# Swiss AI regulation (planned implementation of the Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence) > Switzerland does not yet have an AI-specific act. On 12 February 2025, the Federal Council discussed a stocktaking report on possible regulatory approaches to artificial intelligence and instructed the Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) to draft a consultation bill by the end of 2026, implementing in particular the Council of Europe's Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence. Until this process is concluded, there is no horizontal, AI-specific legal obligation in Switzerland; existing obligations, for instance under the FADP, already apply today regardless. - Type: Act, Voluntary - Scope: Switzerland - As of: 24 September 2026 - Page: https://sacosi.ch/en/norms/ch_ki_regulierung - Regulatory Check: https://sacosi.ch/en/regulation#normencheck ## When does CH AI Regulation apply to you? - Activity: Using AI (Recommend individual review): You use AI systems - a horizontal Swiss AI obligation does not yet exist today (as of 24.9.2026), but the consultation bill planned for the end of 2026 could bring transparency, data protection and oversight requirements for you in future. Nothing is currently binding; monitor the development. - Activity: AI provider (own AI products) (Recommend individual review): You provide AI systems - the same recommendation to monitor developments applies to you as a provider. According to the Federal Council, the planned regulation is to combine legally binding measures with voluntary elements such as industry solutions and self-commitments; their specific content has not yet been determined. - Activity: Public-sector clients (Recommend individual review): You supply public-sector clients - internal requirements for the use of AI within the federal administration itself already exist outside this consultation bill; whether and how these have knock-on effects on you as a supplier needs to be checked case by case. ## Exceptions - There is currently (as of 24.9.2026) no Swiss AI act and no AI ordinance; the regulation described here is a consultation bill still under preparation, with no legal force. - Sector-specific rules - for instance the FADP for automated individual decisions and profiling, or medical device law for AI in medical devices - remain unaffected by this process and already apply today regardless. ## Obligations - No statutory obligations arise from this bill as long as it has not been passed and brought into force. - Voluntarily possible: monitoring the consultation process and participating in industry solutions or self-commitment declarations, which the Federal Council is providing for alongside the legally binding bill. ## Evidence - Not applicable, as long as no applicable law exists. ## Deadlines - 12 February 2025: The Federal Council discusses a stocktaking report on possible AI regulatory approaches and instructs several offices, including the Federal Office of Justice, to develop regulatory measures. - 31 December 2026: Target date: by this point, the Federal Office of Justice is to submit a consultation bill for legally binding measures as well as an implementation plan for non-binding measures. This is a milestone for the bill, not the entry-into-force date of an act. ## Penalties None. No applicable act yet exists from which penalties could be derived. ## Frequently asked questions **Do I already have to comply with a Swiss AI regulation today?** No. No AI-specific Swiss act exists yet. On 12 February 2025, the Federal Council merely issued the mandate to develop a consultation bill by the end of 2026 - that is an early stage of lawmaking, not a current obligation. **What is the planned bill based on?** On implementing the Council of Europe's Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence: the consultation bill is to set out the legal measures needed in the areas of transparency, data protection, non-discrimination and oversight, combined with non-binding measures such as industry solutions or self-commitment declarations. **Which office is responsible?** The Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) coordinates the work, together with the Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM), the Directorate of International Law and other affected federal bodies. ## Open points of the research - The exact substantive content of the future consultation bill (specific obligations, scope, addressees, thresholds) has not yet been determined and could accordingly not be researched. - Whether and when the consultation bill will actually become applicable law, and with what entry-into-force date, is open. No such deadline was found and none was invented. - Whether, alongside the horizontal bill, sector-specific AI requirements with their own legal character already exist (e.g. for AI in medical devices or in the financial sector) was not examined in this research. ## Sources - [Künstliche Intelligenz - Regulierung](https://www.bk.admin.ch/de/regulierung), Bundeskanzlei (BK) / Bundesamt für Justiz (BJ), retrieved 24 September 2026 - [Künstliche Intelligenz](https://www.bk.admin.ch/de/ki), Bundeskanzlei (BK), retrieved 24 September 2026 --- A professional assessment based on publicly available sources, not legal advice. Whether a given rule applies in your specific case depends on circumstances that are not fully captured here. Source: SACOSI, Situational Awareness Consulting by Ivo Schönberner (https://sacosi.ch).