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 Ostrobothnia and Kainuu.
The Regional State Administrative Agency for Northern Finland also has jurisdiction over occupational safety and health and environmental permits in Lapland. Our head office is in Oulu, and we also employ staff in Rovaniemi, Kemi, Kajaani, Jyväskylä and Tampere.
The Director-General of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Northern Finland is Ms Kaisa Ainasoja. We employ 145 people in five different divisions and management support roles.
Information on our services can be found here:
The Division of Basic Public Services, Legal Rights and Permits of the Regional State
Administrative Agency for Northern Finland has national oversight in the following area:
The Division of Rescue Services and Preparedness of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Northern Finland has national oversight in the following area:
The Division of Occupational Safety and Health of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Northern Finland has national oversight in the following area:
The Regional State Administrative Agency for Northern Finland also has jurisdiction over occupational safety and health in Lapland.
Environmental permits. The Regional State Administrative Agency for Northern Finland also has jurisdiction over environmental permits in Lapland.
The Regional State Administrative Agency for Northern Finland also has jurisdiction over nationwide analysis of health and social services.
Northern Finland (North Ostrobothnia and Kainuu) has
We have jurisdiction over occupational safety and environmental permits also in the area of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Lapland.
Our national duties include
Read more about our responsibilities in the Divisions section.
Regional State Administrative Agency for Northern Finland – head office
Postal address: P.O. Box 6, 13035 AVI, Finland
Please send your letter to the P.O. Box of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Northern 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: Linnankatu 3, Oulu
[email protected]
Telephone: +358 (0)295 016 000
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.
Please make an appointment with the person you wish to see in advance.
Contact information of the staff
Personnel search (in Finnish)
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.
Director-General Kaisa Ainasoja, tel. +358 (0)295 017 345
Management Support
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: 00370245422536501
PEPPOL address: 0216:00370245422536501
Business ID: 0245422-5
VAT code: FI02454225
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].
The Regional State Administrative Agency for Northern Finland engages in interregional cooperation with, for example, the Republic of Karelia, the German state of Baden-Württemberg and the Chinese province of Hainan. These partnerships have helped to increase cooperation between educational institutions, broaden students’ understanding of the world through foreign exchange programmes and promote local government joint ventures. Our other partners include the northernmost counties of Sweden and Norway.
The Regional State Administrative Agency for Northern Finland is also an active member of the European Association of State Territorial Representatives.
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