Italy Law No. 132/2025 on Artificial Intelligence (Legge 23 settembre 2025, n. 132)

Summary

Italy's Law No. 132/2025 ("Disposizioni e deleghe al Governo in materia di intelligenza artificiale") is the first organic national AI statute adopted by an EU member state. It was adopted 23 September 2025, published in Gazzetta Ufficiale Serie Generale n. 223 on 25 September 2025, and entered into force 10 October 2025. It does not replace the EU AI Act (Reg. (EU) 2024/1689): Art. 1(2) requires the law to be interpreted and applied in conformity with that Regulation, and Art. 2 imports the AI-system/AI-model definitions from it. The Act is part principles-and-sector statute, part delegation (delega) to the Government. Capo I sets human-centric principles (Arts. 1–6), including an explicit national-security/defence/intelligence/cybersecurity carve-out from the law's scope (Art. 6) and a parental-consent rule for under-14 access (Art. 4(4)). Capo II adds sector rules: healthcare (Art. 7 — non-discrimination in access, patient information, human medical decision reserved), labour (Art. 11 — transparency and worker-notification duties + Art. 12 workplace-AI Observatory), intellectual professions (Art. 13), public administration (Art. 14), and the judiciary (Art. 15 — interpretation, fact/evidence evaluation and adoption of measures reserved exclusively to the magistrate). Capo III governs national strategy and authorities, designating AgID and ACN as the national AI authorities (Art. 20), with Banca d'Italia/CONSOB/IVASS as market-surveillance authorities. Art. 23 funds investment in AI/cybersecurity/quantum; Arts. 16 and 24 delegate organic decrees (incl. training-data rules and EU-AI-Act alignment) within 12 months. Capo IV recognises copyright in AI-assisted works requiring the author's human intellectual contribution and adds a text-and-data-mining provision (Art. 25; new Art. 70-septies l. 633/1941). Capo V adds criminal provisions, notably a new offence of illicit dissemination of AI-generated/altered content — deepfakes — punishable by 1–5 years (Art. 26; new Art. 612-quater c.p.), plus AI aggravating circumstances. The Italian primary text was read verbatim; English provision excerpts are marked isParaphrase where they render the Italian.

At a glance

Adopted

2025-09-23

Effective

2025-10-10

Status

in force

Primary source

Legge 23 settembre 2025, n. 132, «Disposizioni e deleghe al Governo in materia di intelligenza artificiale», pubblicata nella Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana, Serie Generale n. 223 del 25 settembre 2025 (codice redazionale 25G00143); in vigore dal 10 ottobre 2025.

Source URL

https://www.gazzettaufficiale.it/eli/id/2025/09/25/25G00143/sg