# Slovenia

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

## In brief

Slovenia has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. EU AI Act applies; national AI programme (2021) as policy; IRCAI hosted. Regulators include Ministrstvo za digitalno preobrazbo (Ministry of Digital Transformation), Informacijski pooblaščenec. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Slovenia applies the EU AI Act, adopted the National Programme for the Promotion of the Development and Use of AI to 2025 (NpUI) in 2021, hosts the UNESCO International Research Centre on AI (IRCAI) in Ljubljana, and coordinates AI policy through the Ministry of Digital Transformation.

## Regulatory status

EU AI Act applies; national AI programme (2021) as policy; IRCAI hosted.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: National AI Programme to 2025 (NpUI).

## Regulators

- Ministrstvo za digitalno preobrazbo (Ministry of Digital Transformation) — Digital and AI policy lead — https://www.gov.si/en/state-authorities/ministries/ministry-of-digital-transformation/
- Informacijski pooblaščenec — Data-protection authority — https://www.ip-rs.si/en/

## 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

- Nacionalni program spodbujanja razvoja in uporabe umetne inteligence v Republiki Sloveniji do leta 2025 (NpUI) — Government of Slovenia — https://www.gov.si/en/state-authorities/ministries/ministry-of-digital-transformation/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **Nacionalni program spodbujanja razvoja in uporabe umetne inteligence v Republiki Sloveniji do leta 2025** — National strategy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/slovenia-national-ai-programme-2025
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/slovenia-national-ai-programme-2025.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/slovenia
- **Official source**: https://www.gov.si/en/state-authorities/ministries/ministry-of-digital-transformation/
- **Source document**: Nacionalni program spodbujanja razvoja in uporabe umetne inteligence v Republiki Sloveniji do leta 2025 (NpUI)
- **Published by**: Government of Slovenia
- **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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