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C(2025) 5052 final · 2025-07-29

Commission Guidelines on prohibited artificial intelligence practices established by Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act)

  1. 1.Background and objectives7 paragraphs
  2. 2.Overview of prohibited AI practices50 paragraphs
  3. 3.Article 5(1)(a) and (b) AI Act – harmful manipulation, deception and exploitation88 paragraphs
  4. 4.Article 5(1)(c) AI Act - social scoring38 paragraphs
  5. 5.Article 5(1)(d) AI Act – individual risk assessment and prediction of criminal offences38 paragraphs
  6. 6.Article 5(1)(e) AI Act - untargeted scraping of facial images17 paragraphs
  7. 7.Article 5(1)(f) AI Act emotion recognition32 paragraphs
  8. 8.Article 5(1)(g) AI Act: biometric categorisation for certain ‘sensitive’ characteristics18 paragraphs
  9. 9.Article 5(1)(h) AI Act - real-time remote biometric identification (RBI) systems for law enforcement purposes67 paragraphs
  10. 10.Safeguards and conditions for the exceptions (article 5(2)- (7) AI Act)73 paragraphs
  11. 11.Entry into application3 paragraphs
  12. 12.Review and update of the commission guidelines2 paragraphs