REGULATION15 August 2026· 9 min

EU AI Act: Practical Obligations for B2B SaaS Companies

With fines reaching €35M or 7% of global turnover, the EU AI Act reshapes how B2B SaaS companies design, deploy and document AI systems. Here's what compliance actually looks like.

InekIA Editorial Team

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[1]EU Regulation 2024/1689 (AI Act) — Official Journal of the European Union, July 2024

[2]Linklaters, 'EU AI Act Readiness Survey: European SaaS Sector', Q4 2024

[3]Forrester Research, 'The Cost of EU AI Act Compliance for Software Vendors', January 2025

[4]Gartner, 'Enterprise Procurement and AI Regulation Survey', Q1 2025

[5]European AI Office — euas-registration.eu, EU AI Database Technical Guidance, March 2025

[6]MIT Technology Review, 'The Carbon Footprint of AI Training', 2023

[7]CEN/CENELEC, 'Harmonized Standards Roadmap for the EU AI Act', February 2025