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Italy has just become the first EU country to pass a standalone national AI law - putting guardrails around AI use, imposing criminal sanctions, and clarifying copyright in the AI era. JJ Shaw Roch Glowacki and Fiona Vickerstaff summarise the key provisions and explain why this matters for the UK.

Italy has just become the first EU country to pass a standalone national AI law - putting guardrails around AI use, imposing criminal sanctions, and clarifying copyright in the AI era. JJ Shaw Roch Glowacki and Fiona Vickerstaff summarise the key provisions and explain why this matters for the UK.

Italy has just become the first EU country to pass a standalone national AI law - putting guardrails around AI use, imposing criminal sanctions, and clarifying copyright in the AI era. JJ Shaw Roch Glowacki and Fiona Vickerstaff summarise the key provisions and explain why this matters for the UK.

The latest Op-Ed by Federica Paolucci examines the implementation of Article 77 of the AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), which requires Member States to designate public authorities responsible for supervising compliance with fundamental rights obligations. The article explains that Article 77 creates a procedural rather than substantive mechanism, granting limited powers to national rights authorities compared with market surveillance bodies. It notes that while many Member States have designated networks of existing regulators, Italy has yet to publish its list, exposing the absence of a national human rights institution and the broader weaknesses of the AI Act’s decentralised enforcement system. Read it now at EU Law Live: https://lnkd.in/dmzQNR5B #EULaw #AIA #FundamentalRights #TechRegulation #HumanRights #Governance #ArtificialIntelligence

Here is my Op-Ed for EU Law Live exploring the often-overlooked role of fundamental rights authorities in the governance architecture of the Artificial Intelligence Act. The piece examines why Article 77 of the AI Act, which requires Member States to designate the authorities responsible for supervising compliance with Union fundamental-rights obligations, remains one of the Regulation’s weakest links. Many Member States have met the deadline or partially disclosed their lists, including NHRI; Italy, however, has not, revealing a deeper and older institutional gap: the total absence of its own national human rights institution. This analysis is part of my broader research on the intersection between AI governance and fundamental-rights protection, and on how institutional design determines the real enforceability of the AI Act’s values. Thank you to the EU Law Live Team for this publication and, in particular, Guillermo Íñiguez for his comments.

🎉 𝐈𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐫𝐚!🇮🇹🤖 Law 132/2025 just came into force — a homegrown Italian take on the EU AI Act, blending innovation with strong constitutional values like privacy, human autonomy, and workers' rights. From Made-in-Italy priorities to new rules for AI in the workplace, healthcare, and IP — this law sets the tone for responsible, anthropocentric AI development. 🔍 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐰? 🧠 How it protects citizens? 💼 And why it’s not just a copy of the EU AI Act? 👇 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 👇 Credit Rosalia Anna D'Agostino and Andrea Lottini #AIAct #ItalyAI #LegalTech #ResponsibleAI #DigitalRights #Legal4Tech #AIRegulation #AICompliance #HumanCenteredAI

🇮🇹 Italy extends the EU AI Act – what does this mean for the rest of Europe? Italy has just become the first EU member state to pass a comprehensive AI law aligned with the EU AI Act. But it goes further: adding provisions on copyright, text/data mining, privacy, child access, and even criminal penalties for misuse (Reuters; The Guardian). This could set a precedent for other EU states — Germany already has its draft KI-MIG on the table, and countries like the Czech Republic and Finland are preparing their own implementation measures. ⚖️ Here’s the dilemma: On the one hand, these “EU-plus” national add-ons might raise the bar on rights protection and accountability. On the other hand, they risk creating fragmentation, forcing businesses to navigate country-by-country compliance ahead of the AI Act’s main deadlines. As a sceptic, I see trouble ahead: instead of harmonisation, we may be heading toward a patchwork of AI rules inside the Single Market. For companies, this could mean planning for an EU-plus baseline (the AI Act core + leading national add-ons) just to stay ahead of enforcement risks. 👉 What do you think — are these national laws a strength, pushing standards higher, or a weakness, undermining EU harmonisation before the AI Act even takes effect? #AIRegulation #EULaw #AIAct #TechPolicy

🍕 Italy is the first EU member state to pass a national AI law. Why does it matter ⁉️ 👉 Despite Italy's former Prime Minister, Mario Draghi's, call last week to pause the AI Act's high‑risk tier, Italy enacted a law to supplement those obligations, suggesting Member States are willing to move ahead nationally rather than wait for further EU‑level re-calibration. 👉 Italy's law supplements EU AI Act principles with additional operational, sector‑level duties and granular criminal offences on top of the AI Act baseline. This adds to the EU's layered regulatory matrix comprising regulations, directives and national laws. 👉 Historically, UK regulators have largely advocated for a more flexible "pro-innovation approach", and the UK is likely to continue with its "wait and see" approach to AI regulation. Italy alone will not force a UK pivot but a cascade of similar national measures across the EU will raise pressure on the UK to align to reduce friction, particularly around criminal sanctions and protections for minors. However, the longer it takes for the UK to establish its stance on AI regulation, the more likely it is that it will become a follower of one of the emerging approaches. 👉 On first reading, the new law raises interesting questions around text-and-data-mining. On first reading, the Italian exception is not limited to "AI training purposes" only. It would appear to permit TDM for wider AI use cases. This is against an uncertain backdrop where the EU Parliament are openly considering the possibility of tightening the TDM copyright exception under Art 4 of the DSM Directive to make it harder for AI companies to rely on this to train AI models. 👉 Companies offering AI into the EU may already need to start planning for country‑by‑country obligations that may apply ahead of key AI Act deadlines, and adopt an "EU‑plus" baseline (AI Act core plus leading national add‑ons) to mitigate fragmentation and enforcement risk. JJ, Fiona and I explore this in more detail below. #ai #artificialintelligence #airegulation

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Italy has become the first country in the EU to approve a comprehensive law regulating the use of artificial intelligence, including imposing prison terms on those who use the technology to cause harm, such as generating deepfakes, and limiting child access. Giorgia Meloni’s rightwing government said the legislation, which aligns with the EU’s landmark AI Act, is a decisive move in influencing how AI is used across Italy.