# Norway

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Norway
- **ISO code**: NO
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Europe / Northern Europe

## In brief

Norway has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. EU AI Act being incorporated via the EEA; national AI strategy (2020) as policy; DPA sandbox operating. Regulators include Nasjonal kommunikasjonsmyndighet (Nkom), Datatilsynet, Digitaliseringsdirektoratet (Digdir). Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Norway is not an EU member but is in the European Economic Area and is incorporating the EU AI Act through the EEA Agreement, with the Norwegian Communications Authority (Nkom) proposed as coordinating market-surveillance authority. The 2020 National Strategy for AI, the Norwegian Digitalisation Agency's guidance and the Data Protection Authority's regulatory sandbox for responsible AI shape practice; a new national AI strategy is being prepared.

## Regulatory status

EU AI Act being incorporated via the EEA; national AI strategy (2020) as policy; DPA sandbox operating.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: National Strategy for AI (2020).

## Regulators

- Nasjonal kommunikasjonsmyndighet (Nkom) — Proposed coordinating market-surveillance authority for the AI Act — https://www.nkom.no/
- Datatilsynet — Data-protection authority; regulatory sandbox for responsible AI — https://www.datatilsynet.no/en/
- Digitaliseringsdirektoratet (Digdir) — Public-sector digitalisation and AI guidance — https://www.digdir.no/

## 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.

## Official sources

- National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence — Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation — https://www.regjeringen.no/en/dokumenter/nasjonal-strategi-for-kunstig-intelligens/id2685594/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **Nasjonal strategi for kunstig intelligens (National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence)** — National strategy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/norway-national-strategy-for-artificial-intelligence-2020
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/norway-national-strategy-for-artificial-intelligence-2020.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/norway
- **Official source**: https://www.regjeringen.no/en/dokumenter/nasjonal-strategi-for-kunstig-intelligens/id2685594/
- **Source document**: National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence
- **Published by**: Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation
- **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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