N/A other than the AI Act.
On 6 October 2025, the Swedish Government published a Government Official Report (SOU 2025:101) proposing complementary Swedish legislation to implement the AI Act. The proposal includes measures on market surveillance, sanctions, regulatory sandboxes, and designates the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (Sw. Post- och telestyrelsen) as the main market surveillance authority, with 11 market surveillance authorities and 2 notifying authorities proposed. The report is available in Swedish here
On 19 December 2025, the Swedish Government published a Memorandum (Ds 2025:32) proposing new legislation on a licensing process for the use of AI systems for remote biometric identification (ex-post) by police and Swedish Customs (Sw. Tullverket). The proposal entails that the Swedish Police Authority (Sw. Polismyndigheten), the Swedish Security Service (Sw. Säkerhetspolisen) and the Swedish Customs in certain cases may be granted permission to use the technology in investigations to carry out targeted searches for persons suspected of having committed crimes or who have been convicted of committing crimes. The Memorandum is available in Swedish here
On 21 January 2025, the Swedish Data Protection Authority (Sw. Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten) and the Swedish Agency for Digital Government (Sw. Myndigheten för Digital Förvaltning) published joint guidelines on the use of generative AI within the public sector. Additionally, the Swedish Data Protection Authority has published general guidance on the interplay between AI and the GDPR. The guidelines are available in Swedish here.
In February 2025 the Swedish Government’s AI commission published a Government Official Report (SOU) which presented an analysis on what Sweden's future direction in AI, concrete proposals to enhance the Swedish AI ecosystem, and visions of achievable future goals in AI. The report contains in Annex 2 the AI commission's roadmap for Sweden. This roadmap highlights that ethical guidelines should consider how the use of AI may affect children's rights, and that schools have an important mission to make clear that AI should not be considered a miracle cure that can replace children's need for solid basic knowledge and training in analytical skills to understand and interpret their world. This report is available in Swedish here.
On 4 February 2025 the Swedish Government’s AI commission published a Government Official Report (SOU 2025:12) which presented an analysis on what Sweden's future direction in AI, concrete proposals to enhance the Swedish AI ecosystem, and visions of achievable future goals in AI. The report contains in Annex 2 the AI commission's roadmap for Sweden. This roadmap highlights that ethical guidelines should consider how the use of AI may affect children's rights, and that schools have an important mission to make clear that AI should not be considered a miracle cure that can replace children's need for solid basic knowledge and training in analytical skills to understand and interpret their world. This report is available in Swedish here
On 6 December 2024, the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (Sw. Finansinspektionen) published a report on the use of AI within the Swedish financial sector. The report concludes that the use of generative AI has expanded rapidly and widely both among employees and companies' installations of AI systems. This report is available in Swedish here.
On 13 March 2025, the Swedish Data Protection Authority has published a report in which it emphasised that one of its focus areas for year 2025 is AI. This report is available in Swedish here.
The joint guidelines referred to in answers above include a specific section addressing copyright and AI. Please note that these guidelines are intended for the public sector. This section is available in Swedish here.
The Swedish Intellectual Property Office (Sw. Patent- och registreringsverket) has published guidance on several IP aspects relating to AI.
The Swedish Data Protection Authority has also published general guidance on the interface between AI and the GDPR. The guidance is available in Swedish here and here.
Additionally, the guidelines referred to in answers above include specific sections addressing data protection and AI. Please note that these guidelines are intended for the public sector.
SOU 2025:101 proposes that the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority be designated as the main market surveillance authority for the AI Act. Alongside PTS, the Swedish Data Protection Authority and the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority share joint responsibility for supervising high-risk AI systems. Additionally, nine other existing sector-specific market surveillance authorities have been assigned responsibility for overseeing high-risk AI systems related to products within their respective areas of competence.
The Swedish Data Protection Authority holds primary responsibility for monitoring prohibited AI practices, whilst the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority and the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority provide supporting oversight in this area. Finally, the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority and the Swedish Data Protection Authority share joint responsibility for enforcing transparency requirements under the AI Act.
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The Swedish Medical Products Agency (Sw. Läkemedelsverket) published guidance on the use of AI within the Swedish healthcare sector on 12 September 2023. The guidance is available in Swedish here.
On 25 March 2025, the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority has published a short guidance on the use of AI for money investments. The guidance is addressed to consumers. This guidance is available in Swedish here.
*Information is accurate up to 21 January 2026
