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Article 54 · In force since 2 August 2025

EU Authorised Representative for GPAI models.

If you provide a general-purpose AI model and you are established outside the European Union, Article 54 requires you to appoint an EU-based Authorised Representative. SecureFound serves as your sole point of contact for the EU AI Office.

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Scope

What qualifies as a GPAI model?

Under the European Commission's GPAI guidelines, a general-purpose AI model is one trained using significant computational resources (typically above 10²³ FLOPs) and capable of generating language, image, video, or multimodal output across a wide range of tasks.

Typical models in scope

Large language models, foundation models, text-to-image, text-to-video, text-to-audio, multimodal generative models.

Open-source exception

GPAI models released under a free and open-source licence with publicly available weights, architecture, and usage information are exempt — unless they present systemic risks.

Systemic risk threshold

Models trained with cumulative compute above 10²⁵ FLOPs are presumed to present systemic risks and require Article 55 obligations in addition to Article 54 representation.

Article 54 obligations

What we take on under your mandate.

  1. 01

    Verify Annex XI documentation

    Confirm the technical documentation specified in Annex XI is in place and that obligations under Article 53 (and Article 55 where applicable) have been fulfilled.

  2. 02

    10-year custody

    Maintain technical documentation at the disposal of the AI Office and national competent authorities for 10 years after market placement.

  3. 03

    AI Office liaison

    Single point of contact for the European AI Office. Respond to reasoned requests with all necessary information and documentation.

  4. 04

    Authority cooperation

    Cooperate with the AI Office and national authorities on any action, including when the GPAI model is integrated into downstream AI systems.

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