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Pia SillanpääEach row shows how the selected MPs voted in the bill's decisive vote.
- HE 244/2022 vpPassed with amendments
Digitalising the Trade Register and strengthening oversight
Filing with the Trade Register will become largely mandatory in electronic format for businesses, and companies will have to confirm their details annually. At the same time, the mandatory requirement to register in the Trade Register will be abolished for most sole traders.
Pia Sillanpää: No vote recorded16 Mar 2023 · passed without a vote - HE 224/2022 vpPassed with amendments
Automated tax and customs decisions
The Finnish Tax Administration and Finnish Customs will be able to resolve certain clear claims for revised assessment and routine matters automatically without separate processing by an official. The change will speed up processing and streamline tax services.
Pia Sillanpää: No vote recorded16 Mar 2023 · passed without a vote - HE 217/2022 vpPassed with amendments
Reforming coercive measures in criminal investigations
Coercive measures used by the police and other authorities in criminal investigations will be clarified and made more effective. At the same time, the protection of fundamental rights for persons subjected to coercive measures and victims of crime will be improved.
Pia Sillanpää: No vote recorded16 Mar 2023 · passed without a vote - HE 65/2020 vpPassed
Expanding asylum seekers' right to work
Asylum seekers already in Finland will be granted the right to work in agriculture, forestry, horticulture and fisheries immediately without a waiting period. Work can continue despite a refusal-of-entry decision for as long as the person is covered by reception services.
Pia Sillanpää: No vote recorded11 Jun 2020 · 5 votes43 jaa11 ei - HE 270/2022 vpPassed with amendments
Updating rules on old nature reserves
Protection provisions for national parks, strict nature reserves and other protected areas established before 1996 will be elevated from decree level directly into acts of Parliament. The boundaries and main rules of use for the areas will remain largely unchanged, but they will be aligned with the new Nature Conservation Act.
Pia Sillanpää: No vote recorded14 Mar 2023 · 3 votesClosest vote · Lausumaehdotus, mietintö / Heikki Autto
105 jaa80 ei - HE 247/2022 vpPassed with amendments
Reforming data protection for biobanks
The processing of personal data by biobanks will be brought into line with the requirements of the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Consent will still be required to provide a sample, but the processing of data in a biobank will be based on the public interest.
Pia Sillanpää: No vote recorded14 Mar 2023 · passed without a vote - HE 270/2016 vpPassed with amendments
Downsizing and centralising district courts
The number of district courts in Finland will be reduced from 27 to 20, and their court locations will be cut. In addition, the handling of certain demanding categories of cases, such as company reorganisations and maritime law cases, will be centralised in fewer district courts than before.
Pia Sillanpää: No vote recorded24 Nov 2017 · 1 vote95 jaa77 ei - HE 293/2022 vpPassed with amendments
Reform of pilotage rules and licences
The obligation to use a pilot for vessels operating in Finnish waters will be clarified, and the pilotage certificate system will be reformed. Administrative fines will be imposed for breaches of pilotage rules instead of criminal sanctions.
Pia Sillanpää: No vote recorded8 Mar 2023 · passed without a vote - HE 288/2022 vpPassed
Clarifying derogation permits for protected game
The conditions for granting derogation permits for protected game animals will be clarified to correspond to the interpretation of EU law. A derogation permit may only be granted if it does not prevent the maintenance or achievement of a favourable conservation status for the species.
Pia Sillanpää: No vote recorded8 Mar 2023 · 2 votesClosest vote · Lausumaehdotus, mietintö / Jenni Pitko 2
64 jaa95 ei - HE 280/2022 vpPassed with amendments
Graduating soft drinks tax by sugar
The soft drinks tax will be graduated into six tiers based on the product's sugar content. Taxation on sugar-free and low-sugar drinks will be reduced, while the tax on drinks with a high sugar content will increase.
Pia Sillanpää: No vote recorded8 Mar 2023 · passed without a vote - HE 184/2022 vpPassed with amendments
Transferring smoke alarm responsibility to building owners
Procurement and maintenance of smoke alarms in dwellings will be transferred from residents to building owners, such as housing companies. At the same time, the leadership of rescue operations, situational picture activities, and authorities' supervisory duties will be clarified.
Pia Sillanpää: No vote recorded8 Mar 2023 · passed without a vote - HE 140/2022 vpPassed with amendments
Centralising built environment data
A national digital information system will be created in Finland to bring together information on land use planning and building in one single place. Plans and plot divisions will be drawn up in a standardised, machine-readable data model format.
Pia Sillanpää: No vote recorded8 Mar 2023 · passed without a vote - HE 53/2022 vpPassed with amendments
Enshrining state premises leasing in law
The obligation of state agencies to lease their premises primarily from the Senate Group will be transferred from a decree directly into an act. At the same time, the conditions under which premises may exceptionally be leased from other operators will be clarified.
Pia Sillanpää: No vote recorded8 Mar 2023 · passed without a vote - HE 220/2021 vpPassed with amendments
Reforming dangerous goods transport rules
The Act on the Transport of Dangerous Goods would be reformed to meet modern safety requirements, EU regulation and international agreements. Supervision, division of responsibilities and permit procedures would be clarified for road, rail, maritime and air transport.
Pia Sillanpää: No vote recorded8 Mar 2023 · passed without a vote - HE 231/2022 vpPassed with amendments
Reforming penalties for transporting dangerous goods
Penalties for minor infractions related to the transport of dangerous goods will change from criminal fines to administrative fees. The police, Finnish Customs and the Finnish Border Guard will be able to impose a traffic penalty fee directly for such acts, and supervisory agencies will be able to impose a penalty payment.
Pia Sillanpää: No vote recorded7 Mar 2023 · passed without a vote - HE 301/2022 vpPassed with amendments
Publishing appellate board interests online
Interests of members of social security appeal boards and the Traffic and Patient Accident Board will be compiled into a public online register alongside information on judges. Anyone will be able to search and inspect the public interest information of board members in the register maintained by the Legal Register Centre.
Pia Sillanpää: No vote recorded6 Mar 2023 · passed without a vote - HE 271/2022 vpPassed
Approving a counter-terrorism treaty
Finland will approve the Council of Europe Additional Protocol on the prevention of terrorism and intensify international information exchange on foreign terrorist fighters. At the same time, the Criminal Code will be amended so that receiving training is also punishable for less serious terrorist offences.
Pia Sillanpää: No vote recorded6 Mar 2023 · 1 vote - HE 267/2022 vpPassed with amendments
Reforming Business Finland and job seeking
The division of responsibilities between the Business Finland company and the funding agency will be clarified, and public administrative tasks will be transferred to the funding agency, which operates as an authority. At the same time, foreign jobseekers will be enabled to create a profile on Job Market Finland without Finnish strong electronic identification.
Pia Sillanpää: No vote recorded6 Mar 2023 · passed without a vote - HE 236/2021 vpPassed with amendments
Strengthening anti-money laundering measures
Rules on preventing money laundering and terrorist financing will be clarified and supervision tightened in line with international obligations. The changes expand the supervision and obligations of reporting entities to detect suspicious assets and activities.
Pia Sillanpää: No vote recorded6 Mar 2023 · passed without a vote - HE 57/2020 vpPassed with amendments
Substantially increasing Finnvera's corporate financing
The state is increasing Finnvera's domestic financing authorisation to ease economic difficulties caused by the coronavirus crisis. The objective is to secure companies' access to bank loans and prevent viable companies from going bankrupt.
Pia Sillanpää: No vote recorded20 May 2020 · passed without a vote