Animals

The duties of environmental health care in the administrative branch of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Finland will be transferred from Regional State Administrative Agencies to the Finnish Food Authority as of 1 January 2026. The pages related to certain animal and food-related notifications, permits and services can be found on the ruokavirasto.fi website in the future. 

More information: Administrative duties shifted to the Finnish Food Authority (Ruokavirasto.fi, in English), press release 19 June 2025 (avi.fi, in Finnish).

Regional State Administrative Agencies are the competent authority for many different kinds of licences, notices and applications relating to animals and animal experimentation. You might be interested in, for example, the following: