EU AI Act Readiness

Almost certainly — even if you are not based in the EU. The Act applies if any of the following is true: • You place an AI system on the EU market, regardless of where your company is established. • You deploy AI inside the EU. • The output of your AI system is used in the EU, even if you operate from a third country. If you sell into Europe, the EU AI Act reaches you — the same way GDPR did. We make that reach a non-issue.

The Act regulates AI by risk. We classify your use case up front: • Unacceptable risk — prohibited outright (e.g. social scoring). Banned since 2 February 2025. • High risk — strict obligations (risk management, documentation, human oversight, logging). Includes AI used in recruitment, hiring and worker management, credit scoring, and critical infrastructure. • Limited risk — transparency duties. Most operational AI we build — chatbots, RAG assistants, workflow agents — sits here. The core obligation is telling people they are dealing with an AI (Article 50). • Minimal risk — no specific obligations. Most of what you deploy is limited-risk and straightforward. The job is knowing which of your systems cross into high-risk — and handling it before launch.

If your AI interacts directly with people — a chatbot, a voice agent, an autonomous assistant — Article 50 requires that those people are clearly informed they are interacting with an AI, at the latest at the moment of first interaction. Burying it in your terms and conditions does not satisfy the rule. What we implement: • A clear, first-interaction AI disclosure on every interactive system we build. • Labelling of AI-generated or AI-manipulated content where required. • Accessibility-compliant notices. This obligation applies from 2 August 2026.

Compliance is mostly documentation and process discipline. For every engagement we provide: • AI risk classification — where each of your systems falls, and what that triggers. • Transparency implementation — Article 50 disclosures built into the product. • Technical documentation and logging — the records the Act expects from providers and deployers. • Human-oversight design — meaningful review built into automated workflows. • A governance pack — policies, data boundaries, and an audit trail you can show a regulator.

• 1 August 2024 — the Act enters into force. • 2 February 2025 — prohibited practices banned; AI-literacy duties begin. • 2 August 2025 — obligations for general-purpose AI models. • 2 August 2026 — most obligations apply, including Article 50 transparency and high-risk systems. • 2 August 2027 — remaining high-risk (regulated-product) systems.

Non-compliance carries significant penalties: • Up to €35 million or 7% of worldwide annual turnover for prohibited practices. • Up to €15 million or 3% for most other breaches, including transparency and high-risk obligations. • Up to €7.5 million or 1% for supplying incorrect or misleading information. For SMEs and start-ups, the lower of the fixed amount or the percentage applies.

We will map your systems to their risk class, implement the transparency your products need, and hand you the documentation a regulator expects. Request an assessment or email hello@euhub-ai.com.