Administrative duties shifted to the Finnish Food Authority
What is changing and where can I find information?
The duties of environmental health care in the administrative branch of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Finland will be transferred from Regional State Administrative Agencies to the Finnish Food Authority as of 1 January 2026.
The tasks of the Regional State Administrative Agencies concerning animal health and welfare and food will be centralised to the Finnish Food Authority. For more information, see press release 17th of December 2025.
The pages related to certain animal and food-related notifications, permits and services can be found on the ruokavirasto.fi website in the future. We will compile links to those pages on this page by the end of the year.
Webpages:
- Animal transport authorisations (in Finnish)
- Notification of transporting animals to/from Finland
- Animal welfare violations
- Animal breeding
- Killing of animals
- Broiler stocking density notices
- Notification of the keeping of animals
- Notification of an animal competition
- Wildlife hospitals
- Wild animal farming
- Outdoor cattle grazing
- Movement of animals to EU Member States and TRACES NT
- Animal keeping
- Animal exhibits and displays
- Voluntary animal health control (in Finnish)
- Notification of professional or large-scale animal keeping concerning pets and hobby animals
- Reporting contagious animal diseases
- Animal disease emergency duty
- Animal trade notices (in Finnish)
- Notification of a petting zoo
- Keeping pigs and poultry outdoors (in Finnish)
- Animal welfare
- Livestock marking and registration
- Veterinary pharmacotherapy
- EU livestock farm subsidies and cross-compliance controls on agricultural subsidies (In Finnish)
- Veterinary medical care (in Finnish)
- Private veterinary medical care (in Finnish)
- Private veterinary care provision
- Laboratory animals
- Reindeer husbandry (in Finnish)
- Food control
There may still be out-of-date mentions on the website in the early part of the year. We will update the website as soon as possible.