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Council of Ministers Resolution No. 2/2026 approving the National Artificial Intelligence Agenda (ANIA), its Action Plan 2026-2030 and governance model

Resolução do Conselho de Ministros n.º 2/2026 – Aprova a Agenda Nacional de Inteligência Artificial e o respetivo modelo de governação

Record PT-01 · Resolução do Conselho de Ministros n.º 2/2026 (Diário da República n.º 5/2026, Série I, 8 January 2026)

Issued by
Presidency of the Council of Ministers (Government of Portugal)
Jurisdiction
Portugal
Level · region
National · Europe
Published / adopted
2025-12-04
In force
2026-01-09
Language
Portuguese
Official identifier
Resolução do Conselho de Ministros n.º 2/2026 (Diário da República n.º 5/2026, Série I, 8 January 2026)

Summary

Portugal's national AI agenda for 2026-2030, approved by the Council of Ministers on 4 December 2025 and published on 8 January 2026, with 32 initiatives in four axes. The fourth axis, Responsibility and Ethics, aims at a regulatory regime that protects citizens while allowing innovation: implementing the EU AI Act by defining the competent authorities, coordination model and sanctions framework (first half of 2026), regulatory sandboxes (second half of 2026), an implementation guide with standards, national risk-assessment tools and a conformity-support infrastructure for high-risk AI (ANACOM, ARTE, IPQ, ANI), responsible-AI research funding and international regulatory cooperation.

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 Portuguese text.

Safety topics

risk-based classificationevaluation & testingresearch prioritiesinternational cooperationpublic-sector use

Scope

Borderline scope Mainly an agenda for AI infrastructure, adoption, talent and productivity; included as Portugal's national AI agenda, whose Responsibility and Ethics axis plans the AI Act's implementation, regulatory sandboxes and national risk-assessment tools.

Status notes

Approved by the Council of Ministers on 4 December 2025 and published in Diário da República n.º 5/2026, Série I, on 8 January 2026; in force from the following day. The agenda carries out Initiative 10 of the National Digital Strategy (Resolution of the Council of Ministers 207/2024) and rests on six guiding principles, the first being responsible innovation. The action plan for 2026-2030 may be updated by the government member responsible for State reform together with the member responsible for finance; commitments depend on available funding, mainly European funds, and the Council for Digital in Public Administration monitors implementation. The plan also includes a national AI literacy campaign on risks and responsible use (initiative III.8, first half of 2026) and a programme encouraging voluntary certification of AI quality management under Portuguese Standard 4595 (initiative IV.2).

Sources

Open the official source https://diariodarepublica.pt/dr/detalhe/resolucao-conselho-ministros/2-2026-1000882016

Secondary source: https://files.diariodarepublica.pt/1s/2026/01/00500/0002000037.pdf

Local copy

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Verification

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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
Stored and read in this run: the Diário da República page of the resolution rendered in a browser (diariodarepublica.pt), which gives the issuer, the publication in Diário da República n.º 5/2026, Série I, of 2026-01-08, the status 'Em vigor', the operative paragraphs 1 to 6, the signature of 4 December 2025 and annexes I and II with initiatives IV.1 to IV.7; and the PDF of the same issue (files.diariodarepublica.pt, stored as the record's secondary source). The plain download of the page has no text, and the browser's print copy holds only OCR of the page frame. Version 1's notes on ANACOM (the announced AI Act designation, the Commission's list of 7 September 2026, the Article 77 list, the consultation on the Article 5 prohibitions and two later resolutions) rest on pages not stored in this run and were removed; they are listed as leads. No English version was found: the Government's digital.gov.pt page on the agenda (not stored) says the document is available in Portuguese only.
Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-17: 10 field(s) supported.

History

  1. 2026-10-17english_version: – → {"kind": "none found"} — the field was missing; no English version was found2026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  2. 2026-10-17scope_note: – → Mainly an agenda for AI infrastructure, adoption, talent and productivity; inclu — added: the agenda's main focus is infrastructure, adoption, talent and productivity, with safety and regulation in one of its four axes, the same case as DE-02 and FR-022026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  3. 2026-10-17notes: The agenda implements Initiative 10 of the National Digital Strategy (RCM 207/20 → Approved by the Council of Ministers on 4 December 2025 and published in Diário — rewritten from the resolution (paragraphs 3 to 6, principles, initiatives III.8 and IV.2); the ANACOM statements, the Commission's list of 7 September 2026 and the later resolutions rest on pages not stored in this run and moved to leads; the repeated 'Adopted on 4 December 2025' removed2026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Related records

EU AI Act European Union · Partially in force

Citation

Presidency of the Council of Ministers (Government of Portugal). Council of Ministers Resolution No. 2/2026 approving the National Artificial Intelligence Agenda (ANIA), its Action Plan 2026-2030 and governance model [Resolução do Conselho de Ministros n.º 2/2026 (Diário da República n.º 5/2026, Série I, 8 January 2026)]. 2025-12-04. https://diariodarepublica.pt/dr/detalhe/resolucao-conselho-ministros/2-2026-1000882016. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-17 (level A). Local copy archive/PT-01/2026-10-12/official.html retrieved 2026-10-12 04:36:52 UTC, SHA-256 0794abe5f8088cfd34e8e50bb5f9f7828b20a3c505f702e4b51be3bbb0631b57. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record PT-01.

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