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15.5.2025 | On 15 May 2025, the Government granted advance approval of the change in effective control of MTV Oy. The Government will not cancel the programme licences of MTV Oy for television broadcasting despite a change in the effective control of the company.

13.6.2017 | Cinia Group Ltd, a subsidiary of Governia Oy, will be transferred to direct state ownership. Responsibility for ownership steering of Cinia Group Ltd will be reassigned to the Ministry of Transport and Communications. Cinia is owned by the state, employment pension company Ilmarinen and OP Financial Group.

31.8.2017 | Cinia Group will be under direct state ownership Ministry of Transport and Communications Publication date 31.8.2017 14.25 Type: Press release Cinia Group Oy, a Finnish company specialising in information and communications technology, will be tra...

13.6.2017 | State ownership structure of Cinia Group to be simplified Ministry of Transport and Communications Publication date 13.6.2017 8.30 Type: Press release Cinia Group Ltd, a subsidiary of Governia Oy, will be transferred to direct state ownership. Res...

2.6.2020 | The Government proposes that in the fourth supplementary budget for 2020 significant additional funding be allocated for the administrative branch of the Ministry of Transport and Communications.

2.6.2020 | The Government proposes that in the fourth supplementary budget for 2020 significant additional funding be allocated for the administrative branch of the Ministry of Transport and Communications.

25.4.2017 | Reforms in the administrative branch of the Ministry of Transport and Communications Ministry of Transport and Communications Publication date 25.4.2017 14.13 Type: Press release The Ministry of Transport and Communications will reform the agencie...

1.2.2019 | The Finnish railway sector is facing a lot of pressure to change. The increasing environmental awareness, requirements of sustainable development and mitigation of climate change call for an overall reform of mobility and logistics services.

25.4.2017 | The Ministry of Transport and Communications will reform the agencies in its administrative branch. The Transport Safety Agency Trafi, the Communications Regulatory Authority and the official functions of the Transport Agency will be integrated into one agency. The traffic control functions of the Transport Agency will be incorporated into a fully state-owned company/companies with special assignment.

6.9.2005 | The responsibility for ownership matters of TeliaSonera Finland will be transferred from the Ministry of Transport and Communications to the Ministry of Trade and Industry. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Policy supported the transfer on 6 September.

10.9.2019 | On 10 September 2019, the Ministerial Committee on Economic Policy supported the guidelines presented by Minister of Transport and Communications Sanna Marin to promote large-scale rail transport investments.

5.6.2020 | On 5 June, the Government submitted to Parliament its fourth supplementary budget proposal for 2020.

1.2.2019 | The Finnish railway sector is facing a lot of pressure to change. The increasing environmental awareness, requirements of sustainable development and mitigation of climate change call for an overall reform of mobility and logistics services.

5.6.2020 | On 5 June, the Government submitted to Parliament its fourth supplementary budget proposal for 2020.

14.6.2017 | As of 1 January 2019, the traffic control functions in the road, maritime and rail transport sectors that are currently the responsibility of the Transport Agency will be incorporated into a state-owned limited company. At its meeting on 13 June 2016, the Government's Ministerial Committee on Economic Policy decided that the traffic control functions of the Transport Agency will be incorporated. ...

14.6.2017 | Traffic control functions of the Transport Agency to be incorporated Ministry of Transport and Communications Publication date 14.6.2017 14.55 Type: Press release As of 1 January 2019, the traffic control functions in the road, maritime and rail t...

1.9.2022 | The budget proposal for 2023 of Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s Government builds sustainable growth for the future, secures purchasing power and assists people with the hike in electricity prices. The budget proposal responds to the effects of Russia’s war of aggression and inflation, improves safety and security, security of supply, and energy self-sufficiency, and provides further investment in research and development and in the green transition.

5.6.2018 | The opening of passenger rail transport to competition proceeds with corporate reorganisation Ministry of Transport and Communications Publication date 5.6.2018 9.18 Type: Press release The Government has been preparing the opening of passenger ra...

5.6.2018 | The Government has been preparing the opening of passenger rail transport to competition. The Ministry of Transport and Communications and VR Group have on 4 June 2018 reached a decision regarding how to proceed in the opening of passenger rail transport to competition.

5.3.2015 | Finnish Transport Agency’s icebreaker will be sold to Arctia Icebreaking Oy Ministry of Transport and Communications Publication date 5.3.2015 13.24 Type: Press release An icebreaker now under construction and commissioned by the Finnish Transport...