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Legislation

Up-to-date legislation and the Statute Book of Finland

Updated legislation

Updated legislative texts incorporating amendments to an act or decree

Statute Book of Finland

Statutes published in the Statute Book of Finland as text and as PDF facsimiles

Amendments

Information on legislative amendments and on the entry into force and repeal of acts and decrees

Corrections

Corrections to the Statute Book and the Finnish Treaty Series published under section 17a of the Act on the Statutes of Finland (188/2000)

Translations of statutes

Unofficial translations of statutes into foreign languages

Statutes in Sámi

Translations of statutes into Sámi languages from 1991 onward

Case law

Decisions of Finnish courts over several decades in Finnish and in Swedish

Supreme Administrative Court

Decisions in the Supreme Administrative Court Yearbook, other published decisions and an archive of brief explanations of decisions.

Supreme Court:

Precedents of the Supreme Court, plus separate databases for non-precedents and leaves to appeal.

Courts of appeal

Judgements of courts of appeal in summary judgements and, since 2004, in long texts.

Administrative courts

Judgements of administrative courts (and earlier county administrative courts) since 1981.

Market Court

Decisions of Market Court since 1979.

Labour Court

Judgements and opinions of the Labour Court since 1970.

Insurance Court

A selection of Insurance Court judgements on all categories of cases since 1961.

Case Law in Literature

The Case Law in Literature collection provides references to Finnish and European court decisions in Finnish legal literature since 1926

Authorities

Regulations and decisions of public authorities and generally applicable collective agreements

Collections of regulations

Decrees of ministries, and regulations, instructions, decisions and communications of other central government authorities published in the collections of regulations

Chancellor of Justice

Decisions of the Chancellor of Justice and the Deputy Chancellor of Justice

Data Protection Ombudsman

Decisions of the Data Protection Ombudsman on the interpretation of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, the Act on the Processing of Personal Data in Criminal Matters and the Personal Data Act

Collective agreements

Generally applicable collective agreements and decisions of the Committee for Confirming the General Applicability of Collective Agreements

Treaties

Agreements concluded with foreign states and international organisations and a reference database of treaties

Collection of treaties

Treaties, acts bringing treaties into force, ministry announcements, and the digital Finnish Treaty Series from 1999 onward

Up-to-date income tax treaties

Up-to-date key treaties on income taxes, and synthesised texts of treaties on income taxes and the Multilateral Instrument

Treaty Reference Database

Treaty information and link to the text

Government proposals

Government proposals as text and as PDF files from 1992 onward in Finnish and Swedish. Includes a list of pending legislative proposals submitted to Parliament

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