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On 3 July 2026, the Finnish Supreme Administrative Court (Korkein hallinto-oikeus - SAC) dismissed Bauer Media Oy’s appeal concerning the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom’s assessment of Digita Oy’s wholesale radio-transmission prices. Digita had been designated an undertaking with significant market power and was required to base its wholesale radio-transmission charges on an efficient operator's costs. The obligations covered radio antenna-capacity rental at main transmitter stations, ancillary functions and transmission services. In its decision...

On 27 August 2026, Finland’s Supreme Administrative Court (Korkein hallinto-oikeus - SAC) upheld consent requirements for tracking-based news personalisation and rejected a cookie consent interface that made refusal less accessible than acceptance. The judgments concerned Sanoma Media Finland Oy (KHO:2026:64) and Otavamedia Oy (KHO:2026:65), respectively. Both cases concerned section 205 of the Act on Electronic Communications Services (Laki sähköisen viestinnän palveluista), which implements Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC, as amended). For the storage...

The Finnish Parliament approved amendments to the Finnish Copyright Act (404/1961, CA) late February 2023, based on the DSM Directive (EU) 2019/790. The amendments entered into force on 3 April 2023. The process was a lengthy one, including a round of critical statements from various stakeholders regarding the draft Government proposal and a renewed preparation subject to complaints about partiality. The Constitutional Law Committee was also consulted during the legislative process and a supplementary Government proposal was drafted. The process exceeded the transposition deadline which also...

On 30 October 2019, the Finnish self-regulatory body for the media sector, Council for Mass Media (CMM), agreed on a historical dictum regarding algorithmic journalism. The dictum concerns news automation and personalisation, that is, newsbots, voting aid applications, and targeted recommendations, among others. The utilisation of algorithms as such is seen as a dispensable means to produce (more) quality content in an increasingly efficient manner. However, the news rooms should know the logic behind the algorithms they use. The dictum also aims to ensure transparency and accountability in the...

As of 1 January 2019, the Finnish Transport Safety Agency (Trafi), the Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (FICORA) and certain functions of the Finnish Transport Agency have been merged in order to form the new Finnish Transport and Communications Agency (Traficom). Traficom will be responsible for serving people and businesses in licence-, registration- and approval-related matters. The Agency will also be entrusted with promoting the transport system and safety of traffic and ensuring that Finish citizens have access to high-quality and secure communications connections and services....