Dominican RepublicDecreto 787-26, Ethics Code for Artificial Intelligence in Public Services, governance duties of public institutions
Decreto núm. 787-26 Código de Ética de la Inteligencia Artificial para los Servicios Públicos de la República Dominicana, arts. 2, 5, 8, 11 and 14
An AI governance rule binding government bodies.
- Private right of action
- No
- Instrument type
- a regulation made under an act
- Obligation class
- Governance
- Audit expectation
- periodic
- Who audits it
- Regulator
What it requires
- These duties bind only the bodies of the central and decentralized Dominican public administration, public companies included. A private supplier meets them only through the clauses a contracting public institution must write into its tender documents and contracts.
- If you are a public institution, adapt your policies, procedures and internal systems to the provisions of the Code.
- Designate the persons responsible for each artificial intelligence system you have in operation.
- When you buy, develop, license or use an artificial intelligence system, include in your tender documents, terms of reference and contracts the clauses that guarantee compliance with the Code, the personal data rules, the applicable security standards and the audit, traceability and supervision duties.
- Within 180 calendar days of publication of the decree, adapt your policies, procedures, systems and procurement processes to the Code.
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What record it asks for
Logging duty
The decree sets no log or record-keeping duty for the operation of a system. Article 11(b) requires only an institutional register of the artificial intelligence systems a body uses.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Decreto 787-26 approves the Code of Ethics for Artificial Intelligence in Public Services, which applies to every body of the central and decentralized public administration, public companies included. The Code applies when such a body designs, acquires, contracts, implements, supervises or uses artificial intelligence systems in public services, administrative functions or administrative acts.
Article 5 makes the Dirección General de Ética e Integridad Gubernamental the body that supervises the ethical and public-integrity aspects of the design, implementation, supervision and use of artificial intelligence systems in the public administration. Article 8 creates the Consejo Nacional de Ética de la Inteligencia Artificial as an advisory and coordination body that follows the implementation of the Code.
Each public institution must adapt its policies, procedures and internal systems to the Code. Each public institution must designate the persons responsible for each artificial intelligence system in operation. A public institution that buys or develops an artificial intelligence system must put into its tender documents and contracts the clauses that guarantee compliance with the Code, the personal data rules, the applicable security standards and the audit, traceability and supervision duties.
Public institutions have 180 calendar days from publication of the decree to adapt their policies, procedures, systems and procurement processes.
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