# Austria

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Austria
- **ISO code**: AT
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Europe / Western Europe

## In brief

Austria has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. EU AI Act applies; RTR AI service desk operating; AIM AT 2030 strategy as policy; authority designation in progress. Regulators include RTR – KI-Servicestelle (AI Service Desk), Datenschutzbehörde. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Austria applies the EU AI Act and set up an AI service desk (KI-Servicestelle) at the telecoms regulator RTR in 2024 to inform companies and the public about the Regulation; an AI advisory board (KI-Beirat) advises the federal government. The national strategy "AIM AT 2030" (2021) sets objectives for human-centred, trustworthy AI, and Austria has proposed RTR as its market-surveillance authority.

## Regulatory status

EU AI Act applies; RTR AI service desk operating; AIM AT 2030 strategy as policy; authority designation in progress.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: AIM AT 2030 (AI strategy).

## Regulators

- RTR – KI-Servicestelle (AI Service Desk) — Information point for the AI Act; proposed market-surveillance authority — https://www.rtr.at/rtr/service/ki-servicestelle/ki-servicestelle.en.html
- Datenschutzbehörde — Data-protection authority — https://www.dsb.gv.at/

## How to use this profile

- Start from the EU AI Act record for obligations; use this page for the national authorities, penalties and strategy.
- Open the official source on each instrument before relying on any date or obligation.
- Check national data-protection, employment and consumer law that applies to AI systems regardless of the AI Act.

## Official sources

- KI-Servicestelle — Rundfunk und Telekom Regulierungs-GmbH (RTR) — https://www.rtr.at/rtr/service/ki-servicestelle/ki-servicestelle.en.html

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **Strategie der Bundesregierung für Künstliche Intelligenz – Artificial Intelligence Mission Austria 2030 (AIM AT 2030)** — National strategy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/austria-aim-at-2030
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/austria-aim-at-2030.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/austria
- **Official source**: https://www.rtr.at/rtr/service/ki-servicestelle/ki-servicestelle.en.html
- **Source document**: KI-Servicestelle
- **Published by**: Rundfunk und Telekom Regulierungs-GmbH (RTR)
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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