Regional State Administrative Agency for Lapland

Occupational safety and environmental permits in the area of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Lapland are handled by the Regional State Administrative Agency for Northern Finland.

Our national duties include

• duties relating to the Sámi languages
• duties under the Reindeer Husbandry Act (848/1990)
• reindeer meat inspection and enforcement
• duties relating to the recovery of aid under the Act Repealing the Act on the Regeneration of Lapland’s Low-Yielding Forests.

Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland

• registration and enforcement relating to the fight against money laundering and terrorism
• preparation of a national expert assessment of rescue services
• coordination of the national occupational safety and health helpline

Regional State Administrative Agency for Eastern Finland

• licensing and enforcement relating to the Funeral Services Act and land register services
• state aid towards the maintenance of Finnish cemeteries in the ceded territory and war graves of the displaced population as well as maintenance of graves of Russian prisoners of war

Regional State Administrative Agency for Lapland

• upholding the Sámi language
• enforcement of the Reindeer Husbandry Act
• reindeer meat control and enforcement
• recovery of aid under the Act Repealing the Act on the Regeneration of Lapland’s Low-yielding Forests

Regional State Administrative Agency for Southwestern Finland

• administration of state grants for social welfare and health services development projects
• administration and supervision of state aid for rescue services
• internal audits of Regional State Administrative Agencies.

Regional State Administrative Agency for Western and Inland Finland

• lost property offices
• education in Swedish
• research and development projects in the construction of sports facilities
• joint administration of rental houses and right-of-residence housing
• confirmation of the statutes of joint property management associations.

Regional State Administrative Agency for Northern Finland

• coordination and enforcement of health care services for prisoners and the armed forces
• aerial forest fire surveillance
• nationwide occupational safety and health communications

Regional State Administrative Agency for Lapland – head office

Postal address: P.O. Box 3, 13035 AVI, Finland

Please send your letter to the P.O. Box of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Lapland (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: Pilke, Ounasjoentie 6, Rovaniemi

[email protected]
Telephone: +358 (0)29 501 6000

Office hours: Monday–Friday, 8.00 am – 4.15 pm

• Administrative matters (e.g. enquiries, complaints, appeals): please contact our registry at [email protected]  to submit official documents, have them entered into our case management system and find out about the competent authority in each case.
• Occupational Safety and Health: [email protected]
• Communications: head of communcation [email protected].

Please only send documents containing confidential or otherwise sensitive information via secure email. The maximum size of email attachments is 20 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.

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Contact information of the staff

Personnel search (in Finnish)

Occupational Safety and Health

For the full contact details of occupational safety and health authorities, visit the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s website.

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.

Director-General Kristiina Poikajärvi, tel. +358 (0)29 501 6654
Planning Officer Satu Salonen, tel. +358 (0)295 017 029

Basic Public Services, Legal Rights and Permits

• Director Marja-Lea Hallikainen , tel. +358 (0) 29 501 7065  
• Department Secretary Eija Kallo, tel. +358 (0)29 501 7362

Education and Culture

• Director Kaisa Post, tel. +358 (0)29 501 7355
• Planning Officer Outi Savolainen, tel. +358 (0)29 501 7380

Rescue Services and Preparedness

• Director Joni Henttu, tel. +358 (0)29 501 7364

Communications

• Head of communications Anne Leinonen, tel. +358 (0)29 501 7313

You can use the personnel search to find the contact information of our staff.
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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: 00370245428436601
PEPPOL address: 0216:00370245428436601
Business ID: 0245428-4
VAT code: FI02454284
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. 

Central government supplier portals for sending e-invoices and instructions for using the portals can be found on the State Treasury’s website (valtiokonttori.fi)

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].