Abolishing the waste oil charge
Act repealing the Waste Oil Charge Act
The waste oil charge levied on lubricating oils and preparations will be abolished from the beginning of 2020. However, government grants for waste oil management may be paid from previously accumulated funds until the end of 2021.
- Status
- Passed
- Submitted
- 7 Oct 2019
- Latest event
- 22 Nov 2019
- Votes
- 0
- Speeches
- 1
- Confirmed
- 29 Nov 2019
- Statute
- 1119/2019
- Source
- eduskunta.fi ↗
What is proposed
The Waste Oil Charge Act will be repealed, abolishing the excise duty of 5.75 cents per kilogram from 1 January 2020.
What it means
The liability to pay the charge will end for more than a hundred manufacturers and importers of lubricating oils, reducing their costs by a total of around 4 million euros per year. At the same time, annual transfers of around 3 million euros from the central government budget to the Oil Pollution Compensation Fund for cleaning up contaminated soil and groundwater areas will cease.
How Parliament voted
The bill passed without a vote – no MP proposed rejecting or amending it in plenary.
Debate in the chamber
MPs' plenary speeches verbatim from the parliamentary record. Open a debate to read what was said about the bill and by whom. Speeches are shown in their original language.
1 speech · 1 speaker · 1 debate
Yleiskeskustelu päättyi. Eduskunta hyväksyi hallituksen esitykseen HE 26/2019 vp sisältyvän lakiehdotuksen sisällön mietinnön mukaisena. Lakiehdotuksen ensimmäinen käsittely päättyi.
Stages of consideration
The bill's path from the preliminary debate to the decision, as recorded by Parliament.
- 7 Oct 2019Eduskuntakäsittelyn vireilletulo · Valtiovarainministeriö
- 8 Oct 2019Lähetekeskustelu · Täysistunto
- 8 Nov 2019Valiokunnan mietintö tai lausunto · valtiovarainvaliokunta
- 13 Nov 2019Ensimmäinen käsittely · Täysistunto
- 19 Nov 2019Toinen käsittely · Täysistunto
- 21 Nov 2019Eduskunnan vastaus ja kirjelmä
Decisions by law proposal1
- 1Laki öljyjätemaksusta annetun lain kumoamisestaHyväksytty · 1119/2019 · 29 Nov 2019
Proposed law text
The law proposals in the bill as the Government presented them. The final act may differ after committee consideration.
The law text is shown in Finnish or Swedish from Parliament's official documents; it is not translated into English.
Laki öljyjätemaksusta annetun lain kumoamisesta
Eduskunnan päätöksen mukaisesti säädetään:
1 §
Tällä lailla kumotaan öljyjätemaksusta annettu laki (894/1986).
2 §
Tämä laki tulee voimaan päivänä kuuta 20 .
Kumotun lain 7 §:n 1 momenttia sovelletaan kuitenkin 31 päivään joulukuuta 2021.
Main content of the bill (official)
The summary and title were produced with AI on 13 Sep 2026. They are not official documents – check the details in the original bill. The title and summaries are machine translations of the Finnish AI summaries. Speeches and quotations are always shown in their original language.