What Italy has done nationally under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744: the accompanying law, which bodies it has designated as market surveillance authority, single point of contact and notifying authority, its Article 99 penalty regime, whether an Article 57 regulatory sandbox exists (the deadline is 2 August 2027), and any national guidance that reaches courts, law firms or legal-AI deployers. Each row is dated and sourced to the gazette, parliament or authority; titles in the original language are quoted, English titles marked where translated by us.
Italy’s Law No. 132/2025 on artificial intelligence was published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale and entered into force on 10 October 2025, setting national AI governance and delegated implementation rules.
“"Disposizioni e deleghe al Governo in materia di intelligenza artificiale"”
Designated authorities
Authority designation · 2025-10-10 · designated
National authorities for artificial intelligencetranslated
Autorità nazionali per l’intelligenza artificiale
Authority: AgID and ACN — market surveillance authority, single point of contact, notifying authority
Article 20 of Law 132/2025 designates AgID and the National Cybersecurity Agency as Italy’s national AI authorities, dividing innovation, notification, market surveillance, inspection and sanction functions.
“"AgID e ACN sono designate quali Autorità nazionali"”
Authority designation · 2025-10-10 · designated
Agency for Digital Italy (AgID)translated
Agenzia per l’Italia digitale (AgID)
Authority: AgID — notifying authority
Law 132/2025 gives AgID responsibility for promoting innovation and AI development and designates it as Italy’s notifying authority for conformity-assessment body procedures under the AI Act.
“"l’AgID è designata quale autorità di notifica"”
Authority designation · 2025-10-10 · designated
National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN)translated
Agenzia per la cybersicurezza nazionale (ACN)
Authority: ACN — market surveillance authority, single point of contact
Law 132/2025 assigns ACN market-surveillance, inspection and sanctions responsibilities and designates it as Italy’s single contact point for AI Act coordination.
“"l’ACN è altresì responsabile per la vigilanza del mercato"”
Regulatory sandbox (Art. 57)
Regulatory sandbox (Art. 57) · 2025-10-10 · announced
Experimentation spacestranslated
Spazi di sperimentazione
Authority: AgID and ACN — sandbox operator
Law 132/2025 provides for AI experimentation spaces run by AgID and ACN within their competences and requires consultation with the Ministry of Justice for judicial AI models and systems.
Law 132/2025 assigns AgID and ACN, within their respective competences, to manage experimentation spaces; Ministry of Justice is consulted for judicial AI systems.
“"spazi di sperimentazione normativa"”
Penalties (Art. 99)
Penalty regime (Art. 99) · 2025-10-10 · adopted
Delegations to the Government on artificial intelligencetranslated
Deleghe al Governo in materia di intelligenza artificiale
Law 132/2025 delegates the Government to adopt further measures for AI Act adaptation, including an effective, proportionate and dissuasive sanctions system, and separately adds AI-related criminal provisions.
Article 24 delegates further AI Act adaptation and sanctions; Article 26 introduces AI-related criminal-law provisions.
“"sistema di sanzioni effettive, proporzionate e dissuasive"”
Authorities in the EU dataset
Agenzia per la cybersicurezza nazionale— single-point-of-contactsource
Italy and the AI Act
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