Regional State Administrative Agency for Western and Inland Finland

Our national duties include

• duties relating to lost property offices 
• duties relating to Swedish-language early childhood education and care and teaching.

Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland

• registration and enforcement relating to the fight against money laundering and terrorism
• consultancy, coordination and enforcement of web accessibility requirements
• preparation of a national expert assessment of rescue services
• coordination of the national occupational safety and health helpline

Regional State Administrative Agency for Eastern Finland

• licensing and enforcement relating to the Funeral Services Act and land register services
• state aid towards the maintenance of Finnish cemeteries in the ceded territory and war graves of the displaced population as well as maintenance of graves of Russian prisoners of war

Regional State Administrative Agency for Lapland

• upholding the Sámi language
• enforcement of the Reindeer Husbandry Act
• reindeer meat control and enforcement
• recovery of aid under the Act Repealing the Act on the Regeneration of Lapland’s Low-yielding Forests

Regional State Administrative Agency for Southwestern Finland

• administration of state grants for social welfare and health services development projects
• administration and supervision of state aid for rescue services
• internal audits of Regional State Administrative Agencies.

Regional State Administrative Agency for Western and Inland Finland

• lost property offices
• education in Swedish
• research and development projects in the construction of sports facilities
• joint administration of rental houses and right-of-residence housing
• confirmation of the statutes of joint property management associations.

Regional State Administrative Agency for Northern Finland

• coordination and enforcement of health care services for prisoners and the armed forces
• aerial forest fire surveillance
• nationwide occupational safety and health communications

Regional State Administrative Agency for Western and Inland Finland – head office

Postal address: P.O. Box 5, 13035 AVI, Finland

Please send your letter to the P.O. Box of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Western and Inland 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: Wolffintie 35, Vaasa

[email protected]
Telephone: +358 (0)29 501 6000
Fax: +358 (0)6 317 4817

Office hours: Monday–Friday, 8.00 am – 4.15 pm

• Administrative matters (e.g. enquiries, complaints, appeals): [email protected]; submit official documents, have them entered into our case management system and find out about the competent authority in each case.
• Occupational Safety and Health: [email protected]
• Communications: Head of Communications Mirella Kivelä ([email protected], tel. +358 295 018 103)

Please only send documents containing confidential or otherwise sensitive information via secure email. The maximum size of emails including the 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.

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Contact information of the staff

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Tampere office

Postal address: P.O. Box 5, 13035 AVI, Finland

Please send your letter to the P.O. Box of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Western and Inland 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: Yliopistonkatu 38, Tampere

Jyväskylä office

Postal address: P.O. Box 5, 13035 AVI, Finland

Please send your letter to the P.O. Box of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Western and Inland 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: Hannikaisenkatu 47, 40100 Jyväskylä

Please make an appointment with the person you wish to see in advance.

Occupational Safety and Health

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 Marko Pukkinen
Secretary to the Director-General Elisabet Heinrich, tel. +358 (0)29 501 8511

Basic Public Services, Legal Rights and Permits

• Director Leena Laajala, tel. +358 (0)29 501 8549
• Head of Trade Supervision Unit Maarit Laaninen, tfn 0295 018 552
• Head of Legality Kristian Dahl, tfn 0295 018 528
• Head of Social Welfare and Health Care Niina Siirilä, tfn 0295 018 563
• Head of Environmental Health Matti Nyberg, tfn 0295 018 572 

Education and Culture

• Director Esa Kaunisto, tel. +358 (0)29 501 8150

Swedish-language education

• Director Marianne West-Ståhl, tel. +358 (0)29 501 8623

Rescue Services and Preparedness

• Director Tarja Wiikinkoski, tel. +358 (0)29 501 8800

Occupational Safety and Health

• Director Hanna Makkula, tel. +358 (0)29 5018 559

Environmental Permits

• Director Tarja Savea, tel. +358 (0)29 501 8777

Communications

• Head of communications Mirella Kivelä, tel. +358 (0)29 501 8103
• other contact information, see avi.fi/en/communications  

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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: 00372284140936401
PEPPOL address: 0216:00372284140936401
Business ID: 2284140-9
VAT code: FI22841409
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. 

Central government supplier portals for sending e-invoices and instructions for using the portals can be found on the State Treasury’s website (valtiokonttori.fi)

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].