# Romania

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

## In brief

Romania has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. EU AI Act applies; National AI Strategy 2024–2027 adopted; authority designation in progress. Regulators include Ministerul Cercetării, Inovării și Digitalizării, Autoritatea pentru Digitalizarea României (ADR), ANSPDCP. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Romania applies the EU AI Act and adopted a National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence 2024–2027 by government decision in July 2024, coordinated by the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalisation with the Authority for Digitalisation of Romania (ADR). The National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing is the data-protection authority; AI Act market-surveillance designation is in progress.

## Regulatory status

EU AI Act applies; National AI Strategy 2024–2027 adopted; authority designation in progress.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: National AI Strategy 2024–2027.

## Regulators

- Ministerul Cercetării, Inovării și Digitalizării — Lead ministry for the AI strategy — https://www.mcid.gov.ro/
- Autoritatea pentru Digitalizarea României (ADR) — Digital transformation and AI programmes — https://www.adr.gov.ro/
- ANSPDCP — Data-protection authority — https://www.dataprotection.ro/

## 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

- Strategia Națională în domeniul Inteligenței Artificiale 2024–2027 — Government of Romania (Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalisation) — https://www.mcid.gov.ro/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **Strategia Națională în domeniul Inteligenței Artificiale 2024–2027** — National strategy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/romania-national-ai-strategy-2024-2027
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/romania-national-ai-strategy-2024-2027.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/romania
- **Official source**: https://www.mcid.gov.ro/
- **Source document**: Strategia Națională în domeniul Inteligenței Artificiale 2024–2027
- **Published by**: Government of Romania (Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalisation)
- **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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