{"slug":"italy","name":"Italy","short_name":"Italy","iso_code":"IT","jurisdiction_type":"country","region":"Europe","subregion":"Southern Europe","overview":"Italy is the first EU member state with a comprehensive national AI law: Law No. 132 of 23 September 2025 lays down principles and delegations for AI, designates the Agency for Digital Italy (AgID) and the National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN) as national authorities, adds sector rules for health, work, professions, justice and public administration, restricts access for children under 14 and creates new criminal offences for harmful deepfakes. It sits alongside the EU AI Act and the Italian AI strategy 2024–2026. The Garante (data-protection authority) has been active on generative AI, including its 2023 order against ChatGPT and a 2024 fine.","regulatory_status_summary":"EU AI Act applies; national AI law in force since 10 October 2025; AI strategy 2024–2026 as policy; active data-protection enforcement.","binding_vs_guidance":"Binding: Law No. 132/2025 on artificial intelligence. Strategy or guidance: Italian AI Strategy 2024–2026.","current_priorities":"Implementing the delegated decrees under Law 132/2025, AgID/ACN supervision, health and public-administration use, deepfake offences.","regulators":[{"name":"Agenzia per l'Italia Digitale (AgID)","url":"https://www.agid.gov.it/","role":"National AI authority for notification, promotion and sandboxes under Law 132/2025"},{"name":"Agenzia per la Cybersicurezza Nazionale (ACN)","url":"https://www.acn.gov.it/","role":"National AI authority for supervision, inspection and sanctions"},{"name":"Garante per la protezione dei dati personali","url":"https://www.garanteprivacy.it/","role":"Data-protection authority; generative-AI enforcement"}],"official_sources":[{"title":"Legge 23 settembre 2025, n. 132","publisher":"Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana","url":"https://www.gazzettaufficiale.it/eli/id/2025/09/25/25G00146/sg","document_date":"2025-09-25","document_type":"legislation","tier":1},{"title":"Strategia Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale 2024-2026","publisher":"Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri / AgID","url":"https://www.agid.gov.it/sites/agid/files/2024-07/Strategia_italiana_per_l_Intelligenza_artificiale_2024-2026.pdf","document_date":"2024-07-22","document_type":"strategy","tier":1}],"related_jurisdictions":["eu","spain","france"],"url":"https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/italy","source":{"official_source_url":"https://www.gazzettaufficiale.it/eli/id/2025/09/25/25G00146/sg","source_title":"Legge 23 settembre 2025, n. 132","source_publisher":"Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana","source_document_date":"2025-09-25","source_reference":null,"source_tier":1,"last_checked_at":"2026-09-26","last_verified_at":"2026-09-26","review_status":"verified","confidence_level":"medium","content_version":1,"change_summary":"Added in the September 2026 global coverage expansion; overview composed from the listed instruments and official sources. Reviewer to confirm regulators and status.","reviewed_by":"Bhaskar Bhatt"},"policies":[{"slug":"italy-italian-ai-strategy-2024-2026","id":"AIPT-POL-0110","permanent_url":"https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0110","title":"Strategia Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale 2024-2026","short_title":"Italian AI Strategy 2024–2026","jurisdiction":"italy","instrument_type":"strategy","status":"adopted","is_binding":false,"ai_specific":true,"issuing_body":"Presidency of the Council of Ministers (Department for Digital Transformation) and AgID","summary_plain":"The 2024–2026 strategy, drafted by an expert committee for the Department for Digital Transformation and published in July 2024, organises action around research, public administration, enterprises and training, with a foundation-model and compute agenda, an AI foundation to coordinate delivery and a monitoring framework.","adopted_on":"2024-07-22","in_force_on":null,"applies_from":null,"official_source_url":"https://www.agid.gov.it/sites/agid/files/2024-07/Strategia_italiana_per_l_Intelligenza_artificiale_2024-2026.pdf","last_verified_at":"2026-09-26","reviewed_by":"Bhaskar Bhatt","content_version":1,"review_status":"verified","confidence_level":"medium","updated_at":"2026-10-15T06:46:24+00:00","url":"https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/italy-italian-ai-strategy-2024-2026"},{"slug":"italy-law-132-2025-ai","id":"AIPT-POL-0111","permanent_url":"https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0111","title":"Legge 23 settembre 2025, n. 132 – Disposizioni e deleghe al Governo in materia di intelligenza artificiale","short_title":"Law No. 132/2025 on artificial intelligence","jurisdiction":"italy","instrument_type":"act","status":"in_force","is_binding":true,"ai_specific":true,"issuing_body":"Parliament of the Italian Republic","summary_plain":"Italy's framework AI law, published in the Official Gazette on 25 September 2025 and in force from 10 October 2025. It states principles (human-centric, transparent, safe AI; protection of fundamental rights), sets sector rules for healthcare (AI as support, not replacement, for clinical decisions), employment (information to workers, an AI-at-work observatory), intellectual professions (client disclosure), justice (judge decides; AI only for organisational support) and public administration, requires parental consent for children under 14, designates AgID and ACN as national authorities, delegates the government to align national law with the EU AI Act, and creates a criminal offence for unlawful dissemination of AI-generated or manipulated content with aggravating circumstances for other crimes committed with AI.","adopted_on":"2025-09-17","in_force_on":"2025-10-10","applies_from":null,"official_source_url":"https://www.gazzettaufficiale.it/eli/id/2025/09/25/25G00146/sg","last_verified_at":"2026-09-26","reviewed_by":"Bhaskar Bhatt","content_version":1,"review_status":"verified","confidence_level":"high","updated_at":"2026-10-15T06:46:24+00:00","url":"https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/italy-law-132-2025-ai"}]}