- 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
The Finnish Space Committee brings national actors together
Finland’s space policy falls under the responsibilities of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment. Operating under the Ministry as an advisory body, the Finnish Space Committee brings together the perspectives of various administrative branches. The Committee was responsible for the formulation of the National Strategy for Finland’s Space Activities 2013–2020 and is systematically monitoring its implementation.
Finland has been a member of the European Space Agency (ESA) since 1995. Finnish participation in ESA’s research and science programmes is coordinated by Business Finland.
The composition of the Committee 6.9.2019 - 5.9.2022:
Chairman: Director-General Ilona Lundström, Ministry of Employment and the Economy
Vice Chairman: Director of Unit Päivi Antikainen, Ministry of Transport and Communications
Members:
Deputy Director-General Tanja Jääskeläinen, Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Director of Unit Kai Knape, Ministry of Defence
Research Director Tanja Suni, Ministry of the Environment
Director-General Pentti Lähteenoja, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Deputy Director General for Rescue Services Janne Koivukoski, Ministry of the Interior
Counsellor of Education Paavo-Petri Ahonen, Ministry of Education and Culture
Director General Juhani Damski, Finnish Meteorological Institute
Head of Space Kimmo Kanto, Business Finland
Director Susan Linko, Academy of Finland
General Manager Veera Sylvius, Space Systems Finland/Association of Finnish Defence and Aerospace In-dustries AFDA
Director Juha-Matti Liukkonen, Reaktor Group/Association of Finnish Defence and Aerospace Industries AFDA
Professor Minna Palmroth, University of Helsinki/Finnish National Committee of COSPAR
The Committee has a secretariat which operates in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment.
Further information:
Maija Lönnqvist - maija.lonnqvist(at)tem.fi
Jenni Tapio - jenni.tapio(at)tem.fi
Tuija Ypyä - tuija.ypya(at)tem.fi
Heidi Pennanen - heidi.pennanen(at)tem.fi