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“Completely unacceptable” and “fundamentally flawed”: 38 organisations oppose the 3rd draft of the CoP
“Completely unacceptable” and “fundamentally flawed”: 38 organisations oppose the 3rd draft of the CoP
28 Mar, 2025
Tags: AI Act, CoP, joint statement

CEATL joins 38 European and international rightsholders’ organisations in signing this joint statement opposing the 3rd draft of the Code of Practice for the implementation of the European AI Act.

Read the Statement here

“The intention of the EU’s AI Act was to enable the development of responsible AI and ensure that the cultural and creative sectors can continue to grow across European territories. Entirely counter to this, the third draft of the GPAI Code of Practice sets an implementation standard which undermines the objectives of the AI Act, contravenes EU law and ignores the intention of the EU legislator.

The third draft is therefore completely unacceptable. We cannot support the GPAI Code of Practice in its current version. No Code would be better than the fundamentally flawed third draft.”

The AI Act Codes of Practice is a set of guidelines for compliance with the AI Act (https://artificialintelligenceact NULL.eu/). Though they are not legally binding, compliance with these guidelines will serve as a ‘presumption of conformity’ with model provider obligations until more robust standards come into effect.
The codes are being developed through a multi-stakeholder process, involving working groups, academic and independent experts, AI model providers, members of civil society, and rightsholders all across the EU’s cultural and creative sector. CEATL, being one of them, is participating in the consultation (https://digital-strategy NULL.ec NULL.europa NULL.eu/en/news/kick-plenary-general-purpose-ai-code-practice-took-place-online) (started in Sept. 2024) launched by the DG for Communications Networks, Content & Technology of the European Commission.

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