- Individuals
- Licences, notices and applications
- Alcohol serving and sales
- Animals
- Animal breeding
- Animal health control
- Animal husbandry
- Animal shows and displays
- Animal transport authorisations
- Animal welfare certification
- Animal welfare violations
- Broiler stocking density notifications
- Contagious animal diseases
- Destruction of animals
- Laboratory animals
- Notifications relating to professional or large-scale keeping of animals
- Outdoor cattle grazing
- Wild animal farming
- Burials
- Corporate governance enforcement
- Education and culture
- Property development, housing and joint property management associations
- Real estate or letting agents
- Social welfare and health care
- Water and the environment
- Wealth and assets
- Work and occupational safety and health
- Guidance and advice
- Aerial forest fire surveillance
- Alcohol marketing
- Competition and consumer affairs
- Contagious animal diseases
- Coordination and enforcement of health care services for prisoners and the armed forces
- Customers’ rights
- Estate agents and letting agents
- Food control
- Free-range pigs and poultry
- Health protection
- Medicines
- Patients’ rights
- Restaurants and coronavirus
- Romani affairs
- Tobacco control and enforcement
- Water and the environment
- Wealth and assets
- Welfare and public health
- Challenging decisions
- Enforcement and reporting violations
- Licences, notices and applications
- Businesses
- Licences, notices and applications
- Alcohol serving and sales
- Animals
- Animal breeding
- Animal husbandry
- Animal health control
- Animal shows and displays
- Animal trade notices
- Animal transport authorisations
- Broiler stocking density notices
- Contagious animal diseases
- Destruction of animals
- Disinfection of livestock transport vehicles
- Disposal of water from animal transport vehicles
- Notifications relating to professional or large-scale keeping of animals
- Outdoor cattle grazing
- Private veterinary care provision
- Reindeer husbandry
- Wild animal farming
- Laboratory animals
- Burials
- Corporate governance enforcement
- Education and culture
- Property development, housing and joint property management associations
- Real estate or letting agents
- Social welfare and health care
- Tobacco sales
- Water and the environment
- Wealth and assets
- Work and occupational safety and health
- Guidance and advice
- Aerial forest fire surveillance
- Alcohol marketing
- Competition and consumer affairs
- Contagious animal diseases
- Coordination and enforcement of health care services for prisoners and the armed forces
- Estate agents and letting agents
- Food control
- Free-range pigs and poultry
- Medicines
- Quality assurance of social services
- Restaurants and coronavirus
- Rights and status of customers
- Rights and status of patients
- Water and the environment
- Romani affairs
- Wealth and assets
- Welfare and public health
- Self-regulation
- Enforcement and reporting violations
- Licences, notices and applications
- Government agencies
- Licences, notices and applications
- 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
- Environmental health audits and consultancy
- Food
- Libraries
- Medicines
- Quality assurance of social services
- Rights and status of customers
- Rights and status of patients
- Romani affairs
- Veterinary medical care
- Water and the environment
- Welfare and public health
- Self-regulation
- Enforcement and reporting violations
- Customer service
Audits and consultation visits
We carry out audits to ensure that local-authority environmental health officers are fulfilling their statutory duties. The enforcement operations of local authorities must be of a good quality, based on risks and prevent negative health effects. Enforcement must be carried out in line with the enforcement plan approved by the local authority. It must also take national enforcement plans drawn up by central offices into account, as appropriate for the local conditions.
We supervise local authorities by paying assessment and consultation visits to environmental health protection enforcement units. We use audits and consultation visits as a way to check
- local authorities’ health protection, tobacco, food and veterinary control plans and how they are being implemented,
- the way in which enforcement is organised (e.g. fees, delegation, budgets, human resources management, strategy, staff training and contingency planning),
- whether the controls are in compliance with the law and national enforcement guidelines,
- whether the controls are risk-based, consistent and effective,
- the way in which the compliance of various kinds of food premises (e.g. food production facilities and restaurants) is ensured and whether the hygiene rating and product safety criteria used are appropriate and applied consistently,
- the way in which local authorities enforce the Health Protection Act and the Tobacco Act (e.g. by auditing water suppliers, social welfare institutions and tobacco vendors),
- how animal health and welfare regulations are enforced, and
- whether local-authority veterinary medical care services comply with the law.
We also aim to identify best practices and ways to promote compliance and share these on a website designed for the central authorities.
We produce an audit report after each visit, in which we identify the strengths and weaknesses identified as well as any non-conformances. Our feedback also includes suggestions of improvements. If a local authority’s control system does not satisfy the requirements, we will ask for an explanation. The local authority will need to explain how and when they intend to rectify the non-conformances.