# Denmark

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Denmark
- **ISO code**: DK
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Europe / Northern Europe

## In brief

Denmark has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. EU AI Act applies; coordinating authority designated; national AI strategy (2019) and digital strategy as policy. Regulators include Digitaliseringsstyrelsen (Agency for Digital Government), Datatilsynet. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Denmark applies the EU AI Act and has designated the Agency for Digital Government (Digitaliseringsstyrelsen) as the coordinating national authority, with the Danish Data Protection Agency and sector supervisors competent in their fields. A 2019 national AI strategy, a 2024 digitalisation strategy and public-sector "signature projects" on AI in health and administration shape practice; Denmark also participates in the Nordic-Baltic AI cooperation.

## Regulatory status

EU AI Act applies; coordinating authority designated; national AI strategy (2019) and digital strategy as policy.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence (2019).

## Current priorities

AI Act supervision set-up, public-sector AI signature projects, health data and AI in welfare services.

## Regulators

- Digitaliseringsstyrelsen (Agency for Digital Government) — Coordinating national authority for the AI Act; runs public-sector AI programmes — https://en.digst.dk/
- Datatilsynet — Data-protection authority — https://www.datatilsynet.dk/english

## 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

- Agency for Digital Government — Digitaliseringsstyrelsen — https://en.digst.dk/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence** — National strategy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/denmark-national-strategy-for-artificial-intelligence-2019
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/denmark-national-strategy-for-artificial-intelligence-2019.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/denmark
- **Official source**: https://en.digst.dk/
- **Source document**: Agency for Digital Government
- **Published by**: Digitaliseringsstyrelsen
- **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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