Administrative court dismissed appeal; licensing authority cannot reduce tax license quota after initial assessment.

The Administrative Court of Finland dismissed the applicant's appeal against the licensing authority's decision to reduce the maximum number of tax licenses. The authority had initially set a quota of 1,432 licenses but later reduced it to 95 due to changed economic conditions. The court ruled that since the traffic need assessment forming the basis of the quota was binding upon the authority's approval, the authority could not unilaterally lower the quota during the subsequent licensing round. Consequently, the reduction was deemed legally impermissible as it violated the binding nature of the prior assessment. The applicant's argument that economic changes justified the reduction was rejected because the statutory framework required adherence to the originally assessed traffic needs.