The EU Directive on Audiovisual Media Services (AVMS) covers traditional broadcasting services as well as audiovisual media services provided on-demand, including via the Internet. Art. 13.1 provides for Member States to secure a minimum 30% share of European works in the catalogues as well as "ensuring prominence" of those works. "Prominence" involves promoting European works by facilitating access to such works using any appropriate means to ensure their prominence. The Directive has been implemented by Member States in different ways, ranging from very extensive and detailed measures to a mere reference to the general obligation to promote European works.
In Finland, the EU Directive was transposed into domestic law through the amendment of the Act on Electronic Communication Services of December 2020 (Law No. 1207/2020 on Amending the Electronic Communications Services Act). According to Art. 209 of the Act, subscription programme service providers must reserve at least 30% of their programme list for European works and ensure the visibility of these works within the list. This obligation does not apply to subscription programme service providers with a small turnover or audience, or in cases where compliance would be practically impossible or unjustified. Furthermore, Finland has not implemented financial contribution obligations for VOD service providers.

The Act on Electronic Communications Services implements the EU toolbox on securing the security and protection of critical parts of the communications network. The Act gives the Finnish government powers to deem certain telecommunications components and equipment a threat to national security and exclude them from the Finnish network. While the Act does not explicitly name Huawei or ZTE, as other EU member states have, it is likely that components from these telecommunications providers will face heightened scrutiny or possible bans.

The Directive 2016/943 on the protection of undisclosed know-how and business information (trade secrets) is key in harmonising national laws concerning trade secrets. Finland transposed the Directive through a series of amendments to existing legislation in 2018, as well as with the Trade Secrets Act (595/2018) of 2018.

It is reported that passive sharing is mandated in Estonia, and it is practised in the mobile and fixed sectors based on commercial agreements. In addition, Directive 2014/61/EU (Art. 3.2) establishes that Member States shall ensure that, upon written request of an undertaking providing or authorised to provide public communications networks, any network operator must meet all reasonable requests for access to its physical infrastructure under fair and reasonable terms and conditions, including price, with a view to deploying elements of high-speed electronic communications networks. Such written request shall specify the elements of the project for which the access is requested, including a specific time frame.

It is reported that the State of Finland owns 17.59% of the shares of Elisa Corporation. Elisa Corporation is one of the leading telecommunications service providers in the country and offers a wide range of services, including mobile telephony, broadband services, cable television, data services and business solutions.

It is reported that there is no requirement for functional separation for operators with significant market power in the telecom market. However, accounting separation is required in certain cases.

It is reported that the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency (FICORA), the executive authority for the supervision and administration of services in the telecommunications sector, is independent from the government in the decision-making process.

The Act on the Secondary Use of Health and Social Data facilitates the use of personal data in social and health activities for secondary purposes, establishing specific conditions regarding the environments in which such data may be analysed. While the Act itself does not impose restrictions on the transfer of personal data, the Social and Health Data Permit Authority has issued Regulation 1/2022, which, in Section 3.1.2 of Annex 1, stipulates that the environment must be physically located within the EU/EEA.

The European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provides a comprehensive framework for data protection that applies to all EU Member States. Finland implemented the GDPR in 2019 through the Data Protection Act.

Under the Directive on Data Retention, operators were required to retain certain categories of traffic and location data (excluding the content of those communications) for a period between six months and two years and to make them available, on request, to law enforcement authorities for the purposes of investigating, detecting and prosecuting serious crime and terrorism. On 8 April 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) declared the Directive invalid. However, not all national laws that implemented the Directive have been overturned.
In Finland, data retention laws are still in force, but as of 2021, they are under review. Chapter 19 of the Electronic Communications Services Act authorises the Finnish Ministry of the Interior to request data retention obligations of telecommunications providers. The retention obligations require telecommunications providers to retain traffic and location data for individuals under investigation for certain crimes for a period of 6-12 months, depending on the type of data. It is also true that following the ECJ ruling invaliding the Data Retention Directive, the scope and the application of the Finnish Information Society Code is limited. For instance, it does not include website browsing. Moreover, small operators are not required to retain their data. The data retention period goes from six months to 12 months, according to the category of the data.

Finland is a party to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).

There is no general principle for the use of copyright-protected material comparable to the fair use/fair dealing principles. Directive 2001/29/EC defines an optional but exhaustive set of limitations from the author´s exclusive rights under the control of the “three-step test” in line with the Berne Convention that establishes three cumulative conditions to the limitations and exceptions of a copyright holder’s rights. The Directive has been transposed by Member States with significant freedom.
The Finnish Copyright Act implements the Directive, with Chapter 2 of the Act enumerating the limitations on copyright protections.

The European Union and Finland have adopted the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright Treaty. The treaty was ratified on 14 December 2009 and came into effect on 14 March 2010.

The European Union and Finland have adopted the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Performances and Phonograms Treaty. The treaty was ratified on 14 December 2009 and came into effect on 14 March 2010.