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AI regulation in Armenia (2026)
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Armenia has no standalone AI legislation in force. The government has identified AI as a strategic priority through ministerial policy and the Digital Transformation Strategy 2021–2025, and on 27 January 2026 Armenia signed the Council of Europe's Framework Convention on AI, Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law—the first international legally binding AI treaty—though domestic ratification is pending. A formal national AI strategy document has been publicly discussed but not formally adopted as binding law.
Key points
Armenia signed the Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence (CETS 225) on 27 January 2026, committing to align AI lifecycle activities with human rights, democracy, and rule of law. The convention requires domestic ratification to take legal effect.
Law No. HO-498-N on State Support for the High-Tech Sector, in force from January 2025, creates a registration procedure for AI and other high-tech businesses to access tax privileges and employment incentives, but does not regulate AI conduct or risk.
Armenia's Ministry of High-Tech Industry declared AI-based projects—from educational reform to technical infrastructure—a top priority for 2025, and in October 2025 signed a partnership with Mistral AI to strengthen the country's AI ecosystem and GovTech applications.
On 8 August 2025, the United States and Armenia signed an AI and Semiconductor Innovation Partnership MOU, alongside a $500 million public-private AI infrastructure project with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, positioning Armenia as a regional AI hub—neither instrument constitutes domestic AI regulation.
Amendments to the Law on Police, effective 9 August 2025, authorised real-time biometric surveillance networks for the Ministry of Internal Affairs but were criticised by civil society for lacking AI-specific safeguards, public oversight, or legal accountability mechanisms.
Armenia's Digital Transformation Strategy 2021–2025 provides a broader digital policy framework led by the Ministry of High-Tech Industry and ISAA. The OECD.AI dashboard tracks Armenia's AI policy initiatives but lists no enacted comprehensive AI law or binding sectoral AI rules.
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