Lisbon, Nov. 3, 2025 (Lusa) - The Secretary of State for Digitalisation, Bernardo Correia, announced on Monday that he will "approve the national data policy by the end of the year" to ensure "open data, transparency and trust".

"We're also going to look at and approve the national data policy by the end of the year, also to ensure now that data should be open, transparent and trustworthy [...] that people should have in data," said the minister, who was speaking in the joint parliamentary committees on State Reform and Local Government and on Budget, Finance and Public Administration, about the State Budget for 2026.

On top of "digital services, a state data service must be built that allows the state to be more intelligent", continued Bernardo Correia.

He also emphasised the need for the state to "be able to produce better public policies" that are based on "information and assessed in terms of their impact using the data that the public administration, in a fragmented way, already has today".

In his speech, he said that there will be concrete measures that "essentially have to do with increasing the adoption of artificial intelligence, both in public administration and in companies".

Bernardo Correia did not announce any measures, reserving them for the "official announcement".

"I'm also going to forbid myself from announcing measures here, which we'll leave to the official announcement," he said.

These measures will also be extended to the general population, namely in the "development of talent, talent in academia, in companies and also within the State".

"Artificial intelligence is a very powerful tool; it has to be handled in the most responsible way possible, so we obviously also want to establish a governance structure for the responsibility of artificial intelligence, which will be announced as part of the National Artificial Intelligence Agenda," said the Secretary of State.

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