E-mail spam legislation by country

The following table represents laws in respective countries which restrict the use of E-mail spam.

Note: Countries marked with red are listed in the Spamhaus' Worst Spam Origin Countries.

	Country	Legislation	Section	Implemented	Ref
	Argentina	Personal Data Protection Act (2000)	§27	October 30, 2000
	Australia	Spam Act 2003	Part 2	12 December 2003
	Austria	Austrian Telecommunications Act 1997	§107
	Belgium	Loi du 11 mars 2003		27 March 2003
	Brazil	None (loosely; Movimento Brasileiro de Combate ao Spam)
	Canada	Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act 2000 (PIPEDA)
	Canada	Bill C-27 Electronic Commerce Protection Act 2009 (TBA) (ECPA)
	China	Regulations on Internet E-Mail Services		30 March 2006
	Cyprus	Regulation of Electronic Communications and Postal Services Law of 2004	§6
	Czech Republic	Act No. 480/2004 Coll., on Certain Information Society Services	§7
	Denmark	Danish marketing practices act	§6
	European Union	Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications	Art.13	31 October 2003
	Finland	Act on Data Protection in Electronic Communications (516/2004)
	France	Loi du 21 juin 2004 pour la confiance dans l’économie numérique ("Law of June 21 2004 for the confidence in the numerical economy")	Art.22
	Germany	Gesetz gegen Unlauteren Wettbewerb (UWG) ("Act against Unfair Competition")	Art.7
	Hong Kong	Unsolicited Electronic Messaging Ordinance		22 December 2007
	Hungary	Act CVIII of 2001 on Electronic Commerce	Art.14
	India	None (loosely; Information Technology Act, 2000 §67)
	Indonesia	Undang-undang Informasi dan Transaksi Elektronic (ITE) (Internet Law)
	Ireland	European Communities (Electronic Communications Networks and Services) (Data Protection and Privacy) Regulations 2003	Section 13 (1) (b)	6 November 2003
	Israel	Communications Law (Telecommunications and Broadcasting), 1982 (Amendment 2008)	Art.30	December 2008
	Italy	Data Protection Code (Legislative Decree no. 196/2003)	§130
	Japan	The Law on Regulation of Transmission of Specified Electronic Mail		April 2002
	Malaysia	Communications and Multimedia Act 1998
	Malta	Data Protection Act (CAP 440)	§10
	Mexico	None
	Netherlands	Dutch Telecommunications Act	Art.11.7
	New Zealand	Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007	All	5 September 2007
	Pakistan	Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance 2007	§14	31 December 2007
	Russia	None (Loosley Russian Civil Code: Art.309)
	Singapore	Spam Control Act 2007		15 June 2007
	South Korea	Act on Promotion of Information and Communication and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection of 2001	Art.50
	Spain	Act 34/2002 of 11 July on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce
	Sweden	Marknadsföringslagen (1995:450) "Swedish Marketing Act"	§13b
	United Kingdom	Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003
	United States	Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (CAN-SPAM Act of 2003)	All	16 December 2003

The following table represents laws in respective countries which allow the use of E-mail spam.

	Country	Legislation	Section	Implemented	Ref
	Bulgaria	The Law of electronic commerce (2006)	Чл.5,6	December 26, 2006

See also

• E-mail spam
• Spamming
• Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE)
• List of countries by number of Internet users

External links

• Piercing the Corporate Veil and Corporate Groups