Legislative measures

The Government will pay particular attention to the clarity, consistency and validity of information society legislation and will see to it that consideration is also given to future development needs. The copyright system will be developed in a balanced fashion and attention paid to the interests of the industry, users, research and education, consumers and the actors concerned. The effects of new laws on the information society will be considered during their preparation and also when they are in force.

• Further development of the copyright legislation (Ministry of Education)
  

• Drafting of legislation for electronic patient record procedures within social and health care services (Ministry of Social Affairs and Health)
  

• Reforming the decree on patient records (Ministry of Social Affairs and Health)
  

• Decree on entries made in patient documents in social welfare and retention of documents (Ministry of Social Affairs and Health)
  

• State information management act (Ministry of Finance)
  

• Reform of the procurement act (Ministry of Trade and Industry)
  

• Updating the Legal Deposit Act (Ministry of Education)
  

• Preparation of legislation for implementation of electronic invoicing in public administration during 2007 on the basis of KuntaTIME guidelines  (Ministry of Finance, Ministry of the Interior)
  

• Project preparing the legislation concerning basic registers (Ministry of the Interior)
  

• Preparing the legislation concerning electronic real estate trading (Ministry of Justice)