# Sweden

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Sweden
- **ISO code**: SE
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Europe / Northern Europe

## In brief

Sweden has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. EU AI Act applies; AI Commission roadmap (2024) under implementation as policy; national approach (2018). Regulators include Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten (IMY), Regeringskansliet (Government Offices of Sweden). Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Sweden applies the EU AI Act and has framed national policy through a 2018 national approach to AI and the AI Commission's roadmap for Sweden (SOU 2024:94, November 2024), which proposed investments, an AI task force, data access and public-sector adoption measures. The Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY) has published regulatory guidance and run sandboxes on AI; the government has proposed IMY, the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority and other bodies as AI Act authorities.

## Regulatory status

EU AI Act applies; AI Commission roadmap (2024) under implementation as policy; national approach (2018).

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: AI Commission roadmap for Sweden (SOU 2024:94).

## Current priorities

AI Act authority designation, AI investment package following the AI Commission, public-sector AI and data access.

## Regulators

- Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten (IMY) — Data-protection authority; AI regulatory sandbox — https://www.imy.se/en/
- Regeringskansliet (Government Offices of Sweden) — Government policy and AI Act implementation — https://www.regeringen.se/

## 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

- Färdplan för Sverige (SOU 2024:94) — Regeringskansliet, AI-kommissionen — https://www.regeringen.se/rattsliga-dokument/statens-offentliga-utredningar/2024/11/sou-202494/
- IMY: artificial intelligence — Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten — https://www.imy.se/en/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **Färdplan för Sverige – AI-kommissionens slutbetänkande (SOU 2024:94)** — National strategy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/sweden-ai-commission-roadmap-2024
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/sweden-ai-commission-roadmap-2024.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/sweden
- **Official source**: https://www.regeringen.se/rattsliga-dokument/statens-offentliga-utredningar/2024/11/sou-202494/
- **Source document**: Färdplan för Sverige (SOU 2024:94)
- **Published by**: Regeringskansliet, AI-kommissionen
- **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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