# Ley para el Fomento de la Inteligencia Artificial y Tecnologías Emergentes (Decreto Legislativo, febrero de 2025)

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: El Salvador
- **Instrument type**: Act / statute
- **Status**: In force
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Issuing body**: Asamblea Legislativa de El Salvador
- **Adopted**: 2025-02-25

## In brief

Law for the Promotion of AI and Emerging Technologies is a binding act of El Salvador, issued by Asamblea Legislativa de El Salvador. Its current status is in force. Developers, providers and users of AI systems in El Salvador and public bodies; ANIA issues implementing regulations.

## Summary

Approved by the Legislative Assembly in February 2025, the law promotes AI development and investment, creates the National Agency for Artificial Intelligence (ANIA) as regulator, defines rights and principles (human oversight, transparency, non-discrimination, data protection), sets registration and sandbox mechanisms and limits liability of developers who act in good faith under the law, alongside data-processing rules for AI training.

## Scope

Developers, providers and users of AI systems in El Salvador and public bodies; ANIA issues implementing regulations.

## Notes on dates

Legislative approval date as reported; publication and entry into force to be confirmed in the Diario Oficial.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0067 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0067; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/el-salvador-ai-promotion-law-2025
- **Official source**: https://www.asamblea.gob.sv/
- **Source document**: Asamblea Legislativa de El Salvador
- **Published by**: Government of El Salvador
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-11-04
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Ley para el Fomento de la Inteligencia Artificial y Tecnologías Emergentes (Decreto Legislativo, febrero de 2025)" [AIPT-POL-0067, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0067 (accessed 4 November 2026).

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