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fi sv en Cooperation between the state and the municipalities The Ministry of Finance monitors the activities and the finances of municipalities in general. The Ministry ensures that municipal autonomy is taken into account when preparing legislat...

Cooperation The purpose of the statutory cooperation arrangements for employee involvement is to provide staff the opportunity to influence decision-making concerning their work and working conditions and the operation of their workplace. To impro...

Cooperation between municipalities and wellbeing services counties Wellbeing services counties and municipalities share residents and need to cooperate in many ways to provide services to residents. They also have common duties, such as promotion ...

Mobility of personnel Central government has a long-standing practice of supporting the mobility of its personnel within their home organisations, within central government as a whole and outside of central government. Mobility of personnel helps ...

Local government employees The Ministry of Finance prepares the legislation on the legal status of local government officials. The Ministry of Finance is also tasked with monitoring and financing the municipal pension system. Making the collective...

The annual European Union budget is based on the multiannual financial framework. The framework sets the limits for each spending category in the annual budget.

Local government The Ministry of Finance is responsible for developing legislation and administration that generally relates to the local authorities, the system of central government transfers to local government for basic public services, local ...

The objective of the group is to harmonise practices relating to information management and information guidance in public administration and to promote the interoperability of public services.

Priority of digital communications by public authorities The Programme of Prime Minister Petteri Orpo's Government states that Finland will gradually shift to making digital services the primary channel for accessing the services of public authori...

The Ministry of Finance establishes a working group to develop the assessment of the macroeconomic impacts related to climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as the green transition. The work will be carried out in cooperation with the relevant ministries, the research community in the field, and the statistical authorities.

The project will be carried out under the Coordination Group for Digitalisation. The Ministry of Transport and Communications will have the overall responsibility for the project. Other contributors will include the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment. The project will be implemented in cooperation with the Ministry of Finance (incl. the GenAI network) and the Prime Minister’s Office.

The Government has appointed a parliamentary working group to prepare for the future of municipalities.

fi sv en Data protection On this website, we explain how we process personal data, how you can exercise your data protection rights, what personal data we collect, and what the processing of personal data is based on. Processing of personal data b...

Central government guidance and direction This refers to a set of procedures, systems and methods, and the documents associated with them, that support leadership and management. Leadership and management work hand in hand with guidance and direct...

Advisory boards of Coordination Group for Digitalisation Section 7 of the Act on Information Management in Public Administration (906/2019) tasks the Ministry of Finance with ensuring that cooperation practices and procedures for authorities opera...

Steering of information management in public administration The Ministry of Finance carries out its duty to steer information management in public administration in the following ways. The Ministry of Finance is responsible for ensuring that coope...

30.4.2026 | FINNISH GOVERNMENT PO Box 23, FI-00023 Government, Finland vn.fi/en Tel. +358 295 16001 VALTIONEUVOSTO PL 23, 00023 Valtioneuvosto vn.fi p. 0295 16001 1(8) Spending limits session of Prime Minister Orpo’s Government on 21–22 April 2026 Entries in ...

Customs Customs taxation and procedures are an integral part of the European Union. Customs duties are based on common customs legislation which has mainly replaced the national customs legislations of the EU Member States; in fact, the field of c...

Towards Interoperable Europe Interoperable Europe is a decades-long strategic goal. The aim is to ensure that citizens and businesses have access to better and more efficient digital public services in the European Union. The provision of digital ...

In the impact assessment, project managers assessed the results and impact of their projects and discussed how their projects contributed to implementing the strategy for the prevention of the shadow economy and economic crime. In addition, actions recommended during the projects and any new proposed actions were reported. These were reported by 33 projects.