EU Regulation 2016/679 - Decision Register

ICO / 2023 / 17282/MONETARY PENALTY

Maxen Power Supply Limited

Monetary penaltyPECR 20038 June 2023

£120,000

Penalty imposed

PECR 2003

8 June 2023

Date on the register

PECR 2003

Law relied on

PECR regulation 21, PECR regulation 24

Utilities

Sector

11 actions on the register

In one line

The ICO fined Maxen Power Supply Limited £120,000 on 8 June 2023 under the UK marketing rules in PECR. This is an ICO penalty, not a GDPR fine.

01The record

Organisation named
Maxen Power Supply Limited
Action
Monetary penalty
Date published
8 June 2023
Register year
2023
Law relied on
PECR 2003
Provisions cited
PECR regulation 21, PECR regulation 24
Penalty
£120,000
Sector on the register
Utilities
ICO register reference
17282
Register status
Published on the ICO enforcement register, 4 September 2026
Notice documents
2 PDFs published by the ICO
Sector share of register
11 of 216 actions (5%)
Actions published that year
80
Actions under this law
87
Position on the register
58th of 216, oldest first
Published the same day
3 actions dated 8 June 2023
Rank by penalty size
24th of 44 penalties with a published figure
Entries for this organisation
2 on this register

02What happened, and where it sits

Maxen Power Supply Limited received an ICO monetary penalty on 8 June 2023. The Commissioner acted under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, citing PECR regulation 21 and PECR regulation 24. A fine. The ICO issues a monetary penalty notice setting out the contravention and the sum payable. PECR is a separate instrument from the UK GDPR, so this is an ICO penalty under the marketing rules and not a GDPR fine.

The penalty is £120,000. That is the 24th largest of the 44 penalties on this register with a published figure and the 6th largest of the 13 recorded in 2023. PECR penalties are capped at £500,000, so the figure sits against that ceiling rather than the UK GDPR maximum.

Maxen Power Supply Limited is filed under Utilities, which accounts for 11 of the 216 actions on the register (5%). In 2023 the ICO published 80 enforcement actions in total, 22 of them monetary penalties. 87 actions on the register name PECR 2003.

Counted from the oldest entry forward, this is the 58th of 216 actions on the register and the 1st of 11 in Utilities. The ICO published 3 actions on 8 June 2023, so this one was part of a batch: Crown Glazing Ltd (monetary penalty) and Crown Glazing Ltd (enforcement notice). Maxen Power Supply Limited appears 2 times on this register: monetary penalty on 8 June 2023 and enforcement notice on 8 June 2023. The ICO publishes 2 documents for this action, 1.1 MB in total: "20230530-maxen-power-supply-limited-mpn-redacted" and "Maxen Power Supply Limited enforcement notice". They are the authority for everything on this page.

03The ICO's own account

Maxen Power Supply Limited used overseas call centres to make unsolicited marketing calls to businesses in contravention of regulations 21 and 24 of PECR. The company was fined £120,000 and issued with an enforcement notice.

Quoted from the ICO's published register entry (ico.org.uk), Open Government Licence v3.0.

The law behind this action

PECR 2003

PECR governs electronic marketing, cookies and communications-service security. It is a separate instrument from the UK GDPR: an action taken under PECR is not a GDPR fine, and the register pages here never describe it as one.

All 87 register actions under PECR 2003

What a monetary penalty does

A fine. The ICO issues a monetary penalty notice setting out the contravention and the sum payable.

04Other entries for Maxen Power Supply Limited

1 further entry on the register
OrganisationDateActionLawPenaltySector
Maxen Power Supply Limited8 Jun 2023Enforcement noticePECR 2003-Utilities

05Published the same day

2 other actions carry the date 8 June 2023
OrganisationDateActionLawPenaltySector
Crown Glazing Ltd8 Jun 2023Monetary penaltyPECR 2003£130,000Utilities
Crown Glazing Ltd8 Jun 2023Enforcement noticePECR 2003-Utilities

06Nearest entries on the register

All Utilities actions/All 2023 actions/The full register

07Work out an exposure of your own

Provenance and independence

Source: ICO enforcement register (ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/), as published on 4 September 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

GDPRFine.com is an independent tracker of ICO enforcement. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the Information Commissioner's Office, and it uses no ICO branding. Where the ICO's own wording is reproduced it is quoted and attributed; everything else on these pages is our own summary of the published record.

The ICO's register held 222 entries on that date. 6 of them are prosecutions of named individuals, with ages and home towns in the ICO's own summary. This tracker indexes organisations, so those 6 are excluded and every count on these pages is out of 216. They remain on the ICO's own register.

An entry says what the Commissioner did on the date shown. It is not a statement about the organisation today, and the ICO can amend or remove a register entry at any time. Amounts and provisions are as published by the ICO; where the published notice does not state a figure or name a provision, these pages say so rather than filling the gap. This entry was read from the register page at https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/2023/06/maxen-power-supply-limited-mpn/.

Register: ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/. Corrections: [email protected].

REGISTER UPDATED 2026-04-28