Overview
- The government gave preliminary approval to two legislative decrees that translate the EU AI Act into Italian law and define a national AI framework, a step confirmed after the June 10 Council of Ministers meeting.
- The decrees set a national governance architecture that makes AgID the notification authority and ACN the market surveillance and EU contact point, creates regulatory sandboxes for testing and keeps sectoral regulators such as the data protection authority in key roles.
- Police may use real‑time biometric identification only in narrowly defined cases — terrorism, grave threats, missing persons, trafficking — after prior judicial or public‑prosecutor authorization and for limited periods (for example a 15‑day cap), with mandatory qualified human review of AI outputs.
- The texts ban fully automated employment decisions that affect hiring, contract terms, dismissal or discipline, introduce stronger civil remedies (judicial access to technical logs and a presumption linking AI rule breaches to damage) and create a new criminal offence for failing to adopt required AI security measures with prison terms of roughly 1–5 years in serious cases.
- The decrees add education and public‑sector measures: AI literacy modules and teacher training funded by dedicated programmes, and new rules meant to govern widespread AI use already observed in the public administration; the texts now go to parliamentary committees and consultations with authorities and regions before final enactment.