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Mats LöfströmEach row shows how the selected MPs voted in the bill's decisive vote.
- HE 8/2024 vpPassed
Abolishing adult education allowance and job alternation
The adult education allowance, the scholarship for qualified competence and job alternation leave will be abolished entirely. Employees and entrepreneurs will no longer be able to receive these financial benefits during periods of study or leave from working life.
Mats Löfström: Yes23 May 2024 · 5 votes86 jaa74 ei - HE 19/2024 vpPassed
Updating references for healthcare VAT exemption
Statutory references concerning the value added tax exemption for health and medical care services are updated to align with the new supervision legislation. The tax exemption for services remains unchanged both in mainland Finland and in Åland.
Mats Löfström: No vote recorded17 May 2024 · passed without a vote - HE 5/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Clarifying collection of fines and penalties
The recovery of fines, infringement fees and other administrative sanctions and the limitation rules will be harmonised. At the same time, the penal demand procedure used in fining will be abolished and the recovery of crime damage compensation will be centralised to the Legal Register Centre.
Mats Löfström: No vote recorded23 May 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 205/2024 vpPassed with amendments
Strengthening the protection of critical infrastructure
The resilience of services and infrastructure vital to society will be strengthened under a new general act. At the same time, mandatory personnel security clearances will be introduced for certain employees in ports handling international traffic.
Mats Löfström: No vote recorded23 May 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 24/2025 vpPassed
Clarifying emissions trading and technical amendments
The Emissions Trading Act will be updated to align more closely with EU legislation, and technical errors identified in the act will be corrected. At the same time, the rules on when installations burning large amounts of biomass must be covered by emissions trading will be clarified.
Mats Löfström: No vote recorded22 May 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 49/2022 vpPassed
Enabling EU Asylum Agency assistance
Finland will be able to request and receive expert assistance from the European Union Agency for Asylum, for example in situations of large-scale entry. The agency's experts will be able to assist Finnish authorities in registering asylum seekers and examining applications.
Mats Löfström: Absent21 Jun 2022 · 1 vote108 jaa39 ei - HE 23/2025 vpPassed
Raising special risk export guarantee authorisations
The maximum amount of special risk-taking export guarantees granted by Finnvera will be raised from 8 billion euros to 12 billion euros. The amendment secures access to financing for large export projects of Finnish companies.
Mats Löfström: No vote recorded15 May 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 6/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Aligning Defence Forces tasks with NATO
Participation in NATO's collective defence will be added to the statutory tasks of the Finnish Defence Forces. At the same time, operations by allied forces and the movement of equipment in Finland will be facilitated.
Mats Löfström: No vote recorded14 May 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 11/2024 vpPassed
KKV's role in supervising tech giants
The Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority (KKV) will become the national contact authority in Finland for the EU's Digital Markets Act. The authority will assist the European Commission in supervising major digital platform companies, exchanging information, and conducting inspections.
Mats Löfström: No vote recorded19 Apr 2024 · passed without a vote - HE 1/2024 vpPassed with amendments
Strengthening Border Guard staffing and preparedness
The Finnish Border Guard will be able to fill certain civilian posts without a public application procedure and make more flexible use of cadet students to assist during disruptions. The amendments protect official operations from intelligence gathering and improve responsiveness to various security threats.
Mats Löfström: No vote recorded19 Apr 2024 · passed without a vote - HE 95/2023 vpPassed with amendments
Reforming track charges and investment funding
Infrastructure managers will be able to raise track access charges more than at present to finance new and upgraded rail sections. At the same time, rules on railway operating licences and safety oversight will be clarified.
Mats Löfström: No vote recorded19 Apr 2024 · passed without a vote - HE 94/2023 vpPassed with amendments
Clarifying the land consolidation support system
Support rules for agricultural and forestry land consolidation will be updated to comply with European Union state aid legislation. Landowners participating in land consolidation will have to apply for administrative support for proceedings and investment aid through a separate application.
Mats Löfström: No vote recorded11 Apr 2024 · passed without a vote - HE 20/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Reforming maritime safety and reporting rules
Vessels will be required to report containers lost at sea, and fire safety requirements for ships will be improved. In addition, the processing of fairway dues will be streamlined by permitting automated decision-making for certain claims for revised assessment.
Mats Löfström: No vote recorded9 May 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 212/2024 vpPassed with amendments
Banning mobile phones during lessons
The use of mobile phones and other mobile devices during lessons will be prohibited by law, and their use will be permitted only with a teacher's permission for learning or for health care purposes. Schools must issue rules of conduct regarding the use and storage of phones for the entire school day.
Mats Löfström: Absent30 Apr 2025 · 1 voteOnly vote · Dissenting opinion
133 jaa28 ei - HE 157/2024 vpPassed with amendments
Enhancing anti-money laundering and information exchange
Information exchange between authorities will be improved to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing and to safeguard national security. At the same time, the format of reports on suspicious transactions will be harmonised and the access to information rights of the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (Supo) will be corrected.
Mats Löfström: No vote recorded30 Apr 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 320/2022 vpPassed with amendments
Temporary windfall taxes on energy
A temporary additional tax would be imposed on companies in the electricity sector and the fossil fuel sector on exceptionally high profits in 2023. The tax would channel excess returns accumulated during the energy crisis to the state.
Mats Löfström: No vote recorded14 Mar 2023 · passed without a vote - HE 105/2023 vpPassed
Clarifying criminalisation of misappropriating EU funds
The misappropriation of European Union funds and attempts to do so will be explicitly criminalised in the Criminal Code. At the same time, corporate criminal liability will be extended to certain bribery and misappropriation offences that damage the EU's finances.
Mats Löfström: No vote recorded15 Mar 2024 · passed without a vote - HE 9/2025 vpPassed
Enhancing the protection of international waters
Finland approves the UN agreement on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction. The national Marine Protection Act will be supplemented so that high seas projects are brought within the scope of environmental impact assessments and permit procedures.
Mats Löfström: No vote recorded23 Apr 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 1/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Licensing the export of cartridge components
Exports of firearm cartridge components, such as cartridge cases, bullets and powder, outside the European Union will become subject to a licence. Exporting them without a licence will be made a punishable offence.
Mats Löfström: No vote recorded23 Apr 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 219/2024 vpPassed
Tougher penalties for street gang crime
More severe penalties will be imposed for offences linked to the activities of street gangs and for humiliating violence. In addition, using a child under 15 years of age to commit an offence will be made a distinct punishable offence.
Mats Löfström: No vote recorded23 Apr 2025 · passed without a vote