The activities of the Regional State Administrative Agencies will end at the end the year 2025. Most of our tasks will be transferred to the new Finnish Supervisory Agency, which will launch its operations on 1 January 2026. Tasks related to animal health and welfare and to food will be transferred to the Finnish Food Authority. Competition and consumer administration tasks will be transferred to the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority.
Read more: Reform of regional state administration
We cover the regions of Kanta-Häme, Päijät-Häme, Uusimaa, Kymenlaakso and South Karelia.
Our head office is in Hämeenlinna, and we have branches in Helsinki and Kouvola. We also employ staff in Lappeenranta, Lahti, Turku, Tampere, Kuopio, Mikkeli, Oulu, Jyväskylä, Joensuu, Rovaniemi and Vaasa.
The Director-General of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland is Ms Merja Ekqvist.
We employ more than 500 people in different locations.
Information on our services can be found here:
The Division of Basic Public Services, Legal Rights and Permits of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland has national oversight in the following areas:
The Division of Education and Culture of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland has national oversight in the following area:
The Division of Rescue Services and Preparedness of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland has national oversight in the following areas:
The Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland also has jurisdiction over environmental and water permit issues in Southwestern Finland.
The Division of Occupational Safety and Health of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland has national oversight in the following areas:
Our Division of Administrative and Development Services is formally part of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland, but it provides administrative services for all Regional State Administrative Agencies nationwide. There are administrative staff in all of our offices around the country.
Southern Finland has
We are also responsible for national duties across the country. Our national duties include
Read more about our responsibilities in the Divisions section.
Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland – head office
Postal address: P.O. Box 1, 13035 AVI, Finland
Please send your letter to the P.O. Box of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland (not the visiting address). Please address the letter only to the Regional State Administrative Agency (post with an official's name will cause delays in the processing of your matter).
Visiting address: Wähäjärvenkatu 6, Hämeenlinna
[email protected]
Telephone: +358 (0)29 501 6000
Fax: +358 (0)29 501 6661
Office hours: Monday–Friday, 8.00 am – 4.15 pm
Please only send documents containing confidential or otherwise sensitive information via secure email. The maximum size of emails including attachments is 50 MB. Larger files should be compressed or sent in multiple emails. Please remember that any information sent to us by email is at the sender’s risk.
Contact information of the staff
Personnel search (in Finnish)
Helsinki office
Postal address: P.O. Box 1, 13035 AVI, Finland
Please send your letter to the P.O. Box of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland (not to the visiting address). Please address the letter only to the Regional State Administrative Agency (post with an official's name will cause delays in the processing of your matter).
Visiting address: Ratapihantie 9, Helsinki
Fax: +358 (0)29 501 6661
Kouvola office
Postal address: P.O. Box 1, 13035 AVI, Finland
Please send your letter to the P.O. Box of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland (not to the visiting address). Please address the letter only to the Regional State Administrative Agency (post with an official's name will cause delays in the processing of your matter).
Visiting address: Valimontie 5, Kouvola
Fax: +358 (0)29 501 6661
Please make an appointment in advance with the person you wish to see.
Hämeenlinna head office
Division of Environmental Permits
Postal address: P.O. Box 1, 13035 AVI, Finland
Please send your letter to the P.O. Box of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland (not to the visiting address). Please address the letter only to the Regional State Administrative Agency (post with an official's name will cause delays in the processing of your matter).
Visiting address: Wähäjärvenkatu 6, Hämeenlinna
Fax: +358 (0)29 501 6661
Helsinki office
Division of Environmental Permits
Postal address: P.O. Box 1, 13035 AVI, Finland
Please send your letter to the P.O. Box of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland (not to the visiting address). Please address the letter only to the Regional State Administrative Agency (post with an official's name will cause delays in the processing of your matter).
Visiting address: Ratapihantie 9, Helsinki
Turku office
Postal address: P.O. Box 4, 13035 AVI, Finland (unofficial correspondence only)
Visiting address: Kulttuurikuja 1, Turku
We serve customers by phone through a national telephone service tel. 0295 016 620 and by email at [email protected].
For the full contact details of occupational safety and health authorities, visit the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s website.
Our email format is [email protected]. For general enquiries, please use our generic email addresses. Your email will then be forwarded to the competent person in our organisation.
Director-General Merja Ekqvist
Management Assistant Taina Kemppi, tel. +358 (0)29 501 6051
Basic Public Services, Legal Rights and Permits
Rescue Services and Preparedness
Environmental Permits
Education and Culture
Occupational Safety and Health
Administrative and Development Services
Communications
You can use the personnel search to find the contact information of our staff.
Personnel search
We only accept e-invoices. Send your invoice via Posti Messaging, the e-invoicing operator used by central government. Make sure that your invoice meets the European standard for e-invoicing. You can send attachments with your e-invoice in PDF format.
Operator ID (Posti Messaging Oy): FI28768767
EDI ID: 00371094544636101
PEPPOL address: 0216:00371094544636101
Business ID: 1094544-6
VAT code: FI10945446
Invoice reference details: details provided by the client
Make sure that the invoice contains all reference information provided by the client (at least the business unit ID and the client’s name). This speeds up the processing of the invoice. Payment term is 21 days in accordance with the general terms of public procurement in service and supply contracts.
We do not accept invoices sent by email or on paper because they are not e-invoices (Act 241/2019). Make sure that your invoice contains all the information required under the Value Added Tax Act. We do not pay inaccurate or incomplete invoices and will return them to the sender unpaid.
If you do not have any system to produce e-invoices, you can use the Handi supplier portal or Basware Portal provided by central government to prepare and send e-invoices.
Act on Electronic Invoicing 241/2019 (finlex.fi; the page is in Finnish)
VAT invoice requirements (vero.fi)
General Terms of Public Procurement in Service and Supply Contracts (vm.fi)
For questions about the use of the Handi supplier portal, contact the Finnish Government Shared Services Centre for Finance and HR (Palkeet). Palkeet customer support (8.00–16.15) tel. +358 (0)2955 64060 and email [email protected].
