- 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 and Investment Aid
- Nuclear energy
- Security of energy supply
- International and EU cooperation in the energy sector
- Energy technologies
- Competition and consumers
- Regions
Renewable and clean energy
The International Renewable Energy Agency IRENA
The International Renewable Energy Agency IRENA is an intergovernmental organisation that focuses on promoting renewable energy. It was founded in 2009 and Finland became a member in 2011. IRENA’s head office is in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Its Innovation and Technology Centre is located in Bonn, Germany.
Further information: kati.veijonen(at)tem.fi
CEM and Mission Innovation
Finland is working together internationally with the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) and the Mission Innovation (MI) initiative created alongside CEM. Practically all the G20 countries and four of the Nordic countries are involved in these forums.
CEM has several collaboration initiatives ongoing in the field of clean energy and, based on their own interests, each participating country decides which ones they want to participate and invest in. Previously funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the CEM secretariat has now moved to the IEA and its operations are funded by the CEM states.
Mission Innovation (MI) is a global initiative announced at the Paris climate conference in 2015. Its goal is to increase ecological energy innovations in order to mitigate climate change and secure clean energy sources. Finland became a member in September 2016. The member countries have pledged to double their research and development funding for clean technology by 2020.
MI’s Innovation Challenges (MICs) incorporate innovation cooperation in seven areas, including smart grids, sustainable biofuels and affordable heating and cooling of buildings.
Further information: pentti.puhakka(at)tem.fi, timo.ritonummi(at)tem.fi