The Artificial Intelligence Law of 2026 (draft bill implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1689)

Ο περί Τεχνητής Νοημοσύνης Νόμος του 2026

Record CY-01

Issued by: Commissioner of Communications (Office of the Commissioner for Electronic Communications and Postal Regulation)
Jurisdiction: Cyprus
Level · region: National · Europe
Published / adopted: 2026-08-16
Language: Greek

Summary

Draft Cypriot law to apply and supervise the EU AI Act, published for consultation by the Commissioner of Communications on 16 August 2026. The Commissioner, acting through an AI Regulation Directorate, would be notifying authority, market surveillance authority and single point of contact; the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection would supervise high-risk systems in law enforcement, migration and border control, and justice and democracy, with related prohibited practices, and the Central Bank those of financial institutions. It sets serious-incident reporting, investigation powers, fines of up to EUR 35 million or 7% of turnover for prohibited practices, and an AI regulatory sandbox.

Language

No English version of this instrument was found. The English title and the summary are the register's own, written from the sources below; for the exact wording use the Greek text.

Safety topics

accountability & liabilityincident reportingrisk-based classificationprohibited practicesevaluation & testing

Status notes

Posted on the government's e-consultation platform on 16 August 2026, with comments open until 16 September 2026; the platform shows 102 comments and marks the bill as under processing. The draft's long title refers to the application of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 and its short title is the Artificial Intelligence Law; it would enter into force on publication in the Official Gazette. Other non-compliance carries fines of up to EUR 30,000 (EUR 60,000 for a repeat), and public authorities and bodies fines of up to EUR 50,000 per non-compliance and EUR 50 a day, amounts the draft marks as indicative. The Commissioner could authorise real-time remote biometric identification in publicly accessible spaces for law enforcement, within the AI Act's limits, by secondary legislation on criteria approved by the Council of Ministers. The Commission's list of single points of contact (last updated 7 September 2026) shows the Commissioner of Communications for Cyprus, marked as a designation still pending final adoption.

Sources

Open the official source https://e-consultation.gov.cy/diavouleuseis/%CE%BF-%CF%80%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%B9-%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%83-%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%87%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%83-%CE%BD%CE%BF%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%83%CF%85%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%83-%CE%BD%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%83-%CF%84

Secondary source: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/market-surveillance-authorities-under-ai-act

Local copy

Archived. Last attempt 2026-10-17 21:36:25 UTC

Official source (third-party copy, not published) archive/CY-01/2026-10-12/official.html

Retrieved 2026-10-12 04:36:34 UTC

SHA-256 d776fbe355f2af7b2375c8bfb209c8e5c807ebfc66ada052457f053255ef3d20

Linked document (PDF) (third-party copy, not published) archive/CY-01/2026-10-12/document-1.pdf

Retrieved 2026-10-12 04:36:36 UTC

SHA-256 b1e347e5fa6061486aced5d8363714aa04e4fe5e2904a746bfe225b5458d9ff8

Secondary source (third-party copy, not published) archive/CY-01/2026-10-12/secondary.html

Retrieved 2026-10-12 04:36:38 UTC

SHA-256 846b561e81c3257c82c75132183296cd57112fa9cbeaa9e29ed90be8fb1b0f7e

Verification

The instrument's own official text, or an official register, was stored and confirms the title, date and status. checked 2026-10-17 · official-url-fetched

Recheck of 17 Oct 2026: re-read the e-consultation.gov.cy bill page and the draft bill PDF linked from it (9 pages), both stored on 12 Oct 2026 and unchanged on 17 Oct, and the Commission's list of market surveillance authorities stored the same day. The page confirms the title, the Commissioner of Communications as publisher, the posting and closing dates, the 25 article headings, the comment count and the status 'under processing'; the bill text confirms the authorities (Article 5), fines (Article 14), the biometric exception (Article 21), the sandbox (Article 22) and entry into force (Article 25). Version 1's statements on a companion bill creating the AI Regulation Directorate, on the January 2025 Council of Ministers designation and the national AI Taskforce (InBusinessNews), and the Cyprus Mail report rested on no stored file and were removed; the fines and the Central Bank's role now rest on the bill text. No English version was found. Whether the bill has since been tabled in the House of Representatives was not checked against a stored file.

Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-17: 7 field(s) supported.

History

2026-10-17english_version: – → {"kind": "none found"} — no English text was found2026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-17notes: Consultation ran on the government's e-consultation platform until 16 September → Posted on the government's e-consultation platform on 16 August 2026, with comme — rewritten: companion bill, January 2025 Council of Ministers decision, AI Taskforce and press reports removed (no stored file); fines, the biometric exception and entry into force added from the bill text2026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-17summary: Draft Cypriot law setting up the national framework for applying and supervising → Draft Cypriot law to apply and supervise the EU AI Act, published for consultati — rewritten from the stored bill text: the authorities and their remits (Article 5), the Directorate, the fine ceiling for prohibited practices and the sandbox; the companion-bill sentence removed (no stored file)2026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-17date_last_updated: 2026-09-16 → – — cleared: 16 September 2026 is the consultation's closing date, which section 5.6 keeps out of date_last_updated; no new version of the draft appears in the stored files2026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Related records

EU AI Act European Union · Partially in force

Citation

Commissioner of Communications (Office of the Commissioner for Electronic Communications and Postal Regulation). The Artificial Intelligence Law of 2026 (draft bill implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1689). 2026-08-16. https://e-consultation.gov.cy/diavouleuseis/%CE%BF-%CF%80%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%B9-%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%83-%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%87%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%83-%CE%BD%CE%BF%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%83%CF%85%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%83-%CE%BD%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%83-%CF%84. Status: Draft / proposed; verified 2026-10-17 (level A). Local copy archive/CY-01/2026-10-12/official.html retrieved 2026-10-12 04:36:34 UTC, SHA-256 d776fbe355f2af7b2375c8bfb209c8e5c807ebfc66ada052457f053255ef3d20. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record CY-01.

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