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7 bills

Topic regional government7
  1. HE 23/2026 vpPassed

    Abolishing regional sports councils

    Regional sports councils will be abolished as a result of the reform of central government regional administration. Regional administration of sports matters will be centralised in the national Licensing and Supervisory Agency without separate regional expert bodies.

    30 Apr 2026 · 2 votes
    153 jaa
    26 ei
  2. HE 31/2026 vpPassed

    Correcting authorisations for organic inspection

    The Finnish Food Authority will be able to commission authorised inspectors for organic production alongside vitality centres. The amendment corrects a legal error that arose during an earlier reform and restores previous practice.

    16 Apr 2026 · passed without a vote
  3. HE 13/2025 vpPassed with amendments

    Reforming central government regional administration

    Central government regional administration will be reformed by merging the Regional State Administrative Agencies, Valvira (the National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health) and parts of the ELY Centres (Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment) into a new nationwide Licensing and Supervisory Agency. At the same time, the current ELY Centres will be replaced by new vitality centres from 1 January 2026.

    19 Jun 2025 · 5 votes
    153 jaa
    32 ei
  4. HE 41/2025 vpPassed with amendments

    Centralising and streamlining environmental permits

    Environmental permit and assessment procedures will be brought together under the new national Licensing and Supervisory Agency, allowing different permits to be processed at once in the same place. The reform will accelerate and streamline permitting for investments and extend the priority processing of green transition projects.

    19 Jun 2025 · 6 votes

    Closest vote · Proposed statement 2

    121 jaa
    62 ei
  5. HE 90/2015 vpPassed with amendments

    Centralising government grant payments

    The disbursement, recovery and supervision of government grants and compensation granted by the ELY Centres will be centralised at the KEHA Centre. At the same time, the administrative duties of the Centre for Non-Military Service will be transferred from the Southeast Finland ELY Centre to the KEHA Centre.

    18 Dec 2015 · passed without a vote
  6. HE 62/2021 vpPassed with amendments

    Reforming government services' regional presence

    The traditional central government regionalisation model will be abandoned and replaced by nationwide planning for government services and units. The Government will draw up a plan for each parliamentary term to steer the placement of government functions and the multichannel availability of services.

    2 Jul 2021 · passed without a vote
  7. HE 8/2015 vpPassed with amendments

    Reforming rules on territorial cooperation groupings

    Finland will reform its act on European groupings of territorial cooperation to align with EU regulation. The amendment will make it easier to establish and manage cross-border regional development projects.

    29 Oct 2015 · passed without a vote