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Article 95
Codes of conduct for voluntary application of specific requirements

Chapter X — Codes of conduct for voluntary application of specific requirements. 3 distinct duties, powers or definitions are coded from this article, applying from 2026-08-02. 1 reaches legal practice directly.

Amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 (Digital Omnibus on AI), in force 2026-07-27 — about 2 words changed. The text below is the consolidated version of 27 July 2026; the 2024 text and the amending regulation are on EUR-Lex.

official text: EUR-Lex (consolidated 27 Jul 2026) · text © European Union (Decision 2011/833/EU) · coding CC BY 4.0 · data: obligations.json · Hugging Face · GitHub

The text

1. The AI Office and the Member States shall encourage and facilitate the drawing up of codes of conduct, including related governance mechanisms, intended to foster the voluntary application to AI systems, other than high-risk AI systems, of some or all of the requirements set out in Chapter III, Section 2 taking into account the available technical solutions and industry best practices allowing for the application of such requirements.

2. The AI Office and the Member States shall facilitate the drawing up of codes of conduct concerning the voluntary application, including by deployers, of specific requirements to all AI systems, on the basis of clear objectives and key performance indicators to measure the achievement of those objectives, including elements such as, but not limited to:

  1. (a)applicable elements provided for in Union ethical guidelines for trustworthy AI;
  2. (b)assessing and minimising the impact of AI systems on environmental sustainability, including as regards energy-efficient programming and techniques for the efficient design, training and use of AI;
  3. (c)promoting AI literacy, in particular that of persons dealing with the development, operation and use of AI;
  4. (d)facilitating an inclusive and diverse design of AI systems, including through the establishment of inclusive and diverse development teams and the promotion of stakeholders’ participation in that process;
  5. (e)assessing and preventing the negative impact of AI systems on vulnerable persons or groups of vulnerable persons, including as regards accessibility for persons with a disability, as well as on gender equality.

3. Codes of conduct may be drawn up by individual providers or deployers of AI systems or by organisations representing them or by both, including with the involvement of any interested stakeholders and their representative organisations, including civil society organisations and academia. Codes of conduct may cover one or more AI systems taking into account the similarity of the intended purpose of the relevant systems.

4. The AI Office and the Member States shall take into account the specific interests and needs of SMEs, including start-ups, and SMCs, when encouraging and facilitating the drawing up of codes of conduct.

What it requires, coded

SafeLegalAI's reading of each duty in this article: who, what, from when, under which fine tier, and whether it reaches a firm, chambers, court or legal-AI vendor. Descriptive, not advice; the quoted words are the Regulation's.

  1. Art. 95(1)Support measureAll AI systems

    The AI Office and Member States must encourage and facilitate codes of conduct for voluntary application of some or all Chapter III Section 2 requirements to non-high-risk AI systems.

    "shall encourage and facilitate the drawing up of codes of conduct, including related governance mechanisms"
    Who
    AI Office, Member State
    From
    (Art. 113 second subparagraph)
    Legal practice
    Reaches legal-AI vendors or public bodies — Legal organisations using non-high-risk AI may be covered by voluntary codes modeled on high-risk requirements.
    See
    Chapter III Section 2

  2. Art. 95(2)Support measureAll AI systemslegal practice

    The AI Office and Member States must facilitate codes on voluntary specific requirements for all AI systems, including ethics, environmental sustainability, AI literacy, inclusive design and vulnerable groups.

    "shall facilitate the drawing up of codes of conduct concerning the voluntary application, including by deployers, of specific requirements to all AI systems"
    Who
    AI Office, Member State, Deployer
    From
    (Art. 113 second subparagraph)
    Legal practice
    Reaches legal practice directly — This can reach law firms, legal departments and courts as deployers through voluntary AI-use commitments.
    See
    Art. 4

  3. Art. 95(3)Support measureAll AI systems

    Codes of conduct may be drawn up by providers, deployers or their organisations with stakeholders, and the AI Office and Member States must consider SME and startup interests.

    "Codes of conduct may be drawn up by individual providers or deployers of AI systems or by organisations representing them or by both"
    Who
    Provider, Deployer, AI Office, Member State
    From
    (Art. 113 second subparagraph)
    Legal practice
    Reaches legal-AI vendors or public bodies — Legal-AI vendors and legal deployers may participate in sector codes of conduct.
    See
    Art. 95(4)

Cite

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 95 (Codes of conduct for voluntary application of specific requirements), as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, consolidated text of 27 July 2026, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/2026-07-27/eng#art_95 — text © European Union; only the Official Journal is authentic. Coding: SafeLegalAI (published by Cognesio LLP), "EU AI Act, structured", safelegalai.com/regulation/eu-ai-act/article-95, accessed 2026-09-08, CC BY 4.0.