Consultation: draft new Act on artificial intelligence (implementation of the EU AI Regulation in Norwegian law)

Summary

Draft Norwegian Act on artificial intelligence (KI-loven) under which the EU AI Act, Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, would apply as Norwegian law with the adaptations made in the EEA Agreement, plus national provisions. The Norwegian Communications Authority (Nkom) would be the coordinating market surveillance authority and national contact point, and Norsk akkreditering the accreditation body for conformity assessment bodies. Breaches could be sanctioned with administrative fines, which public authorities could also incur, and coercive fines; no criminal penalties are proposed. The ministry could set rules for AI regulatory sandboxes.

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 Norwegian text.

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Status notes

The consultation ran from 30 Jun to 30 Sep 2025 and drew just under 150 responses. The consultation paper aimed for entry into force in late summer 2026, when most of the AI Act applies in the EU, on condition that the AI Act is incorporated into the EEA Agreement with the Storting's consent; it also proposed that Norway ratify the Council of Europe Framework Convention on AI. On 4 Aug 2026, after the EU adopted amendments to the AI Act in July 2026, the ministry announced a new consultation on the bill in autumn 2026 and aimed to put it to the Storting in spring 2027. At that date the AI Act had not been incorporated into the EEA Agreement and the necessary EEA adaptations were being negotiated.

Sources

Open the official source https://www.regjeringen.no/id3112327/

Secondary source: https://www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/tung-vil-sende-ki-loven-med-endringer-pa-horing/id3169693/

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History

1. 2026-10-17english_version: – → {"kind": "none found"} — the record had none; the regjeringen.no pages are marked 'Page not available in English' and no English translation of the draft was found2026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2. 2026-10-17notes: Consultation ran 30 Jun - 30 Sep 2025 and drew nearly 150 responses. The governm → The consultation ran from 30 Jun to 30 Sep 2025 and drew just under 150 response — the 2026 budget statement (15 Oct 2025) is not among the stored files and was replaced by the consultation paper's own timing (late summer 2026, conditional on EEA incorporation); the proposal to ratify the Council of Europe Framework Convention was added; the sentence on Datatilsynet and the national AI sandbox concerns NO-03 and is not in this record's files, so it was removed; the EEA status is dated to the 4 Aug 2026 press release rather than October2026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
3. 2026-10-17related: [{"slug": "no-ki-norge-2026", "id": "NO-03"}, {"slug": "no-national-ai-strategy- → [{"id": "NO-03", "slug": "no-ki-norge-2026"}, {"id": "NO-01", "slug": "no-nation — COE-01 added: the consultation paper proposes that Norway ratify the Council of Europe Framework Convention and was published with its Norwegian translation2026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
4. 2026-10-17summary: Draft Norwegian AI Act (KI-loven) that would bring the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU → Draft Norwegian Act on artificial intelligence (KI-loven) under which the EU AI — rewritten from the draft Act (ss. 1, 3 to 7) and section 19.2: adds Norsk akkreditering, administrative fines for public authorities, coercive fines and the sandbox regulation power, and says the AI Act would apply 'as law' with the EEA adaptations, as s. 1 does2026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
5. 2026-10-17date_last_updated: 2026-08-04 → – — set to null: 2026-08-04 is the date of a press release announcing a future second consultation, not a new version or amendment of the draft; no revised draft has been published, and the announcement stays in the notes2026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

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EU AI Act European Union · Partially in force

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CoE AI Convention Council of Europe · Adopted, not yet in force

Citation

Ministry of Digitalisation and Public Governance (Digitaliserings- og forvaltningsdepartementet). Consultation: draft new Act on artificial intelligence (implementation of the EU AI Regulation in Norwegian law) [DFD ref. 25/2019]. 2025-06-30. https://www.regjeringen.no/id3112327/. Status: Draft / proposed; verified 2026-10-17 (level A). Local copy archive/NO-02/2026-10-11/official.html retrieved 2026-10-11 14:01:52 UTC, SHA-256 2e6b0872feee01418185f6c715ee1534260ef4b099afcf04e566f9cb0f69dc51. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record NO-02.

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