National Information Security Strategy Renewed

The Finnish Government adopted a new national Information Security Strategy for 2009-2015 on 4 December 2008. In accordance with the Government Resolution on the Strategy a concrete action...

Government funds to the Broadband Programme

The Finnish state will contribute to the financing of the Broadband Programme. Public aid will cover 67 per cent of the investments at the most, with the government contribution amounting to a...

Winter tyre season as of 1 November

Winter tyres are compulsory in Finland as of 1 December. Studded tyres may be used on Finnish roads from 1 November.

Online youth work services will be increased

Finland's Ministry of Transport and Communications and Ministry of Education are making financial preparations for expanding youth work carried out online.

Statement of intent concerning a lease extension for the Saimaa Canal signed

Finnish Minister of Transport Anu Vehviläinen and Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin discussed the preliminary lease agreement for the Saimaa Canal in Helsinki, with specific regard to current...

Nopeat laajakaistayhteydet koko maahan 2015

Finnish Government decision on the use of available radio frequencies

Radio frequencies released by the digital switchover will be allocated to a range of services, including new television channels, broadband mobile networks, and high definition television.

A programme for improving maritime safety

A programme to improve vessel traffic safety on the Baltic Sea will be drafted under the leadership of the Ministry of Transport and Communications.

Transport and climate change on the agenda in ITF Leipzig meeting

The International Transport Forum 2008 took place in Leipzig, Germany, at the end of May. During the three-day event hosted by Finland especially the measures to reduce climate change were...

New frequencies soon available

On 14 June 2007 the Government issued a decree on the frequency plan for television and radio broadcasting and licensed television broadcasting (680/2007). The decree includes provisions on the...

A frequency management plan completed

Auctioning could be introduced in radio frequency management also in Finland. A working group of the Ministry of Transport and Communications considers that a market-based frequency management...

Ministry’s new web site

A new version of the Ministry of Transport and Communications web site has been launched. The structure and content of the new site have been clarified, the layout updated, and the technical...

Transport Minister Vehviläinen: The EU has to pursue efforts to improve road safety

Ms Anu Vehviläinen, Minister of Transport of Finland, says that the worst problems of traffic in Europe were tragically involved in Spain bus crash: drink driving, speeding and limited use of...

Better use of the Barents region through transport connections between Finland and Russia

A working group of the Ministry of Transport and Communications presents the following: Transport between Russia and Finland may increase, if more use will be made of the natural resources in the...

Free access for new EU Member States to the Finnish transport market as of 1 May 2008

In future any EU carrier, including the new Member States, will be entitled to operate national road haulage services in Finland. The Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications has decided...

New guidelines for transport policy

Government to increase investments in basic transport infrastructure management

The Finnish Government has decided to make considerable supplementary allocations to basic transport infrastructure management. In the government discussion on spending limits a decision was also...

Finland the first country to preside over the International Transport Forum

In the spring 2007 the European Conference of Ministers of Transport, ECMT, transformed into International Transport Forum, ITF, an intergovernmental organisation within the OECD family. For the...