Italy passes its own law on artificial intelligence: new rules effective October 2025
By Giacomo Lusardi, Marianna Riedo, DLA Piper, September 30, 2025
During the session of September 17, 2025, the Italian Senate approved Bill No. 1146-B, entitled “Provisions and delegated powers to the Government regarding artificial intelligence.” The text was published on the Italian Official Journal as Law No. 132 of 2025 and is set to become applicable starting from October 10, 2025.
The new law (the “Italian AI Law”), divided into 28 articles split into six chapters, outlines fundamental principles, areas of application, national strategies, protection of rights, responsibilities, and international cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence (“AI”). It does not introduce new obligations with respect to Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (“AI Act”), but rather complementary provisions based on the requirements delegated to Member States by the AI Act itself and to account for the specificities of the national context.
The Senate’s final approval upheld the amendments introduced by the Chamber of Deputies in June 2025, which had eased certain technical constraints and redefined control mechanisms, while introducing clarifications and additions aimed at strengthening consistency with the European framework and expanding democratic and social guarantees. The conclusion of the legislative process therefore hands the country its first national regulatory framework on artificial intelligence: an important framework, but one that, as we will see, still needs to be filled in.
