# Hungary

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Hungary
- **ISO code**: HU
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Europe / Eastern Europe

## In brief

Hungary has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. EU AI Act applies; national AI strategy (2020) as policy. Regulators include Nemzeti Adatvédelmi és Információszabadság Hatóság (NAIH), Mesterséges Intelligencia Koalíció. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Hungary applies the EU AI Act and adopted a national AI Strategy in 2020 coordinated by the AI Coalition and the Ministry for Innovation and Technology (now the Ministry for National Economy and the Digital Hungary Agency). The National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (NAIH) is the data-protection authority; AI Act authority designation is in progress.

## Regulatory status

EU AI Act applies; national AI strategy (2020) as policy.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: AI Strategy 2020–2030.

## Regulators

- Nemzeti Adatvédelmi és Információszabadság Hatóság (NAIH) — Data-protection authority — https://www.naih.hu/
- Mesterséges Intelligencia Koalíció — AI Coalition coordinating the national strategy — https://ai-hungary.com/

## 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

- Hungary's Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2020–2030 — Ministry for Innovation and Technology / AI Coalition — https://ai-hungary.com/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **Magyarország Mesterséges Intelligencia Stratégiája 2020–2030** — National strategy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/hungary-artificial-intelligence-strategy-2020-2030
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/hungary-artificial-intelligence-strategy-2020-2030.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/hungary
- **Official source**: https://ai-hungary.com/
- **Source document**: Hungary's Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2020–2030
- **Published by**: Ministry for Innovation and Technology / AI Coalition
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: low
- **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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