- 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)
- MEE Business Sector Services
- Enterprise financing
- Working life
- Labour legislation
- Employment contract and employment relationship
- Working time 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
- 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
General requirements for products in Finland
General consumer goods
General consumer goods must not pose a danger to the health or property of anyone. General safety requirements for consumer products and services are laid down in the Consumer Safety Act. It is a general act that is not applied when other legislation contains provisions on the safety of specific consumer products or services.
General consumer goods include
- furniture,
- childcare articles,
- candles,
- textiles,
- decorative items,
- sports and exercise equipment, and
- furnishing items.
If a product is otherwise categorised under general consumer goods, but it contains, for example, electrical or pressure features, both the Consumer Safety Act and special legislation can be applied.
The Consumer Safety Act only applies to products that are intended for the use of consumers or for private consumption. The Act does not apply to products intended for professional use.
Further provisions on providing information for consumers are laid down in the Government Decree on Consumer Goods and Consumer Services.
Chemicals legislation
A significant part of the Finnish chemicals legislation is based on EU regulation. This national legislation complements and implements EU-level regulation. Statutes on chemicals include
- Chemicals Act,
- Decree on the Retail Sale of Hazardous Chemicals,
- Act on Plant Protection Products,
- Act on the Safe Handling and Storage of Dangerous Chemicals and Explosives (Chemicals Safety Act), and Act on Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment.
Standards and certification
Standards also play an important role in product design and manufacturing, product testing, safety assurance and conformity assessment.
Finland has a decentralized standardization system, in which the Standards Association SFS acts as a central organisation and develops standards together with its industry associations.
Compliance with the standards can be demonstrated by certification. In Finland, Finas accredits certification organisations.