It’s official. After months of debate, the European Parliament, on Wednesday, formally adopted price cuts that will make sending text messages or surfing the mobile internet 60 percent cheaper for travelers in the European Union. The price curbs take effect in the start of July, and according to Reuters, are already being adopted rapidly “because EU parliamentarians, facing an election in June, want to show how the bloc can make a positive difference to the daily lives of its nearly 500 million citizens.” European carriers were less happy with the legislation, arguing that market forces were already driving down data prices.

Here’s what the new rules say:

—Carriers may charge customers a maximum of 11 euro cents ($0.14) per roamed text message. Currently, prices vary carrier by carrier, but the average is around 28 euros cents ($0.37).

—Downloading data while roaming will be charged a maximum of 1 euro ($1.30) per megabyte at the wholesale level, down from around 1.68 euros ($2.20) today.

—Price caps on roamed voice calls, first introduced in 2007, have been extended by three years to 2012.

In the next few weeks, EU states are expected to formally approve the new rules.