1 August.

The Pointers present an interpretative framework for understanding the obligations of suppliers of general-purpose AI fashions, and the Code presents particular measures advised by the Fee that suppliers can implement to display that they meet these obligations.

Kathy Harford, Lead Data Lawyer, Helen Davenport, Lead Data Lawyer – Know-how, and Karen Battersby, Director of Data for Sectors and Purchasers, contributed to this authorized replace.

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John Groom

John is a media and know-how lawyer in Baker McKenzie’s IP and Know-how crew. He’s ranked as a “rising star” for TMT, and recognised as a key lawyer for Media and Leisure within the UK by Authorized 500. In 2020 John was elected to TechUK’s Knowledge Analytics and AI Management Committee.

His apply encompasses a broad vary of each contentious and non-contentious facets of IP, Know-how and Business legislation, with a selected deal with copyright, digital media, and new applied sciences. John writes recurrently on these matters and his chapter (with Ben Allgrove), “Enforcement in a digital context: middleman legal responsibility,” was printed in Tanya Aplin (Ed.) Analysis Handbook on Mental Property and Digital Applied sciences in January 2020. John certified in 2013 and is predicated within the London workplace, having spent 2018 within the San Francisco workplace. John is closely concerned within the Agency’s tech-focused professional bono work, in addition to its social mobility initiatives.