# Montenegro

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Montenegro
- **ISO code**: ME
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Europe / Southern Europe

## In brief

Montenegro has no AI policy instrument recorded here yet. Montenegro, an EU candidate, has prepared an AI strategy within its digital transformation strategy; adoption not confirmed from an official source. Regulators include Government of Montenegro. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Montenegro, an EU candidate, has prepared an AI strategy within its digital transformation strategy; adoption not confirmed from an official source. General law (data protection where enacted, consumer, telecommunications and sector rules) applies to AI systems. This record exists so that coverage is complete and honest: it will be expanded when an official AI instrument is published or a reviewer adds one with its source.

## Regulatory status

Montenegro, an EU candidate, has prepared an AI strategy within its digital transformation strategy; adoption not confirmed from an official source. General law (data protection where enacted, consumer, telecommunications and sector rules) applies to AI systems.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: no AI-specific instrument recorded. Strategy or guidance: none recorded.

## Regulators

- Government of Montenegro — Official government portal; AI policy lead not yet identified — https://www.gov.me/

## How to use this profile

- Open the official source on each instrument before relying on any date or obligation.
- Treat strategies and guidance as signals of coming regulation, not as binding requirements.
- Check data-protection, consumer, employment and sector law that applies to AI systems regardless of AI-specific instruments.
- Treat the absence of an AI-specific instrument as a gap in our records, not as legal certainty; check the government portal and regulator sites linked here.

## Official sources

- Government of Montenegro — Government of Montenegro — https://www.gov.me/
- Data Protection and Privacy Legislation Worldwide (country table) — UNCTAD — https://unctad.org/page/data-protection-and-privacy-legislation-worldwide

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/montenegro
- **Official source**: https://www.gov.me/
- **Source document**: Government of Montenegro
- **Published by**: Government of Montenegro
- **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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