# Legge 23 settembre 2025, n. 132 – Disposizioni e deleghe al Governo in materia di intelligenza artificiale

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: Italy
- **Instrument type**: Act / statute
- **Status**: In force
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Issuing body**: Parliament of the Italian Republic
- **Adopted**: 2025-09-17
- **Published**: 2025-09-25
- **In force**: 2025-10-10

## In brief

Law No. 132/2025 on artificial intelligence is a binding act of Italy, issued by the Parliament of the Italian Republic. It has been in force since 10 October 2025. Italy's framework AI law, published in the Official Gazette on 25 September 2025 and in force from 10 October 2025.

## Summary

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.

## Scope

Applies in Italy to public and private users, developers and providers of AI systems, with sector chapters for health, work, professions, justice and public administration; the EU AI Act continues to apply directly.

## Who it applies to

Providers and deployers of AI systems operating in Italy; employers using AI; professionals; healthcare bodies; public administrations; courts; platforms hosting AI-generated content.

## What organisations must do

Map AI systems against the sector chapters (health, work, professions, justice, public administration), add disclosure to workers and clients where required, apply the under-14 consent rule, and follow AgID/ACN guidance as delegated decrees are adopted.

## Key dates

2025-09-17: final Senate approval; 2025-09-25: published in Gazzetta Ufficiale; 2025-10-10: entry into force; implementing decrees due within 12 months of entry into force.

## Penalties

New Article 612-quater of the Criminal Code punishes unlawful dissemination of AI-generated or altered content that causes unjust harm with imprisonment from one to five years; AI use is an aggravating circumstance for listed offences. Administrative penalties for AI Act breaches are those set by the EU Regulation and national implementing decrees.

## Notes on dates

Entry into force on the fifteenth day after publication, per the Gazette notice; delegated-decree deadlines run from that date.

## Dated deadlines

- 2025-10-10 — Entry into force (precision: exact, status: scheduled)
- 2026-10-10 — Delegated decrees aligning national law with the EU AI Act (precision: exact, status: scheduled)

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0111 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0111; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/italy-law-132-2025-ai
- **Official source**: https://www.gazzettaufficiale.it/eli/id/2025/09/25/25G00146/sg
- **Source document**: Legge 23 settembre 2025, n. 132
- **Published by**: Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: high
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Legge 23 settembre 2025, n. 132 – Disposizioni e deleghe al Governo in materia di intelligenza artificiale" [AIPT-POL-0111, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0111 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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