- 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 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
- Project-based mechanisms in the trading period 2013–2020
- Renewable energy
- Energy efficiency
- Energy Efficiency Directive and Energy Efficiency Act
- Nuclear energy
- Security of energy supply
- International and EU cooperation in the energy sector
- Energy technologies
- Competition and consumers
- Regions
- Objectives and planning of regional development
- Regional innovations and experimentations
- Urban development
- Structural change
- EU’s regional and structural policy
- ELY Centres
Nordic cooperation
The energy cooperation of the Nordic countries falls under the authority of the Nordic Council of Ministers. This Council is the official collaborative body of the governments of the Nordic countries. The target of the Nordic countries’ work together within the fields of economic development, energy and regional policy is to promote an efficient energy economy with acceptable environmental impacts in the Nordic countries, the Baltic Sea region and other neighbouring areas. The most significant results have been achieved in the development of the Nordic electricity market.
The Committees of Senior Officials in the Nordic Council of Ministers are comprised of national officials whose duty it is to prepare for and monitor issues in several focus areas. The Committee of Senior Officials for Energy Policy prepare for issues concerning energy.
Finland participates in the Nordic collaboration regarding renewable energy within the Working Group for Renewable Energy (AGFE) of the Nordic Council of Ministers. The group contributes to the support given to Nordic politicians and experts in their work through information exchange and cooperation projects.
Nordic Nuclear Safety Research (NKS), which focuses on reactor safety and emergency preparedness, is also implemented as a Nordic collaboration. Its target is to fortify information-related and strategic preparedness. All the key authorities, research institutes and nuclear power companies from the Nordic countries are involved in this cooperation.
Further information:
kati.veijonen(at)tem.fi, AGFE
jorma.aurela(at)tem.fi, NKS
maria.kekki(at)tem.fi, Energiapolitiikan virkamieskomitea