# Serbia

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

## In brief

Serbia has 2 recorded AI policy instruments, none of them binding. AI strategy 2025–2030 adopted; ethical guidelines (2023); AI law in preparation; EU AI Act alignment as a candidate country. Regulators include Kancelarija za informacione tehnologije i elektronsku upravu, Poverenik za informacije od javnog značaja i zaštitu podataka o ličnosti.

## Overview

Serbia, an EU candidate, adopted the first AI development strategy in the Western Balkans in 2019 (2020–2025), ethical guidelines for AI in 2023, and a new AI Development Strategy 2025–2030 in 2025, and has been drafting a law on artificial intelligence aligned with the EU AI Act. The Office for IT and eGovernment and the Institute for AI Research and Development of Serbia lead implementation.

## Regulatory status

AI strategy 2025–2030 adopted; ethical guidelines (2023); AI law in preparation; EU AI Act alignment as a candidate country.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: AI Development Strategy 2025–2030; Ethical guidelines for trustworthy AI (2023).

## Regulators

- Kancelarija za informacione tehnologije i elektronsku upravu — Office for IT and eGovernment; AI strategy implementation — https://www.ite.gov.rs/
- Poverenik za informacije od javnog značaja i zaštitu podataka o ličnosti — Data-protection authority — https://www.poverenik.rs/en/

## 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

- AI Serbia – national AI portal — Government of the Republic of Serbia — https://www.ai.gov.rs/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (2)

- **Етичке смернице за развој, примену и употребу поуздане и одговорне вештачке интелигенције** — Guidance, Guidance, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/serbia-ethical-guidelines-for-trustworthy-ai-2023
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/serbia-ethical-guidelines-for-trustworthy-ai-2023.md
- **Стратегија развоја вештачке интелигенције у Републици Србији за период 2025–2030** — National strategy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/serbia-ai-development-strategy-2025-2030
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/serbia-ai-development-strategy-2025-2030.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/serbia
- **Official source**: https://www.ai.gov.rs/
- **Source document**: AI Serbia – national AI portal
- **Published by**: Government of the Republic of Serbia
- **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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