AI Act Compliance
The EU AI Act imposes graduated obligations on AI providers and deployers; GlobalB Law helps technology companies and enterprises navigate classification, conformity assessment, and cross-border rollout.
The EU AI Act, the world's first comprehensive legal framework for artificial intelligence, applies to any organization that places an AI system on the EU market or uses one within the EU, regardless of where that organization is headquartered. For Turkish companies expanding into Europe, US-based AI vendors serving EU customers, and multinational enterprises running AI-powered products, compliance is not optional: it determines whether a product can be deployed at all.
What the AI Act Requires
The regulation establishes a four-tier risk pyramid. Prohibited AI practices must be dismantled immediately. High-risk systems, covering areas such as recruitment, credit scoring, biometric identification, and critical infrastructure, require conformity assessments, technical documentation, human oversight mechanisms, and registration in the EU database before market placement. Limited-risk and minimal-risk systems carry lighter obligations, principally transparency duties. GlobalB Law maps each AI component in a client's product stack to the correct risk category, then builds the compliance infrastructure to satisfy that tier: from drafting technical documentation and conformity declarations to implementing governance policies and coordinating with notified bodies.
Our cross-border practice is particularly well-suited to companies operating under multiple regimes simultaneously. We align AI Act obligations with Türkiye's own emerging AI regulatory landscape, GDPR data-processing requirements, and applicable US frameworks, producing a unified compliance posture rather than three parallel programmes.
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Which AI systems are classified as 'high-risk' under the AI Act?
High-risk AI systems include those used in biometric identification, critical infrastructure, education, employment decisions (hiring, promotion), essential private and public services such as credit scoring, law enforcement, migration management, and administration of justice. If your product influences any of these areas, mandatory pre-market obligations apply.
Our AI product is built outside the EU, does the AI Act still apply to us?
Yes. The AI Act applies to providers placing AI systems on the EU market, deployers using them within the EU, and importers or distributors of EU-facing AI products, regardless of where the provider is established. A Turkish SaaS company with EU customers or a US AI vendor with European deployers falls within scope.
When do the AI Act obligations become enforceable?
The Act entered into force in August 2024. Prohibitions on unacceptable-risk AI practices applied from February 2025. General-purpose AI model obligations apply from August 2025. High-risk system obligations phase in through 2026. A compliance programme started now is therefore already behind the first enforcement wave.
What penalties does the AI Act carry for non-compliance?
Fines for prohibited AI practices can reach €35 million or 7% of worldwide annual turnover, whichever is higher. Violations of other obligations can attract fines up to €15 million or 3% of global turnover. Providing incorrect information to authorities can result in fines up to €7.5 million or 1.5% of turnover.
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