- Individuals
- Licences, notices and applications
- Alcohol serving and sales
- Animals
- Animal breeding
- Animal health control
- Animal husbandry
- Animal shows and displays
- Animal transport authorisations
- Animal welfare certification
- Animal welfare violations
- Broiler stocking density notifications
- Contagious animal diseases
- Destruction of animals
- Laboratory animals
- Notifications relating to professional or large-scale keeping of animals
- Outdoor cattle grazing
- Wild animal farming
- Burials
- Corporate governance enforcement
- Education and culture
- Property development, housing and joint property management associations
- Real estate or letting agents
- Social welfare and health care
- Water and the environment
- Wealth and assets
- Work and occupational safety and health
- Guidance and advice
- Aerial forest fire surveillance
- Alcohol marketing
- Competition and consumer affairs
- Contagious animal diseases
- Coordination and enforcement of health care services for prisoners and the armed forces
- Customers’ rights
- Estate agents and letting agents
- Food control
- Free-range pigs and poultry
- Health protection
- Medicines
- Patients’ rights
- Restaurants and coronavirus
- Romani affairs
- Tobacco control and enforcement
- Water and the environment
- Wealth and assets
- Welfare and public health
- Challenging decisions
- Enforcement and reporting violations
- Licences, notices and applications
- Businesses
- Licences, notices and applications
- Alcohol serving and sales
- Animals
- Animal breeding
- Animal husbandry
- Animal health control
- Animal shows and displays
- Animal trade notices
- Animal transport authorisations
- Broiler stocking density notices
- Contagious animal diseases
- Destruction of animals
- Disinfection of livestock transport vehicles
- Disposal of water from animal transport vehicles
- Notifications relating to professional or large-scale keeping of animals
- Outdoor cattle grazing
- Private veterinary care provision
- Reindeer husbandry
- Wild animal farming
- Laboratory animals
- Burials
- Corporate governance enforcement
- Education and culture
- Property development, housing and joint property management associations
- Real estate or letting agents
- Social welfare and health care
- Tobacco sales
- Water and the environment
- Wealth and assets
- Work and occupational safety and health
- Guidance and advice
- Aerial forest fire surveillance
- Alcohol marketing
- Competition and consumer affairs
- Contagious animal diseases
- Coordination and enforcement of health care services for prisoners and the armed forces
- Estate agents and letting agents
- Food control
- Free-range pigs and poultry
- Medicines
- Quality assurance of social services
- Restaurants and coronavirus
- Rights and status of customers
- Rights and status of patients
- Water and the environment
- Romani affairs
- Wealth and assets
- Welfare and public health
- Self-regulation
- Enforcement and reporting violations
- Licences, notices and applications
- Government agencies
- Licences, notices and applications
- Guidance and advice
- Advice on the Finnish Health Protection Act
- Aerial forest fire surveillance
- Contamination of water supply
- Coordination and enforcement of health care services for prisoners and the armed forces
- Coordination of tobacco control
- Environmental health audits and consultancy
- Food
- Libraries
- Medicines
- Quality assurance of social services
- Rights and status of customers
- Rights and status of patients
- Romani affairs
- Veterinary medical care
- Water and the environment
- Welfare and public health
- Self-regulation
- Enforcement and reporting violations
- Customer service
Communications
Our Communications team answers journalists’ questions between 9.00 am and 4.00 pm from Monday to Friday at [email protected] Enquiries relating to occupational safety and health can be sent directly to occupational safety and health information officers at [email protected]
If your enquiry relates to a specific case, such as your or your organisation’s licence, please call our customer service helpline to have your call forwarded to the correct person in our organisation.
Media enquiries
- Regional Communications Managers:
- Southern Finland: Johanna Koskela, tel. +358 (0)29 501 6131
- Eastern Finland: Auli Posti, tel. +358 (0)29 501 6854
- Lapland: Anne Leinonen, tel. +358 (0)29 501 7313
- Southwestern Finland: Tanja Railo, tel. +358 (0)29 501 6552
- Western and Inland Finland: (Annette Rinne, on leave)
- Northern Finland: Alpo Merilä, tel. +358 (0)29 501 7530
- Occupational safety and health enquiries, tel. +358 (0)29 501 8546
- Head of Communications Jaana Lehtovirta, tel. +358 (0)29 501 6404
Information about COVID-19 restrictions:
- COVID-19 helpline: tel. +358 (0)29 501 6666 (Monday–Friday, 8.00–11.30 am and 12.30–4.00 pm), email: [email protected]
- Johanna Koskela, Tanja Railo and Jaana Lehtovirta (see contact information above)
Photographs for the media
Representatives of the media can download photographs at avi.kuvat.fi, including pictures of our Directors-General. Please do not manipulate our photographs for your own purposes without permission. Please also refrain from using them inappropriately or distastefully. Our photographs cannot be used for commercial purposes.
Regional State Administrative Agencies on social media
- Twitter: @AVItwiittaa
- Twitter: @tervettatyota (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
- Twitter: @saavutettava (web accessibility)
- Twitter: @AVIrahanpesu (enforcement of the Anti-Money Laundering Act)
- Twitter: @AVIKirjasto (libraries)
- Twitter: @avikouluttaa (education)
- Twitter: @AVItweetar (Swedish-language education)
- Twitter: @esavisosiaali (Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland, health and social services)
- Facebook: Regional State Administrative Agencies
- Facebook: Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- Facebook: Regional State Administrative Agencies, youth work
- Facebook: Regional State Administrative Agencies, schools and nurseries
- Facebook: Regional State Administrative Agencies, libraries
- Facebook: Regional State Administrative Agencies, Swedish-language education
Other channels
- YouTube: Regional State Administrative Agencies
- LinkedIn: Regional State Administrative Agencies
- Instagram: Regional State Administrative Agencies
Directors-General
- Twitter: @soile_lahti (Soile Lahti, Regional State Administrative Agency for Eastern Finland)
- Twitter: @KaisaAinasoja (Kaisa Ainasoja, Regional State Administrative Agency for Lapland)
- Twitter: @TeSavolainen (Terttu Savolainen, Regional State Administrative Agency for Northern Finland)
- Twitter: @MLuukanen (Mikael Luukanen, Regional State Administrative Agency for Southwestern Finland)
- Twitter: @m_pukkinen (Marko Pukkinen, Regional State Administrative Agency for Western and Inland Finland)
- Twitter: @MerjaEkqvist (Merja Ekqvist, Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland), Facebook: Director-General Merja Ekqvist