# Portugal

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

## In brief

Portugal has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. EU AI Act applies; AI Portugal 2030 (2019) and 2025 AI agenda as policy; authority designation in progress. Regulators include Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (CNPD), Agência para a Modernização Administrativa (AMA).

## Overview

Portugal applies the EU AI Act and adopted the "AI Portugal 2030" strategy in 2019 within the INCoDe.2030 digital-skills initiative, followed by a 2025 national AI agenda focused on public administration, language models in Portuguese and computing. The government has proposed the national communications regulator ANACOM and sector authorities for AI Act supervision, with the CNPD as data-protection authority.

## Regulatory status

EU AI Act applies; AI Portugal 2030 (2019) and 2025 AI agenda as policy; authority designation in progress.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: AI Portugal 2030.

## Regulators

- Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (CNPD) — Data-protection authority — https://www.cnpd.pt/
- Agência para a Modernização Administrativa (AMA) — Public-sector digital transformation and AI in administration — https://www.ama.gov.pt/

## 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

- AI Portugal 2030 — INCoDe.2030 / Government of Portugal — https://www.incode2030.gov.pt/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **AI Portugal 2030: Portuguese National Initiative on Digital Skills – Artificial Intelligence strategy** — National strategy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/portugal-ai-portugal-2030
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/portugal-ai-portugal-2030.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/portugal
- **Official source**: https://www.incode2030.gov.pt/
- **Source document**: AI Portugal 2030
- **Published by**: INCoDe.2030 / Government of Portugal
- **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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