Electronic Transactions Law, unauthorized interference and interception offences
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In force since 30 April 2004.
A computer misuse rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not dishonestly hack, modify, alter, destroy, or steal another person's electronic record, electronic data message, or computer programme.
- Do not intercept a communication within a computer network, or give any person access to the contents of a communication, without the permission of both the originator and the addressee.
- Reading a public, unauthenticated page without defeating a technical access control or intercepting a communication has not itself been held to violate this section.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Private right of actionNo
Criminal exposure note
Imprisonment for a term which may extend to 5 years, or a fine (amount not specified by the Law), or both, on conviction under s. 34; a more serious tier at s. 33 (acts detrimental to state security or public order using electronic transactions technology) carries imprisonment from a minimum of 7 to a maximum of 15 years and a possible fine.
What this law does
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Section 34 of the Electronic Transactions Law punishes, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 5 years or a fine or both, sending, hacking, modifying, altering, destroying or stealing an electronic record, electronic data message or computer programme dishonestly, and separately punishes intercepting a communication within a computer network or giving another person access to a communication's contents without the permission of the originator and the addressee.
The offence's elements turn on dishonesty and interception rather than on defeating a technical access control, so reading a public, unauthenticated page without more falls outside a plain reading of the provision, and no reported case has tested the point.
A more serious tier at section 33 punishes, with imprisonment from 7 to 15 years, acts detrimental to state security or public order committed using electronic transactions technology, and section 38 extends the punishment for any offence to an attempt, conspiracy or abetment of it.
The English text catalogued here carries no personal-data definition, misinformation offence, or VPN-circumvention provision of the kind secondary reporting attributes to a 2021 amendment (State Administration Council Law No. 7/2021); that amendment's own text is not among the sources cited for this instrument, so this instrument reflects only the law as amended through Law No. 6/2014.
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