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        • Outdoor cattle grazing
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        • Reindeer husbandry
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        • Convening a general meeting of an association
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          • 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
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          • Private provision of early childhood education and care services
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          • Joint property management associations
          • Residents’ associations
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              • Key health care concepts
                • Chief Health Care Officer
                • Criminal record extract
                • Patient and customer records
                • Patient Ombudsman
                • Pharmacotherapy policy
                • Self-regulation plan
                • Trade Register entries
                • Pre-commissioning inspection
                • Qualification and training requirements for occupational health care physicians, nurses and consultants
              • Topical guides
            • Self-employed health care professionals
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          • Registration of lost property offices
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        • Aerial forest fire surveillance
        • Alcohol marketing
        • Contagious animal diseases
        • Coordination and enforcement of health care services for prisoners and the armed forces
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        • Estate agents and letting agents
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        • Free-range pigs and poultry
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        • 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
          • Price information
          • Competition enforcement
          • Consumer credit marketing
          • Package holiday operators
          • Measuring instruments
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          • Oversight of early childhood education and care services
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          • Oversight of library services
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          • 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
          • 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
          • Private provision of early childhood education and care services
          • State aid
        • Property development, housing and joint property management associations
          • Joint property management associations
          • Residents’ associations
          • Safekeeping documents
        • Real estate or letting agents
        • Social welfare and health care
          • Family mediation licences
          • Private health care
            • Clinical microbiology laboratories
            • Private health care licences
              • Key health care concepts
                • Chief Health Care Officer
                • Criminal record extract
                • Patient and customer records
                • Patient Ombudsman
                • Pharmacotherapy policy
                • Pre-commissioning inspection
                • Self-regulation plan
                • Trade Register entries
                • Qualification and training requirements for occupational health care physicians, nurses and consultants
              • Topical guides
            • Self-employed health care professionals
          • Private social services
          • State aid towards training
            • Medical and dental education
            • Reimbursement of the cost of university-level specialist social care training
            • Nurse prescribing courses
        • Tobacco sales
        • Water and the environment
          • Permits under the Water Act
          • Environmental permits
          • Exemptions from chemical quality requirements
        • Wealth and assets
          • Deposits held by Regional State Administrative Agencies
          • Insurance providers’ annual fire prevention charge
          • Pawnbrokers
          • Registration of lenders and peer-to-peer loan brokers
          • Registration of lost property offices
          • Registration of debt collectors
        • 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
        • Health protection
        • Medicines
        • Quality assurance of social services
        • Restaurants and coronavirus
        • Rights and status of customers
        • Rights and status of patients
        • Romani affairs
        • Tobacco control and enforcement
        • Wealth and assets
        • Welfare and public health
      • Self-regulation
        • Self-regulation plan for alcohol sales
        • Self-regulation under the Food Act
        • Self-regulation of social services
      • 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
        • Reporting local authority misconduct
        • Social welfare and health care
          • Promoting welfare and public health
          • Quality assurance of social services
        • Wealth and assets
          • Resale royalty rights
    • Government agencies
      • Licences, notices and applications
        • Animals and animal testing
          • 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
          • Private health care licences
          • Self-employed health care professionals
          • State aid towards training
            • Medical and dental education
            • Nurse prescribing courses
          • Topical guides
        • Water and the environment
          • Permits under the Water Act
          • Environmental permits
      • Guidance and advice
        • 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
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      • Self-regulation
        • Self-regulation of social services
      • Enforcement and reporting violations
        • 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
        • Oversight of rescue services
          • External emergency plans of high-risk establishments
          • Reporting rescue service failings
        • Resale royalty rights
        • Social welfare and health care
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  • About us
    • Regional State Administrative Agencies
      • Southern Finland
      • Eastern Finland
      • Lapland
      • Southwestern Finland
      • Western and Inland Finland
      • Northern Finland
      • List of local authorities by region
    • Our services
      • Accessibility
      • Alcohol licensing
      • Animals
        • Laboratory animals
      • Competition and consumer affairs
      • Contagious diseases and epidemics
      • Education and culture
        • Early education
          • Preschool education
        • Education
          • Exemptions from teachers and head teachers’ qualification requirements
        • Libraries
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        • Sports
        • Youth work
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