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ANIA — El Salvador Charters a National AI Agency and Mandatory AI Registry

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Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 47% 60/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

El Salvador's 2025 AI law created ANIA, an autonomous national AI agency under the Presidency that runs a mandatory/voluntary AI registry and must design a risk-assessment framework for AI systems handling sensitive data within 90 days.

Details

Promoter: Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (ANIA), Presidency of the Republic of El Salvador
Period: 2025–2026
Keywords: AI regulation, compliance, registry, risk assessment

Context

El Salvador's Legislative Assembly passed Legislative Decree No. 234 (26 February 2025), creating the National Artificial Intelligence Agency (ANIA) as an autonomous body attached to the Presidency, tasked with coordinating and supervising AI development, promotion and compliance nationwide.

Objectives

ANIA administers a National Registry of Development, Innovation and Application of AI — mandatory for operators whose systems meet defined risk criteria, voluntary for others — and was given 90 days to design a risk-assessment framework for AI systems processing confidential, reserved or personal data.

Implementation

Indicative cost: Medium (€50k–€500k)
Time to results: Medium (1–3 years)
Staffing & skills: ANIA regulatory staff, risk-assessment framework designers

Conditions for success

clear registration criteria distinguishing mandatory vs. voluntary registrants
90-day risk-assessment framework for sensitive-data AI systems

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Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

C-NAPSE web research — accessed 2026-09-13
Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (ANIA), Presidency of the Republic of El Salvador — accessed 2026-09-13
Legislative Assembly of El Salvador — accessed 2026-09-13
BLP Legal analysis of the AI promotion law — accessed 2026-09-13

Quality score: 60/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 47% in this catalogue (1041 scored practices)

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Evaluation

Evaluated by C-NAPSE

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Evidence of impact / measured public value1/3

The agency and registry are legally established with a concrete 90-day rulemaking deadline, but no enforcement, registration-volume or compliance outcome data was available in the sources reviewed.

Transparency, fairness & accountability2/3

The founding law was passed by the Legislative Assembly and published in the official gazette (Diario Oficial No. 43), and the registry's liability-protection criteria are publicly documented, though no registry data has been published yet.

Transferability / demonstrated replication1/3

A national AI promotion-and-registry law is a model other countries could adapt, but no other jurisdiction has yet replicated ANIA's specific registry-and-liability design.

Scalability beyond pilot2/3

ANIA's registry and risk-assessment mandate apply nationwide to all qualifying AI operators from the law's outset, rather than being confined to a pilot region or sector.

Governance, capability & sustainability3/3

ANIA is chartered as a functionally and technically autonomous institution attached to the Presidency with defined statutory powers to coordinate and supervise compliance, per Legislative Decree No. 234.

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