MozambiqueNational Commission for Artificial Intelligence (CNIA), Establishment Decree (Decreto n.º 14/2026)
In force since .
An AI governance rule binding government bodies.
What it requires
- This Decree sets up a government advisory commission that publishes its activity reports, opinions and recommendations every six months; it places no duty on a private developer or deployer of an AI system.
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Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The Decree creates no enforcement body; the National Commission for Artificial Intelligence (CNIA) advises the Government under the Council of Ministers, with the ICT regulatory authority as its Executive Secretariat.
What this law does
Decreto n.º 14/2026, de 17 de Abril, issued by the Council of Ministers and published in the Boletim da República, I Série, n.º 72, creates the National Commission for Artificial Intelligence (CNIA) (art. 1). The Decree makes the CNIA a consultative and technical-advisory body to the Government on scientific, technological, innovation and information-security matters related to artificial intelligence (art. 2(1)), subordinate to the Council of Ministers (art. 5).
The CNIA advises the Government and issues opinions on AI policies, strategies, action plans and legal and regulatory proposals (art. 6(1)); the Decree gives it no power to bind a private developer or deployer of an AI system, and states no penalty. The Executive Secretariat is the ICT regulatory authority (art. 9(2)). The CNIA must publish its activity reports, opinions and recommendations every six months on a publicly accessible digital platform (art. 6(1)(v)). The Decree entered into force on the date of its publication (art. 12).
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