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 whole of Lapland.
Our offices are located in Rovaniemi.
The Director-General of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Lapland is Ms Kristiina Poikajärvi. Our various divisions employ a total of approximately 40 people.
The Division of Health and Social Services, Legality and Licensing of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Lapland has national oversight in the following areas:
The Division of Education and Culture of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Lapland has national oversight in matters relating to Sámi languages.
For the latest regional news, visit the website of the Regional Council of Lapland.
The Regional Council of Lapland
Information on our services can be found here:
Occupational safety and environmental permits in the area of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Lapland are handled by the Regional State Administrative Agency for Northern Finland.
Our national duties include
Regional State Administrative Agency for Lapland – head office
Postal address: P.O. Box 3, 13035 AVI, Finland
Please send your letter to the P.O. Box of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Lapland (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: Pilke, Ounasjoentie 6, Rovaniemi
[email protected]
Telephone: +358 (0)29 501 6000
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 email attachments is 20 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)
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 Kristiina Poikajärvi, tel. +358 (0)29 501 6654
Planning Officer Satu Salonen, tel. +358 (0)295 017 029
Basic Public Services, Legal Rights and Permits
Education and Culture
Rescue Services and Preparedness
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: 00370245428436601
PEPPOL address: 0216:00370245428436601
Business ID: 0245428-4
VAT code: FI02454284
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].
