AI regulation in Slovenia: the EU AI Act (2026)

Yes. As an EU member, Slovenia is covered by the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), which applies directly.

It uses a risk-based approach: unacceptable-risk AI is banned, high-risk AI faces strict obligations, and general-purpose AI models carry transparency duties.

It is phased: prohibitions applied from February 2025, general-purpose-AI rules from August 2025, and most high-risk obligations from August 2026.

Up to €35 million or 7% of global annual turnover for breaching the prohibited-AI rules, with lower tiers for other breaches.

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 entered into force 1 August 2024. Prohibited-AI-practices rules and AI-literacy obligations applied from 2 February 2025; GPAI-model obligations from 2 August 2025; full high-risk obligations from 2 August 2026; embedded high-risk systems transition until 2 August 2028.

Slovenia's Act on the Implementation of the EU AI Regulation (ZIUDHPUI) entered into force on 21 November 2025. It designates competent authorities, sets procedural rules, establishes fines for minor offences, provides for a national AI ethics council, regulatory sandboxes, and a public register, and organises outreach for SMEs and public authorities.

The Agency for Communication Networks and Services (AKOS) serves as Slovenia's national single point of contact, primary market surveillance authority, and competent authority for regulatory sandboxes under the AI Act. It maintains the register of high-risk AI systems in critical infrastructure and is required to establish the first regulatory sandbox by 2 August 2026.

In addition to AKOS, ZIUDHPUI designates the Information Commissioner, the Bank of Slovenia, the Insurance Supervision Agency, and the Market Inspectorate as sector-specific market surveillance authorities. Notifying-authority functions are split across the Ministries of Economy, Infrastructure, Health, and Digital Transformation, as well as the Public Agency for Medicinal Products.

In November 2025 the Slovenian government submitted a draft National AI Programme 2030 for public consultation, succeeding the 2021 National Programme to Promote the Development and Use of AI by 2025 (NpAI) which foresaw €112 million in investment including ~€65 million from the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility.

ZIUDHPUI mandates establishment of a National Council for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence and requires training programmes for public officials on AI literacy, reflecting the AI Act's Article 4 AI-literacy obligation applied at national level.