The state's regional government will be reformed at the turn of the year 2025‒2026. Regional State Administrative Agenciestasks related to animals and food will be transferred to the Finnish Food Authority. In connection with the change, the site may have flaws in the first few days of January.

Operational steering and control

Non-technical project summaries and retrospective assessments

A non-technical project summary must be produced of each authorised project involving the use of animals to explain why and how the project was carried out. The summaries are published in Finnish in the EU database from 2021 onwards.

We have previously published summaries going back to 2013 (Finnish pages: years 2018-2020). You can email kirjaamo@ruokavirasto.fi  to request the previous information.

All projects involving procedures classified as ‘severe’ must undergo a retrospective assessment. The Project Authorisation Board can determine this assessment also for another reason. The results of retrospective assessments have been published with in non-technical project summaries since 2017 (Finnish pages). 

Page last updated 12/31/2025