Spam is illegal in Germany and will stay that way (Score 4)

I certainly doubt that this forms any
"pro-spam" regulation.

UCE is a form of advertising that is not legal
in Germany, which is part of the EU.

Maybe I am getting the details wrong:
Basically, if my competitor uses UCE for
advertising, I can have my lawyer send
him a letter asking to stop it, to send back
a written statement that they will stop using UCE
and are happy to pay me cash if they do it again.

Of course, THEY have to pay my lawyer.

Apart from this, there is a law regulating the
processing of person-related data. Most of the
time, they pretty much must have violated that
to get your email address. (The law does not
apply to persons doing this for private reasons)

So, you can still send spam if you are doing
it for private reasons. ("REPENT NOW!" or somesuch)

But then, this will constitute a violation of
the policy of your online provider - off you
go.

I have received spam from german companies
exactly twice. Both had their account revoked
at once, and had to pay the cost of the sysadmins
to do the cleanup. (Actually, they had to pay
the time the sysadmin needed to revoke their
account, too.) Both were not done via bulk-mailing
software, but were commited by newbie users
who did not know better.

I have never received spam from other countries within the EU - it's only you US folks who can't get your companies to behave :-)