Email spam legislation by country
The following table represents laws in respective countries which restrict the use of Email spam.
Note: Countries marked with red are listed in the Spamhaus' Worst Spam Origin Countries.
| Country | Legislation | Section | Implemented | Ref | |
| Personal Data Protection Act | § 27 | October 30, 2000 | - | ||
| Spam Act 2003 | Part 2 | 12 December 2003 | - | ||
| Austrian Telecommunications Act 1997 | § 107 | - | |||
| Wet van 11 maart 2003 betreffende bepaalde juridische aspecten van de diensten van de informatiemaatschappij / Loi du 11 mars 2003 sur certains aspects juridiques des services de la société de l'information ' | 27 March 2003 | - | |||
| None | |||||
| The Law of electronic commerce | Чл.5,6 | December 26, 2006 | - | ||
| Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act 2000 | - | ||||
| Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act 2010 | - | ||||
| Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation 2014 | - | ||||
| Regulations on Internet email Services | 30 March 2006 | ||||
| Law of Habeas Data | § 6 | 31 December 2008 | - | ||
| Electronic Communications Act | § 107 | 22 July 2017 | - | ||
| Regulation of Electronic Communications and Postal Services Law of 2004 | § 6 | - | |||
| Act No. 480/2004 Coll., on Certain Information Society Services | § 7 | - | |||
| Danish marketing practices act | - | ||||
| Electronic Communications Act | § 103 | 1 January 2005 | - | ||
| Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications | Art. 13 | 31 October 2003 | - | ||
| Act on Data Protection in Electronic Communications | - | ||||
| Loi du 21 juin 2004 pour la confiance dans l’économie numérique ' | Art. 22 | - | |||
| Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb ' | § 7 | - | |||
| Unsolicited Electronic Messaging Ordinance | 22 December 2007 | ||||
| Act CVIII of 2001 on Electronic Commerce | Art. 14 | - | |||
| None ' | |||||
| Undang-undang Informasi dan Transaksi Elektronic | - | ||||
| European Communities Regulations 2003 | Section 13 | 6 November 2003 | - | ||
| Communications Law, 1982 | Art. 30 | December 2008 | - | ||
| Data Protection Code | § 130 | - | |||
| The Law on Regulation of Transmission of Specified Electronic Mail | April 2002 | ||||
| Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 | - | ||||
| Data Protection Act | § 10 | - | |||
| - | - | ||||
| Dutch Telecommunications Act | Art. 11.7 | - | |||
| Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007 | All | 5 September 2007 | - | ||
| Lov om kontroll med markedsføring og avtalevilkår mv. | Chap. 3 - § 15 | 1 March 2001 | - | ||
| Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance 2007 | § 14 | 31 December 2007 | - | ||
| None | |||||
| Spam Control Act 2007 | 15 June 2007 | - | |||
| Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, 2002 | § 45 | - | |||
| Consumer Protection Act, 2008 | § 11 | October 2010 | - | ||
| Act on Promotion of Information and Communication and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection of 2001 | Art. 50 | - | |||
| Act 34/2002 of 11 July on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce | - | ||||
| Marknadsföringslagen "Swedish Marketing Act" | § 13b | - | |||
| Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb | Art. 3, Buchst. o | - | |||
| Elektronik Ticaretin Düzenlenmesi Hakkında Kanun "Act About Regulation of E-Commerce"'' | |||||
| Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 | |||||
| Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 | All | 16 December 2003 |