The activities of the Regional State Administrative Agencies will end at the end the year 2025. Most of our tasks will be transferred to the new Finnish Supervisory Agency, which will launch its operations on 1 January 2026. Tasks related to animal health and welfare and to food will be transferred to the Finnish Food Authority. Competition and consumer administration tasks will be transferred to the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority.
Read more: Reform of regional state administration
We cover the regions of North Karelia, South Savo and North Savo.
Our head office is in Mikkeli, and we have branches in Joensuu and Kuopio.
The Director-General of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Eastern Finland is Mr Markku Tervahauta. We employ approximately 150 experts in different fields.
Information on our services can be found here:
Our national responsibilities include
Regional State Administrative Agency for Eastern Finland – head office
Postal address: P.O. Box 2, 13035 AVI, Finland
Please send your letter to the P.O. Box of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Eastern Finland (not the visiting address). Please address the letter only to the Regional State Administrative Agency (post with an official's name will cause delays in the processing of your matter).
Visiting address: Raatihuoneenkatu 5, Mikkeli
[email protected]
Telephone: +358 (0)29 501 6000
Office hours: Monday–Friday, 8.00 am – 4.15 pm
Please only send documents containing confidential or otherwise sensitive information via secure email. The maximum size of email including attachments is 50 MB. Larger files should be compressed or sent in multiple emails. Please remember that any information sent to us by email is at the sender’s risk.
Joensuu office
Postal address: P.O. Box 2, 13035 AVI, Finland
Please send your letter to the P.O. Box of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Eastern Finland (not the visiting address). Please address the letter only to the Regional State Administrative Agency (post with an official's name will cause delays in the processing of your matter).
Visiting address: Kauppakatu 40, Joensuu
Kuopio office
Postal address: P.O. Box 2, 13035 AVI, Finland
Please send your letter to the P.O. Box of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Eastern Finland (not the visiting address). Please address the letter only to the Regional State Administrative Agency (post with an official's name will cause delays in the processing of your matter).
Visiting address: Hallituskatu 12-14, Kuopio
Please make an appointment with the person you wish to see in advance.
For the full contact details of occupational safety and health authorities, visit the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s website.
Our email format is [email protected]. For general enquiries, please use our generic email addresses. Your email will then be forwarded to the competent person in our organisation.
Helplines and other ways to get in touch
Director-General Markku Tervahauta, tel. +358 (0)295 016 000
Basic Public Services, Legal Rights and Permits
Education and Culture
Rescue Services and Preparedness
Occupational Safety and Health
Environmental Permits
Communications
You can use the personnel search to find the contact information of our staff.
Personnel search
We only accept e-invoices. Send your invoice via Posti Messaging, the e-invoicing operator used by central government. Make sure that your invoice meets the European standard for e-invoicing. You can send attachments with your e-invoice in PDF format.
Operator ID (Posti Messaging Oy): FI28768767
EDI ID: 00371094822536301
PEPPOL address: 0216:00371094822536301
Business ID: 1094822-5
VAT code: FI10948225
Invoice reference details: details provided by the client
Make sure that the invoice contains all reference information provided by the client (at least the business unit ID and the client’s name). This speeds up the processing of the invoice. Payment term is 21 days in accordance with the general terms of public procurement in service and supply contracts.
We do not accept invoices sent by email or on paper because they are not e-invoices (Act 241/2019). Make sure that your invoice contains all the information required under the Value Added Tax Act. We do not pay inaccurate or incomplete invoices and will return them to the sender unpaid.
If you do not have any system to produce e-invoices, you can use the Handi supplier portal or Basware Portal provided by central government to prepare and send e-invoices.
Act on Electronic Invoicing 241/2019 (finlex.fi; the page is in Finnish)
VAT invoice requirements (vero.fi)
General Terms of Public Procurement in Service and Supply Contracts (vm.fi)
For questions about the use of the Handi supplier portal, contact the Finnish Government Shared Services Centre for Finance and HR (Palkeet). Palkeet customer support (8.00–16.15) tel. +358 (0)2955 64060 and email [email protected].
