Besides the EU AI Act, three acts have been adopted which regulate AI in Denmark.
The first act - the Act on supplementary provisions to the regulation on artificial intelligence - implements specific provisions in relation to the AI Act. The act does not contain any material changes to the regulation of AI; it only seeks to implement provisions concerning Governance, i.e. supervisory authority/authorities, sanctions etc. pursuant to the AI Act. The act has been applicable since the 2nd of August 2025. The Act currently only provides for enforcement measures pursuant the AI Act's rules on prohibited AI practices, cf. the AI Act article 5. Currently, a proposal for amending tje Act on supplementary provisions to the regulation on artificial intelligence awaits formal adoption into law via the legislative procedure in the Danish Parliament. Please see the answer to the next question for more details on this proposed act.
The second act - the Act amending the SU Act - seeks to regulate The Ministry of Higher Education and Science's use of AI concerning state educational support (in Danish, statens uddannelsesstøtte (”SU”)) which aims to support and ease case management as well as to shorten the case processing time. The act has been applicable since the 1st of July 2025.
The third act - the Act amending the working environment act - regulates The Danish Working Environment Authority's use of AI in relation to their tasks as the supervisory authority overseeing compliance with work environment regulation. The amendment act seeks to support and ease the Authority's work in relation thereto. In the legislation's preparatory work, it is mentioned that the regulation will allow for the Danish Working Environment Authority to use an AI assistant as a decision-support tool, which, based on the information collected during an inspection visit, can prepare a draft administrative decision. The act has been applicable since the 1st of July 2025.
Other than the guidelines published by the Commission concerning the definition of an AI-system, prohibited practices and GPAI-models, The Agency for Digital Government (Digitaliseringsstyrelsen) has published guidelines concerning AI-literacy and on prohibited AI practices, cf. AI Act article 5.
The Danish Data Protection Agency has published guidelines related to public authorities’ processing of personal data in relation to AI, albeit in the light of the GDPR and not AI regulation. Moreover, the Danish Data Protection Agency has issued an opinion on a public authority’s use of an AI profiling tool (in the light of the GDPR). The Danish Data Protection Agency has also published a template for DPIAs in relation to AI.
The Agency for IT and Learning ("Styrelsen for IT og Læring") has published guidelines related to educational institutions' use of AI which focuses on both the AI Act and the GDPR. Although the guidelines' target audience is educational institutions, the guidelines provide a general introduction to the compliance work associated with AI systems in relation to the AI Act and the GDPR. The guidelines include a checklist in schedule B ("bilag B") which provides a general overview of the central obligations in the AI Act and the GDPR when deploying AI systems.
The Agency for Digital Government's guidelines on AI Literacy
The Danish Data Protection Agency's guidelines and decision:
The Danish Government along with Local Government Denmark ("Kommunernes Landsforening", "KL") Danish Regions ("Danske Regioner") has in a cooperative effort established "The Digital Taskforce for Artificial Intelligence". The taskforce issued a report, in which is it an ambition is to free up at least 30.000 full-time equivalent jobs in the public sector as a result of implementing AI by 2035 at the latest, but preferably already by 2030. In the same statement, it is stated that it is an ambition for at least 80% of public authorities in Denmark to utilize AI in their tasks.
Informal policy statements are also made on an ongoing basis by politicans and industry asscociations, however, none which have given rise to real goverment attention as of yet.
Certain areas of copyright law are being changed, e.g. following TDM, which has links to AI as a technology, but as of yet not specifically or directly addressed.
The Danish Ministry of Culture established an expert group in June 2024 whose purpose was to identify challenges in relation to AI and copyright, including legal challenges. The group published their findings in an extensive report on the 15th of September 2025. An example of the group's findings include changing the DSM-directive's article 4 concerning TDM to be opt-in instead of opt-out. The groups finding are, however, only recommendations and therefore require legislative measures to be adopted.
Yes, as mentioned in the answer to the first question, acts have been adopted which regulate both the Ministry of Higher Education and Science's and the Danish Working Environment Authority's use of AI. The acts allow for the ministries to issue executive orders with the purpose of constituting the authorities' underlying legal basis for the processing of personal data with reference to the GDPR article 6(1)(e) which requires an underlying legal basis in national law or Union law, cf. article 6(3), and article 9(2)(g). Both executive orders have been issued, and the Danish Data Protection Agency has assessed that the Ministry of Higher Education's executive order on the use of AI in context of SU provides for a sufficiently clear underlying legal basis for the processing of personal data via AI.
The Danish Data Protection Agency has furthermore issued decisions and guidelines in relation to AI, albeit in the light of the GDPR.
From the adopted legislation which will appoint the relevant authorities pursuant to the AI Act, the Agency for Digital Government (Digitaliseringsstyrelsen) will be the national coordinating supervisory authority.
Furthermore, the Agency for Digital Government is the notifying authority pursuant to AI Act article 70(1), and the Agency for Digital Government, the Danish Data Protection Agency and the Danish Court Authority are in conjunction the market surveilance authorities pursuant to AI Act article 70(1).
As noted in the answer to the second question, this framework for enforcement will be split into sector-specific supervision and enforcement if the amendment act is adopted in its current iteration, and the roles on supervisory authorities will not be limited to the Agency for Digital Government, the Danish Data Protection Agency and the Danish Court Authority.
The Danish Data Protection Agency has in their focus areas for supervision in 2026 stated that they will focus their supervisory efforts inter alia on the use of AI in the health sector in the context of monitoring and controlling citizens in care.
Yes, the Danish Act on Social Services § 128 a(2) specifically mentions artificial intelligence in the context of allowing the Minister of Social Affairs and Housing to decide when to allow for artificial intelligence to be used with reference to the Danish Act on Social Services’ chapter VII (Use of force and other intervention). As mentioned in the answer to the first question, certain acts have been amended to allow for the use of AI in specific use cases.
*Information is accurate up to 21 January 2026
