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        • Animals
          • Animal welfare violations
          • Broiler welfare notices
          • Contagious animal diseases
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        • Corporate governance enforcement
          • Applications for the appointment of an operations inspector
          • Convening a general meeting of an association
          • Informal requests for the appointment of an operations inspector
          • Shareholders' meetings
          • Shooting clubs
          • Special audits
        • Education and culture
          • Exemptions from teachers’ and head teachers’ qualification requirements
          • State aid
        • Social welfare and health care
          • Limited stock of medicinal products
          • State aid towards training
            • Practical training that promotes vocational skills included in Bachelor's degree in Social Services and Health Care
            • Medical and dental education
            • Nurse prescribing courses
        • Water and the environment
          • Permits under the Water Act
          • Environmental permits
          • Priority in environmental and water management permit procedures
        • Wealth and assets
          • Deposits held by Regional State Administrative Agencies
      • 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
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        • Food
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        • Rights and status of customers
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        • Water and the environment
        • Welfare and public health
          • Preventative drug work
          • Prevention of violence in close relationships
        • Permit advice for critical raw materials projects
        • Permit advice for net-zero projects
      • Self-regulation
        • Self-regulation of social services
      • Enforcement and reporting violations
        • Anti-Money Laundering Act
        • Education and culture
          • Oversight of education services
          • Oversight of early childhood education and care services
          • Oversight of library services
        • Enforcement of alcohol serving and sales
        • Estate agents
        • Food
        • Occupational safety and health
        • Oversight of rescue services
          • External emergency plans of high-risk establishments
          • Reporting rescue service failings
        • Public employment services
        • Resale royalty rights
        • Social welfare and health care
          • Promoting welfare and public health
          • Quality assurance of social services
  • About us
    • Regional State Administrative Agencies
      • Southern Finland
      • Eastern Finland
      • Lapland
      • Southwestern Finland
      • Western and Inland Finland
      • Northern Finland
      • List of municipalities in the areas of operation of the Regional State Administrative Agencies
    • Our services
      • Alcohol licensing
      • Animals and animal testing
        • Laboratory animals
      • Competition and consumer affairs
      • Contagious diseases and epidemics
      • Early education
      • Education and culture
        • Education
          • Exemptions from teachers and head teachers’ qualification requirements
          • Preschool education
        • Libraries
          • Nordic Libraries Annual
        • School and nursery buildings
        • Sports
        • Youth work
          • Outreach youth work
          • Youth work in municipalities
          • Youth workshops
      • Enforcement of estate agents
      • Food control
      • Health protection
      • International relations
      • Occupational safety and health
      • Rescue services
      • Safety and security
        • Animal disease preparedness
        • School safety
        • School safety planning
      • Social welfare and health care
        • Romani affairs
      • Swedish-language education
      • Tobacco control
      • Water and environment
      • Wealth and assets
        • Enforcement of the Anti-Money Laundering Act
      • Wellbeing services counties
      • Our other duties
        • Medals and decorations
      • Public employment services
      • Point of contact authority
    • What we do
      • We develop
        • Development of Swedish-language education and culture services
        • Special grants from the Fire Protection Fund
        • Performance evaluation of health and social services
      • We train
        • Defence training
        • Health protection training
        • Tobacco control and enforcement training
        • Training offered by the Division of Education and Culture
        • Training under the Food Act
      • We license
      • We finance
      • We advise
      • We produce information
        • Youth work statistics
        • Library statistics
      • Our supervisory role
      • Our operating principles
        • Planning and performance management
        • Responsibility
    • Careers
      • Our vacancies
    • Current issues
      • Reform of regional state administration