The Italy Senate has passed the Bill on Provisions and Delegation to the Government on Artificial Intelligence (AI). This bill (1) designates the Agency for Digital Italy (AgID) and the National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN) as the national authorities to ensure the implementation of the EU AI Act; (2) requires public procurement platforms to prioritise AI suppliers that process and store strategic data within national data centres, ensuring disaster recovery, business continuity, and high security and transparency standards; (3) specifies that AI systems used in the public sector, except those deployed abroad during military operations, must operate on servers located within Italy to safeguard citizens’ sensitive data; (4) amends Law No. 633 to state that copyright protection applies exclusively to works of human intellect and that works generated using AI tools are protected only if they represent the result of the author’s intellectual effort; and (5) expressly permits the reproduction and extraction of works or materials available online or in databases, provided there is legitimate access, for the purpose of text and data mining by AI models, including generative systems. The bill has now progressed to the Chamber of Deputies for deliberation.
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