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Article 53Obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models
CELEX 32024R1689 · Read on 2026-08-18 · Chapter V
What obligations does a provider of general purpose AI models have under the AI Act?
Under Article 53 of the AI Act (EU) 2024/1689 the provider must draw up and keep up to date technical documentation of the model, give information to companies building AI systems on the model, put in place a policy to comply with EU copyright law, and publish a sufficiently detailed summary of the content used to train the model.
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Short answer
1. Providers of general-purpose AI models shall:
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Official text
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1. Providers of general-purpose AI models shall:
(a)
draw up and keep up-to-date the technical documentation of the model, including its training and testing process and the results of its evaluation, which shall contain, at a minimum, the information set out in Annex XI for the purpose of providing it, upon request, to the AI Office and the national competent authorities;
(b)
draw up, keep up-to-date and make available information and documentation to providers of AI systems who intend to integrate the general-purpose AI model into their AI systems. Without prejudice to the need to observe and protect intellectual property rights and confidential business information or trade secrets in accordance with Union and national law, the information and documentation shall:
(i)
enable providers of AI systems to have a good understanding of the capabilities and limitations of the general-purpose AI model and to comply with their obligations pursuant to this Regulation; and
(ii)
contain, at a minimum, the elements set out in Annex XII;
(c)
put in place a policy to comply with Union law on copyright and related rights, and in particular to identify and comply with, including through state-of-the-art technologies, a reservation of rights expressed pursuant to Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790;
(d)
draw up and make publicly available a sufficiently detailed summary about the content used for training of the general-purpose AI model, according to a template provided by the AI Office.
2. The obligations set out in paragraph 1, points (a) and (b), shall not apply to providers of AI models that are released under a free and open-source licence that allows for the access, usage, modification, and distribution of the model, and whose parameters, including the weights, the information on the model architecture, and the information on model usage, are made publicly available. This exception shall not apply to general-purpose AI models with systemic risks.
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- Applies
- gpai-provider: Keep model documentation and a copyright policy for general-purpose AI models.
- Risk if ignored
- high
- What to do
- Keep model documentation and a copyright policy for general-purpose AI models.
- Deadline
- Applies since 2 August 2025; models placed on the market before that date must comply by 2 August 2027. Commission fines apply from 2 August 2026.
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Obligations, actions and sanctions
Article 53 · Role: gpai-provider
Keep model documentation and a copyright policy for general-purpose AI models.
Deadline: Applies since 2 August 2025; models placed on the market before that date must comply by 2 August 2027. Commission fines apply from 2 August 2026.
Decision chain (JSON)
Sanction: Administrative fine: prohibited practices up to EUR 35 million or 7 % of worldwide annual turnover; other obligations up to EUR 15 million or 3 %; incorrect information up to EUR 7.5 million or 1 %. For general-purpose AI models the Commission (AI Office) decides, up to EUR 15 million or 3 %.
Summary of the obligation in the register; the official language versions on EUR-Lex are authoritative. Source: NovaCopilot
Risk, sanction and outcome
Art. 53 · gpai-provider
Risk: high · Sanction: administrative_fine, högst EUR 15 000 000 · Authority: European Commission (AI Office)
Decisions applying the provision: none in the register
Full chain (JSON)
Outcomes are counted from stored judgments that cite the provision verbatim. Source: NovaCopilot
Guidance and secondary law
Authority guidance and the delegated or implementing acts that fill the article, with the primary source at the issuing body. Read 2026-08-31.
- Guideline · Europeiska kommissionen2025-07-18Guidelines on the scope of obligations for general-purpose AI models
Which obligations bind whom under Chapter V: the provider concept, downstream modification and the open-source carve-outs.
Article 51, 52, 53, 54, 55
- Guideline · Europeiska kommissionen2025-07-10General-Purpose AI Code of Practice
The voluntary code for general-purpose models: transparency, copyright and systemic risk, read against Articles 53 and 55.
Article 53, 55
The text is quoted from the official source and is not legal advice. A national court reads the language version that binds in its jurisdiction.
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