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4.11.2022 | The Guidelines for Impact Assessment in Law Drafting help law drafters plan impact assessments, identify and assess different types of impacts and, where necessary, seek further information.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410853/new-guidelines-for-impact-assessment-to-support-high-quality-law-drafting
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12.5.2022 | On 12 May 2022, Minister of Transport and Communications Timo Harakka opened the first Transport System Forum. In future, such forums will be held regularly to discuss the state of the transport system.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410829/minister-harakka-transport-system-development-is-a-long-term-effort-1742883
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22.9.2022 | A permanent public post of National Cyber Security Director will be established at the Ministry of Transport and Communications. The Government approved a decree amendment concerning the Ministry of Transport and Communications on 22 September 2022. The decree lays down provisions on the qualifications required to fill the public post of National Cyber Security Director.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/new-post-of-national-cyber-security-director-to-be-created-at-the-ministry-of-transport-and-communications
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26.1.2023 | The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health has awarded a total of EUR 373.6 million in grants from the Funding Centre for Social Welfare and Health Organisations (STEA) to healthcare and social welfare organisations for their non-profit activities promoting health and social wellbeing in 2023.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1271139/organisations-receive-eur-373.6-million-in-funding-for-activities-promoting-health-and-social-wellbeing
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20.10.2022 | The Government proposes to compensate low-income households for the sharp rise in the heating prices by raising the amount of the expenditure norm of the heating category and the expenditure norm of the maintenance category for single-family houses by 57 per cent in 2023. A corresponding increase in the amount of acceptable heating costs for housing allowance for pensioners would be laid down by decree.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1271139/government-proposes-to-raise-amounts-of-general-housing-allowance-and-housing-allowance-for-pensioners-in-respect-of-heating-costs
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20.10.2022 | The aim of the proposal is to support low-income households that have difficulties in paying their electricity bills. Financial support for electricity would be available to households that can-not, due to their low income, fully make use of the tax credit for household expenses to deduct their electricity bills.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1271139/government-proposal-on-financial-support-for-electricity-for-households-submitted-to-parliament
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3.3.2022 | The Government approved the proposal for the new Climate Change Act on 3 March. The Act has been reformed to make sure that Finland’s carbon neutrality target for 2035 and other international and EU climate objectives will be reached. In addition to the carbon neutrality target, the Act sets emission reduction targets for 2030, 2040 and 2050. The Act lays down provisions on climate policy plans, and the reform will extend the scope of the Act to the land use sector.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410903/new-climate-change-act-to-be-submitted-to-parliament-carbon-neutrality-target-2035-included-in-the-act-emission-reduction-targets-for-coming-decades-as-well
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12.9.2022 | How do we guide Finland forward in the midst of global uncertainty? Ministries’ futures review provides tools for decision-makers Ministry of Defence Publication date 12.9.2022 12.06 Type: Press release Government Communications Department, Minist...https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/236553176/how-do-we-guide-finland-forward-in-the-midst-of-global-uncertainty-ministries-futures-review-provides-tools-for-decision-makers
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11.3.2022 | Minister of Finance Annika Saarikko will represent Finland in the meeting of EU and euro area finance ministers on 14–15 March.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/10623/finance-ministers-to-discuss-russia-s-invasion-of-ukraine-and-the-related-economic-impact
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30.1.2023 | Näringsminister Mika Lintilä avlägger ett Team Finland-besök till Tanzania och Kenya 30.1–3.2.2023 för att främja företagens export och internationalisering i företagen. Med på resan är en företagsdelegation inom utbildning, digitalisering och miljöteknik.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/sv/-/1410877/minister-lintila-avlagger-ett-team-finland-besok-till-tanzania-och-kenya
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5.5.2022 | A Twinning project in Azerbaijan, led by Statistics Finland, focusing on Finnish data usage and statistical expertise, was very different from any previous Twinning projects. The project was launched remotely in June 2020 in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and it progressed despite the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan and the new virus variants. The closing event of the project on 11 April 2022 in Baku attracted enormous media attention.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/statistics-finland-raises-global-awareness-of-finnish-competence-in-data-usage
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14.1.2022 | In its meeting on Friday 14 January, the Government’s Ministerial Working Group on Coordinating COVID-19 Response discussed the development of the epidemic, closures of food and beverage service businesses and compensation for the costs of restrictive measures. On Friday morning, the ministerial working group received an overview of the epidemiological situation and heard preliminary assessments...https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/ministerial-working-group-on-covid-19-decides-on-compensation-for-costs-of-restrictive-measures-and-on-additional-restrictions-to-be-placed-on-food-and-beverage-service-businesses
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22.12.2021 | Amendments to legislation and decrees will enter into force at the beginning of 2022, of which the most important ones are explained in this release.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410869/changes-in-the-administrative-branch-of-the-ministry-of-the-interior-at-the-turn-of-the-year-1
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1.11.2022 | Minister of the Interior Krista Mikkonen will meet Sweden’s new Minister for Civil Defence Carl-Oskar Bohlin on 1 November in Helsinki. The ministers will discuss cooperation between the two countries in the field of civil preparedness.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410869/minister-mikkonen-to-meet-swedish-minister-for-civil-defence-carl-oskar-bohlin
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8.7.2022 | The stability of working hours in variable hours contracts will be improved in accordance with the Government Programme. In addition, the amendments necessitated by the directive on transparent and predictable working conditions in the EU, which obligate employers to provide employees information on the conditions of employment more extensively and quickly, will be implemented.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410877/position-of-employees-working-variable-hours-to-be-strengthened-improvements-also-to-be-made-to-predictability-and-transparency-of-conditions-of-employment
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12.10.2021 | The Climate Policy Roundtable will hold its 11th meeting on Wednesday 13 October. The meeting will focus on the low-carbon circular economy agreement, which aims to boost the achievement of the objectives set in the Circular Economy Programme completed in spring 2021.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410903/climate-policy-roundtable-meets-to-discuss-agreement-on-low-carbon-circular-economy
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2.2.2023 | The Government submitted the first supplementary budget proposal for 2023 to Parliament on Thursday 2 February.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/10616/government-submits-supplementary-budget-proposal-to-parliament-2
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6.6.2022 | The Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) will meet on 6-10 June 2022. The purpose of the remote meeting is to discuss ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping and to update the initial IMO greenhouse gas strategy. Negotiations will also be held on, for example, matters relating to ships' ballast water, the designat...https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410829/imo-renegotiates-the-reduction-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-international-shipping-1765234
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6.6.2022 | The Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) will meet on 6-10 June 2022. The purpose of the remote meeting is to discuss ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping and to update the initial IMO greenhouse gas strategy. Negotiations will also be held on, for example, matters relating to ships' ballast water, the designat...https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/imo-renegotiates-the-reduction-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-international-shipping
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15.8.2022 | Minister for Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto will meet Estonia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Urmas Reinsalu in Helsinki on 17 August.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/estonian-minister-of-foreign-affairs-urmas-reinsalu-to-visit-finland