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        • Convening a general meeting of an association
        • Informal requests for the appointment of an operations inspector
        • Shareholders' meetings
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        • State aid towards training
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            • Continuing education and information-based guidance
            • Outreach youth work
            • Outreach youth work contact system
            • State aid
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          • Projects, surveys and general registers
            • The Administration’s real estate management Optimaze
            • Basic Services Evaluation Survey
            • Project permit register
            • Uspa
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            • External emergency plans
            • List of preparedness exercises participants
            • Regional defence training courses (Hamsteri)
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          • Animal husbandry
          • Animal shows and displays
          • Animal transport authorisations
          • Animal welfare violations
          • Broiler stocking density notifications
          • Contagious animal diseases
          • Killing of animals
          • Movement of animals to EU Member States and TRACES NT
          • Laboratory animals
          • Notification of an animal competition
          • Notification of the keeping of animals
          • Notification of professional or large-scale animal keeping concerning pets and hobby animals
          • Notification of transporting animals to/from Finland
          • Outdoor cattle grazing
          • Wild animal farming
          • Wildlife hospitals
          • Notification of a petting zoo
        • Burials
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          • 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
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        • Property development, housing and joint property management associations
          • Joint property management associations
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          • Service provider register Soteri
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          • Environmental permits
          • Priority in environmental and water management permit procedures
        • Wealth and assets
          • Deposits held by Regional State Administrative Agencies
          • Registration of debt collectors
          • Pawnbrokers
          • Registration of lost property offices
          • Anti-money laundering registration
      • 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
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          • Prevention of violence in close relationships
      • Challenging decisions
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        • Alcohol serving and sales
        • Animals
          • Reindeer husbandry
          • Veterinary medical care
          • Animal welfare
          • Use of animals for scientific and educational purposes
          • Veterinary pharmacotherapy
          • Livestock marking and registration
          • EU livestock farm subsidies and cross-compliance controls on agricultural subsidies
        • Competition and consumer affairs
          • Competition enforcement
          • Consumer credit marketing
          • Measuring instruments
          • Package holiday operators
          • Price information
        • Education and culture
          • Oversight of early childhood education and care services
          • Oversight of education services
          • Oversight of library services
        • Estate agents
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        • Occupational safety and health
        • Public employment services
        • Reporting local authority misconduct
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          • External emergency plans of high-risk establishments
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          • Promoting welfare and public health
          • Quality assurance of social services
        • Wealth and assets
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        • Animals
          • Animal breeding
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          • Animal husbandry
          • Animal shows and displays
          • Animal trade notices
          • Animal transport authorisations
          • Broiler stocking density notices
          • Contagious animal diseases
          • Destruction of animals
          • Keeping invasive alien species
          • Laboratory animals
          • Movement of animals to EU Member States and TRACES NT
          • Notification of an animal competition
          • Notification of a petting zoo
          • Notification of the keeping of animals
          • Notifications relating to professional or large-scale keeping of animals
          • Notification of transporting animals to/from Finland
          • Outdoor cattle grazing
          • Private veterinary care provision
          • Reindeer husbandry
          • Wild animal farming
          • Wildlife hospitals
        • Burials
          • Cemetery registration
        • 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
        • Early childhood education
        • Education and culture
          • Exemptions from teachers’ and head teachers’ qualification requirements
          • State aid
        • Occupational safety and health and work
        • Property development, housing and joint property management associations
          • Joint property management associations
          • Safekeeping documents
        • Real estate or letting agents
        • Social welfare and health care
          • Clinical microbiology laboratories
          • Family mediation licences
          • Limited stock of medicinal products
          • Service provider register Soteri
            • Communal housing
          • State aid towards training
            • Medical and dental education
            • Nurse prescribing courses
            • Practical training that promotes vocational skills included in Bachelor's degree in Social Services and Health Care
            • Reimbursement of the cost of university-level specialist social care training
        • Tobacco sales
        • Wealth and assets
          • Anti-money laundering registration
          • Deposits held by Regional State Administrative Agencies
          • Insurance providers’ annual fire prevention charge
          • Pawnbrokers
          • Registration of lost property offices
          • Registration of debt collectors
        • Water and the environment
          • Environmental permits
          • Exemptions from chemical quality requirements
          • Keeping invasive alien species
          • Permits under the Water Act
          • Priority in environmental and water management permit procedures
      • 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
        • Permit advice for critical raw materials projects
        • Permit advice for net-zero projects
        • Quality assurance of social services
        • Rights and status of customers
        • Rights and status of patients
        • Romani affairs
        • Wealth and assets
        • Welfare and public health
          • Preventative drug work
          • Prevention of violence in close relationships
        • Water and the environment
      • Self-regulation
        • Self-regulation of social services
        • Self-regulation plan for alcohol sales
        • Self-regulation under the Food Act
      • Enforcement and reporting violations
        • Animals
          • Reindeer husbandry
          • Private veterinary medical care
        • Competition and consumer affairs
          • Price information
          • Competition enforcement
          • Consumer credit marketing
          • Package holiday operators
          • Measuring instruments
        • Education and culture
          • Oversight of early childhood education and care services
          • Oversight of education services
          • Oversight of library services
        • Enforcement of alcohol serving and sales
        • Estate agents
        • Food
        • Health protection
        • Occupational safety and health
        • Oversight of rescue services
          • External emergency plans of high-risk establishments
          • Reporting rescue service failings
        • Public employment services
        • Reporting local authority misconduct
        • Social welfare and health care
          • Promoting welfare and public health
          • Quality assurance of social services
        • Wealth and assets
          • Debt collection agencies
          • Enforcement of the Anti-Money Laundering Act
          • Lenders and peer-to-peer loan brokers
          • Lost property offices
          • Pawnbrokers
          • Resale royalty rights
    • Government agencies
      • 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
      • 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
        • Permit advice for critical raw materials projects
        • Permit advice for net-zero projects
        • 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
          • Preventative drug work
          • Prevention of violence in close relationships
      • Licences, notices and applications
        • Animals
          • Animal welfare violations
          • Broiler welfare notices
          • Contagious animal diseases
          • Reporting violations of animal welfare laws or regulation on the protection of animals at the time of killing
        • 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
      • Self-regulation
        • Self-regulation of social services
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      • 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