victoria patel schrieb:

Anyone know a website which lists scanning laws by country?

Hello Victoria.

Sorry. I don't know a website you are looking for. Laws are changing
faster than rabbits make babies... ;-) So it would be a sysiphus work to
keep such a list up to date.
If you are interested in the german laws regarding to scanners i would
email them to you on request. Or just join to the german speaking group
on news:de.alt.radio-scanner
There's a lot of well knowing people on that subject. Please feel free
to post questions in english. But as you are familar with the german
language it is much easier to explain something in german ;-)
Basic thing in germany is: You are allowed to "own" everything(!) on
receivers and(!) transmitters (wich was forbidden 8 years ago, in case
not having a licence).
Nowadays the use(!) of scanners in germany is restricted on
CE-confirmation and to receive only transmissions directed to the
public. So listening to any other services may cause some difficulties
if cought _in_flagranti_. Some laws are somewhat indifferent. So some
judges (with rare basical technical knowledge) tend to say: Services who
don't want to be listenable on (widely used) scanners will have to use
real encryption (not only voice inversion) to prevent unwanted
listening. But do not count on this....
Carrying a used(!) radio(-scanner) with you for personal use is no
problem on the customs. They are not interested in technical issiues
like CE-confirmation, frequency range, etc. But not having the CE, just
powering it up would be illegal. But who should bring an action on you
for this....? ;-)

regards,
Volker