- Enterprises
- Industrial policy
- Innovation policy
- Focus areas
- Regulation of business operations
- Internationalisation of enterprises
- Single market of the EU
- Business services
- Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
- Enterprise statistics
- Enterprise financing
- Working life
- Labour legislation
- Employment contract and employment relationship
- Working hours and annual holiday
- Improving and maintaining employees’ competence
- Non-discrimination and equality in working life
- Protection of privacy at work and working with children
- Co-operation procedure and other personnel representation systems
- Key points of the Co-operation Act
- Negotiation obligation
- Content and timing of negotiation obligation
- Duty to inform representatives of personnel groups
- Undertaking’s general plans, principles and objectives
- Personnel and training plan
- Matters to be handled in the co-operation procedure
- Co-operation procedure when the use of personnel is reduced
- Confidentiality and sanctions
- Co-operation within a Finnish group of undertakings
- Co-operation within a community-wide group of undertakings and an undertaking
- Employee Involvement in European Companies (SE) and European Cooperative Societies (SCE)
- Personnel funds
- Key points of the Co-operation Act
- Collective agreements and mediation in labour disputes
- Contractor’s obligations and liability
- Employee’s position if employer becomes insolvent
- Working life development
- Integration of immigrants
- Employment
- Support and compensations
- Employment Bulletin and Employment Service Statistics
- Labour legislation
- Energy
- Energy and climate strategy
- Electricity market
- Natural gas market
- Emissions trading
- Emissions Trading Directive
- Auctioning of emission allowances
- Emissions trading in aviation
- Free allocation of allowances during emissions trading period 2013-2020
- Aid for indirect emission costs
- Free allocation of allowances in 2021-2030
- Monitoring, reporting and verification of EU ETS emissions in 2013–2020
- Project-based mechanisms in the trading period 2013–2020
- Renewable energy
- Energy efficiency
- Energy and investment aid
- Nuclear energy
- Security of energy supply
- International and EU cooperation in the energy sector
- Energy technologies
- Competition and consumers
- Regions
EU cooperation
The goals of the EU energy policy are sustainability, competitiveness and security of supply. These goals are also consistent with Finland’s national targets. The purpose of the common EU energy policy is to achieve competitive energy prices, secure energy supply under all conditions and reduce the environmental impact of the energy sector.
In Finland, the energy issues handled Europe-wide by the Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council (TTE) are the responsibility of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment. The TTE Council meets at an assembly of energy ministers approximately three times a year. In addition, each member state holding the presidency of the Council of the EU has usually organised one unofficial meeting of energy ministers during its six-month presidency. The Council meetings address all issues related to EU energy policy, excluding nuclear energy. Together with the European Parliament, the Council passes acts concerning the activities of the energy market.
Euratom, the European research programme for nuclear research and training, was founded in 1957 to promote the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes in Europe. Euratom has almost the same legislative power as the European Union, although some of its decision-making procedures are different. Matters relating to Euratom are decided by the General Affairs Council. Within the framework of Euratom, the EU states have passed several legal acts concerning, for example, nuclear safeguards and radiation and nuclear safety.
Further information:
riku.huttunen(at)tem.fi, energy policy
katja.tuokko(at)tem.fi, Energy Council
liisa.heikinheimo(at)tem.fi, Euratom