Just found this on Gizmodo.co.uk posted today 1st Feb 2014
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2014/02/a-guide-to-bitcoin-legality-in-different-countries-around-the-world/Followed through the link on that page to
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/01/31/bitcoins-legality-around-the-world/ which was posted yesterday on Forbes.
Last November, the U.S. Senate dove head-first into the world of Bitcoin, prompted by Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper, a Democratic senator from Delaware who has become very interested in the digital coin. Representatives from law enforcement and financial agencies told the Senate that they weren’t too worried about Bitcoin. The fact that U.S. officials weren’t going after Bitcoin like pitchfork-wielding villagers after Frankenstein reassured Bitcoin speculators, who rocketed its value from $200 to $1200. Now that the U.S. government’s position on Bitcoin is relatively certain, Sen. Carper wants to know what the rest of the world thinks. His committee tasked the Law Library of Congress with surveying over 40 countries for their official stance on Bitcoin and whether Bitcoin is actually in use.
It's a run down of the official report requested by U.S.Govt of the world's stance on bitcoin.
