AI disclosure requirements in Slovenia: what applies from 2 August 2026

The EU AI Act's transparency obligations are a Union-wide regulation, so the substance is the same in Slovenia as everywhere in the EU: from 2 August 2026, AI systems that interact with people must disclose they're AI, synthetic media must carry machine-readable marking, and deepfakes and certain AI-generated public-interest text must be labeled. What differs country by country is who enforces it, in what language your users encounter it, and how quickly complaints turn into questions — which is what this page covers for Slovenia.

Enforcement in Slovenia

Slovenia's implementing law, ZIUDHPUI, took effect on 21 November 2025, allocating supervision across five market surveillance authorities: the Agency for Communication Networks and Services (AKOS), the Information Commissioner, the Bank of Slovenia, the Insurance Supervision Agency, and the Market Inspectorate. AKOS is the single point of contact and is also responsible for standing up Slovenia's AI regulatory sandbox by 2 August 2026. By mid-2026, the AI Act's scope, definitions, prohibited-practices rules, governance layer, general-purpose AI model rules, and penalty provisions were already applicable in Slovenia; the Article 50 transparency duties — alongside the main Annex III high-risk obligations — start on 2 August 2026, with the EU's penalty ceiling of €15 million or 3% of worldwide turnover.

The four duties, as they show up on your site

• Article 50(1) — chatbot disclosure. Any AI system interacting with visitors must make that clear no later than the first interaction, in a clear and distinguishable way. A line in your terms doesn't satisfy it.
• Article 50(2) — machine-readable marking. AI-generated audio, images, video, and text must be marked in a machine-readable, detectable format. For generative systems already on the market before 2 Aug 2026, this specific duty has a transition until 2 Dec 2026 — the rest does not.
• Article 50(3) — emotion recognition & biometric categorisation. People exposed must be informed the system is operating.
• Article 50(4) — deepfake and AI-text labels. Visible disclosure for deepfakes, and for AI-generated or manipulated text published to inform the public on matters of public interest.

Slovenia-specific practicalities

• AKOS as single point of contact plus sandbox operator makes it the logical first place to watch for early Slovenian guidance on how Article 50 checks will actually be run
• The five-authority split routes AI in financial services to the Bank of Slovenia and insurance-related AI to the Insurance Supervision Agency — map your sector before assuming AKOS is your regulator
• Slovenia had several AI Act layers (scope, prohibited practices, governance, GPAI rules, penalties) live well before August 2026 — a sign the institutional machinery has had real time to mature ahead of Article 50's own start date
• Keep the Slovenian-language first-interaction screenshot in your evidence file, dated, alongside your widget settings export

Disclosure language should match your user-facing language. For a site serving Slovenia in Slovenian, a first-message line such as "Pogovarjate se z AI pomočnikom" (you're chatting with an AI assistant) is the pattern to aim for — at first interaction, not in splošni pogoji poslovanja.

Common questions