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Cyprus raised its e-scooter minimum age to a uniform 17 in April 2026 under Law 19(I)/2018, replacing two separate lower age thresholds after accidents involving young riders.
The Czech Republic treats a seatless e-scooter capped at 1kW and 25 km/h as a legal bicycle needing no registration, while Prague ended all rental contracts on 1 January 2026.
Denmark requires every e-scooter rider to wear a CE-marked helmet regardless of age, a rule in force since 2022, alongside a minimum riding age of 15 under Faerdselsloven.
Ecuador's national transit law leaves e-scooter regulation to city governments, and traffic agents say they lack a legal tool to sanction riders on helmet use or licensing.
Cairo and Giza have banned e-scooters from their streets by governor decree, while Traffic Law 121/2008 is reported to require licensing that most riders ignore in practice.
Estonia's kergliikur category permits e-scooters on sidewalks unlike Sweden or Norway, and ties riding access to age tiers rather than a single minimum age.
Ethiopia's Road Transport Proclamation neither names nor prohibits e-scooters and functions mainly as a commercial-licensing law, leaving riders without a clear conduct code.
Finland's 17 June 2025 reform set a new minimum riding age of 15, brought e-scooters under a 0.5 promille alcohol limit, and confirmed a 25 km/h, 1 kW device cap.
Greece's Law 5209/2025 sets a minimum e-scooter age of 12 and requires a helmet for every rider, a stricter rule than Greece applies to ordinary cyclists.
E-scooters are illegal in public in Hong Kong today, carrying the harshest fine and jail exposure in the region. See the pending 2026 legalization bill.
Hungary's traffic code has no dedicated e-scooter category yet, so courts apply bicycle or moped analogies case by case until a new two-tier regime begins 1 September 2026.
Iceland sets a minimum e-scooter age of 13, not the often-repeated claim of no age limit, plus a helmet rule for riders under 16 and Reykjavik's own stricter roadway ban.