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Section 4: Codes of Practice

Chapter V · Article 56

What this part of the EU AI Act covers

Section 4 provides for codes of practice. Article 56 tasks the AI Office with facilitating their drawing up, and adherence to an approved code is a means by which a provider of a general-purpose AI model can demonstrate compliance with its Chapter V obligations.

It binds nobody directly, but adherence to an approved code is the primary means by which a general-purpose AI model provider can demonstrate compliance with Chapter V, which makes a voluntary instrument the practical route for most model providers.

The provision in full

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