Legislative Decree No. 179 of 7 October 2026 adapting national law to Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 on artificial intelligence, concerning the powers of the national authorities and the use of artificial intelligence in training

Summary

Italy's second legislative decree implementing the EU AI Act under Law 132/2025. AgID is the notifying authority; ACN is the market surveillance authority and single point of contact, with the Bank of Italy, CONSOB and IVASS for high-risk AI used in financial services and the data protection authority within Article 74(8) of the AI Act. ACN has inspection powers, including unannounced checks on real-world testing. Fines follow the AI Act ceilings and add up to EUR 1 million or 0.5% of turnover for breaches of Articles 27 and 86. AgID and ACN run a national AI sandbox. Employers must leave final employment decisions to a person, and workplace AI enters the occupational risk assessment.

Language

No English version of this instrument was found. The English title and the summary are the register's own, written from the sources below; for the exact wording use the Italian text.

Safety topics

Status notes

Adopted under Article 24 of Law 132/2025 after a preliminary deliberation of the Council of Ministers on 10 June 2026, the opinions of AgID, ACN, the data protection authority, the Unified Conference and the parliamentary committees, and a final deliberation on 4 August 2026; issued on 7 October 2026, published in Gazzetta Ufficiale, Serie Generale n. 234, of 8 October 2026, and in force from 23 October 2026. It has 54 articles in five chapters. ACN registers the Annex III point 2 high-risk systems nationally; a coordinating committee at the Prime Minister's Office sets the sandbox's priorities, and sandboxes for dual-use and judicial AI are to follow by regulation. Follow-up acts are due within 90 days (teacher training, costs of market surveillance), six months (AI training in the professions and in continuing medical education) and twelve months (parameters adjusting professionals' fair compensation to the risk class of the AI they use). Article 52 makes data, algorithms and mathematical methods for training AI systems protectable as trade secrets under the industrial property code.

Sources

Open the official source https://www.gazzettaufficiale.it/eli/id/2026/10/08/26G00200/sg

Secondary source: https://www.normattiva.it/eli/id/2026/10/08/26G00200/ORIGINAL

Local copy

Verification

History

1. 2026-10-17english_version: – → {"kind": "none found"} — the field was missing; no English text of the decree was found2026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2. 2026-10-17notes: Approved in preliminary form on 10 June 2026 (Atto del Governo n. 421, sent to t → Adopted under Article 24 of Law 132/2025 after a preliminary deliberation of the — rewritten from the preamble and Arts 10, 14, 27, 30, 38, 47, 49, 51 and 52; Atto del Governo n. 421, the Senate dates, the delegation deadline and the legal commentary are not in the stored files2026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
3. 2026-10-17safety_topics: ["accountability & liability", "risk-based classification", "evaluation & testin → ["accountability & liability", "risk-based classification", "evaluation & testin — 'human oversight' added for Art. 41 (final employment decisions reserved to a natural person) and Art. 48 (human supervision of AI in employment services)2026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
4. 2026-10-17summary: Second implementing decree under Law 132/2025, giving Italy's AI governance its → Italy's second legislative decree implementing the EU AI Act under Law 132/2025. — rewritten from the full text: Art. 4 (AgID notifying), Arts 5, 6 and 32 (ACN market surveillance and single point of contact; Bank of Italy, CONSOB, IVASS for high-risk AI in financial services; Garante within Art. 74(8)), Art. 15 (inspection powers; checks on real-world testing, also without notice), Art. 23 (fines, with the national ceiling of EUR 1 million or 0.5% for Arts 27 and 86), Art. 26 (sandbox run jointly by AgID and ACN), Arts 41 and 42 (final employment decisions by a person; AI in the occupational risk assessment)2026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

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Citation

Government of Italy (legislative decree adopted under Law 132/2025). Legislative Decree No. 179 of 7 October 2026 adapting national law to Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 on artificial intelligence, concerning the powers of the national authorities and the use of artificial intelligence in training [Decreto legislativo 7 ottobre 2026, n. 179 (GU Serie Generale n. 234 del 08-10-2026; 26G00200)]. 2026-10-07. https://www.gazzettaufficiale.it/eli/id/2026/10/08/26G00200/sg. Status: Adopted, not yet in force; verified 2026-10-17 (level A). Local copy archive/IT-03/2026-10-11/official.html retrieved 2026-10-11 19:16:25 UTC, SHA-256 4765126a9c7c9aff6286f513edc4377bf068484b9b87187aee064f1521407a58. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record IT-03.

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