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Ley de Fomento a la Inteligencia Artificial y Tecnologías, marco institucional, registro y evaluación de riesgos

Decreto Legislativo No. 234, arts. 7, 16, 17 y 27

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In force since 11 March 2025.

An AI governance rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 5 September 2026.

What it requires

  • If your AI system handles data classified as confidential, reserved or personal, comply with the risk-evaluation framework the Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (ANIA) sets.
  • Register in the Registro Nacional de Desarrollo, Innovación y Aplicación de IA to obtain this law's safeguards for open-domain-data use, good-faith research and sandbox activity, and non-restrictive AI-model licensing.
  • When you use personal data to develop, research or apply AI, comply with the Ley para la Protección de Datos Personales, under ANIA and ACE supervision.

Who enforces it

Enforcement body

Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (ANIA)

What it reaches

Obligation class

Governance, Licensing, DPIA

What it makes you log

Logging duty

Articles 7, 16, 17, and 27 create ANIA, define the national AI registry's enrollment classes, delegate a risk-evaluation framework to ANIA, and set ANIA's own deadline to issue technical criteria; none states a duty for a registered subject to itself create, keep, or produce a log or record of its AI system's operation. 'Registro' in these articles names the national enrollment register a subject signs up in, not an operational log.

Kind
None
As of
22 September 2026

Who checks it

Audit expectation

none

What this law does

Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.

Article 3 applies the law to any natural or legal person, regardless of nationality, autonomy or form of incorporation, that develops or provides services relating to the development, research or application of AI or similar technologies in El Salvador.

Article 7 creates the Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (ANIA), an autonomous institution attached to the Presidency, and article 16 conditions the safeguards of article 19 (protection from injunctions against open-domain-data uses, liability limits for good-faith research and sandbox activity, and non-restrictive licensing for AI models) on registering in the Registro Nacional de Desarrollo, Innovación y Aplicación de IA.

Article 17 requires ANIA to set a comprehensive risk-evaluation framework, but makes compliance mandatory only for systems that handle data classified as confidential, reserved or personal. Article 27 required ANIA to issue the technical security criteria and the registration procedure within ninety days of the law's entry into force.

Article 22 requires that any use of personal data in AI development, research or application follow the Ley para la Protección de Datos Personales, under ANIA and ACE supervision.

When LexLint raises it

  • crawls_web
  • trains_models
  • generates_content
  • high_risk_decisions

Read the law

Official decree text, Asamblea Legislativa de El Salvador, published Diario Oficial No. 43, Tomo 446, 3 de marzo de 2025

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