- Individuals
- Customer service
- 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
- Businesses
- Customer service
- 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
- Animals
- Competition and consumer affairs
- Education and culture
- Enforcement of alcohol serving and sales
- Estate agents
- Food
- Local government pilots on employment
- Occupational safety and health
- Oversight of rescue services
- Reporting local authority misconduct
- Social welfare and health care
- Wealth and assets
- Government agencies
- Customer service
- 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
Competition and consumer affairs
We provide consultancy and act as one of Finland’s enforcement authorities for competition and consumer affairs.
Price information
We ensure that the way in which prices of goods and services are displayed in retail stores and advertisements complies with the law. We advise businesses and help them to comply with these principles.
The Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority and the Consumer Ombudsman are responsible for cases that require interpretation of the law. Ultimately, the rules on the disclosure of price information are set by the Finnish Market Court. Enforcing regulations on false advertising and contractual terms is the responsibility of the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority.
Competition enforcement
We enforce competition law together with the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority. The Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority is Finland’s national competition authority, while Regional State Administrative Agencies only have competence in regional anti-competition enforcement.
Consumer credit marketing
Regional State Administrative Agencies can intervene in false advertising of consumer credit.
Package holiday operators
Regional State Administrative Agencies are responsible for ensuring that package holiday operators who have a legal obligation to register their business have done so and that they have a legally binding guarantee in place to protect their customers.
Measuring instruments
It is our job to ensure that measuring instruments are fit for purpose and work as required by law. Regional State Administrative Agencies can send an inspector to visit a store or a marketplace in person. We report all faulty measuring instruments to the Finnish Safety and Chemicals Agency, which decides on any further action.