User:Liggliluff/List of countries by dashcam restrictions
Albania[edit]
legal
- Must not obscure the view or distract the driver.[1]
Andorra[edit]
legal
Armenia[edit]
legal with conditions
Austria[edit]
highly illegal
- Owning a dashcam is illegal. Do not bring a dashcam with you.[2]
- Fine of 10 000 EUR. Fine of 25 000 EUR for repeated offenses.[2]
Azerbaijan[edit]
legal with conditions
Belarus[edit]
legal
- Must not obscure the view or distract the driver.[1]
Belgium[edit]
legal with conditions
- For private use only.[1][2]
- In an incident, you must inform all parties involved before sending or publishing the footage.[1][2]
Bosnia & Herzegovina[edit]
legal
- Must not obscure the view or distract the driver in any way.[1]
Bulgaria[edit]
legal
- Must not obscure the view or distract the driver.[1]
Croatia[edit]
legal
- Must not obscure the view or distract the driver in any way.[1]
Cyprus[edit]
legal
- No restrictions apply.[3]
Czechia[edit]
legal
- Must not obscure the view or distract the driver in any way.[1]
Denmark[edit]
legal
- Must not obscure the view or distract the driver in any way.[1]
Estonia[edit]
legal with conditions
Finland[edit]
legal with conditions
- Must censor faces and number plates.[1]
France[edit]
legal with conditions
- Must not obscure the view.[1][2]
- For private use only.[1][2]
- Cannot be published online.[1][2]
- Recorded evidence must be sent directly to the police.[1][2]
Georgia[edit]
legal with conditions
Germany[edit]
legal with conditions
- Must not obscure the view or distract the driver.[1][2]
- Must censor faces and number plates.[1][2]
- Footage must be continously overwritten and only saved if incidents occur.[1]
Greece[edit]
legal with conditions
- For private use only.[1]
- Not for publication or to be used in insurance purposes; only in defence of criminal charges.[1]
Hungary[edit]
legal with conditions
Iceland[edit]
legal
Ireland[edit]
legal
- Must not obscure the view or distract the driver in any way.[1]
Italy[edit]
legal
- Must not obscure the view or distract the driver in any way.[1]
Kosovo[edit]
unknown
Latvia[edit]
legal with conditions
- Must censor faces and number plates if sent to the police or used in court.[1]
Liechtenstein[edit]
unknown
Lithuania[edit]
legal with conditions
Luxembourg[edit]
illegal
Malta[edit]
legal with conditions
- Must not obscure the view of the road or distract the driver in any way.[1]
- Must censor faces and number plates.[1]
Moldova[edit]
legal with conditions
Monaco[edit]
unknown
Montenegro[edit]
legal with conditions
Netherlands[edit]
legal with conditions
- Must not obscure the view or impair the ability to drive safely in any way.[1]
- Must censor faces and number plates.[1]
North Macedonia[edit]
legal with conditions
Norway[edit]
legal
Poland[edit]
legal with conditions
Portugal[edit]
highly illegal
Romania[edit]
legal with conditions
Russia[edit]
legal
- Must not obscure the view or impair the ability to drive safely.[1]
San Marino[edit]
unknown
Serbia[edit]
legal with conditions
- Must not obscure the view of the road or distract the driver in any way.[1]
- Must censor faces and number plates.[1]
Spain[edit]
legal
- Must not obscure the view.[1]
Slovakia[edit]
legal with conditions
Slovenia[edit]
legal with conditions
Sweden[edit]
legal with conditions
- Must be mounted on the inside of the windshield and must only be operated with the driver's immediate vicinity.[5]
- Must not be mounted with screws or otherwise integrated in the front of the vehicle.[6]
- Must be turned off when the car is not in use and the driver is not in the vicinity.[5]
- Aside from within private property where the public has no access, such as a garage, for private use only.[6]
- Must not obscure the view of the road or distract the driver in any way.[1]
- Must censor faces and number plates.[1]
Switzerland[edit]
legal with conditions
- Not to be used for entertainment or documenting a journey. Must be recorded with a purpose.[2]
- It must be obvious that those being recorded are recorded.[2]
- The majority of the content must be important to the recording, and not recorded just in case something will happen.[2]
Turkey[edit]
legal with conditions
Ukraine[edit]
legal with conditions
- Must not obscure the view of the road or distract the driver in any way.[1]
- Must censor faces and number plates.[1]
United Kingdom[edit]
legal with conditions
- No permission needed to use a dashcam.[7]
- Cannot in any way be deemed to be obscuring the view. Cannot be placed more than 40mm (1.5") into the area where the windscreen wiper blades sweeps. If it's obscuring, you will be charged a fine and the footage is inadmissible in court.[7]
- All drivers and passengers of the vehicle must be informed of the presense of a dashcam in use.[7]
- Police can request dashcam footage and GPS data, if there's suspicion of motoring violation. You are not allowed to delete footage to hide it from the police.[7]
- Must censor faces and number plates.[1]
Vatican City[edit]
unknown
References[edit]
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- ^ "Dashcam (dashboard camera) Are they permitted? - Iceland Message Board - Tripadvisor". 2019. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
- ^ a b "Dashcam blir lagligt i sverige | Allt om Bilar" [Dashcams are now legal in Sweden] (in Swedish). Expressen. 2016-10-26. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
- ^ a b "Är det tillåtet att använda en dashcam för att dokumentera parkeringsskador i ett nyckellåst p-garage? - PUL/GDPR - Lawline" [Is it legal to use a dashcam to document parking damages in a key locked parking garage?] (in Swedish). 2019-12-31. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
- ^ a b c d "Dash cams and the law: what you need to know – Which?". Retrieved 2020-07-14.