📋 Tender Overview
The President of the Republic confirmed the amendments to the Act on Electronic Communications Services on 13.6.2024. The amendments concern two acts, but in practice they affect the validity period of certain provisions of the Act on Electronic Communications Services. The changes will enter into force before the expiry of the current provisions in late June and early July 2024.
The provisions of the Act on Electronic Communications Services concerning the confidentiality of radio communications and the partial prohibition of telemarketing of mobile phone subscriptions will be amended to be valid until further notice.
The aim of the amendments is to preserve the possibility of statistical processing of traffic data in such a way that the protection of private life and personal data or the secrecy of confidential communications is not jeopardised. At the same time, the aim is to protect consumers from market disturbances related to telemarketing in the marketing of new mobile phone subscriptions and in operator switching situations.
In addition, the tasks of the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom will be temporarily increased to include the supervision of the Regulation on public mobile communications networks in the EU (the so-called Roaming Regulation) and the Regulation on the internal market for electronic communications.
What's next?
The amendments will enter into force at the end of June and beginning of July 2024. The regulation on the supervisory tasks of the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom is valid until 30.6.2032.
The Government proposal containing the proposals was circulated for comments 21.2.–15.3.2024. A more extensive proposal was to be pronounced, and it was decided to divide it into two different proposals in further preparation in order to streamline parliamentary proceedings. This first proposal included the most urgent amendments in terms of schedule. Another amendment proposal to the same act will be confirmed later in summer 2024.
