*Act on Compensation of Environmental Damage and Environmental Damage Insurance Act and Decree Act on Compensation of Environmental Damage This Act provides that compensation must be paid for a loss that is defined in this Act as environmental damage and that is caused by activities carried out in a certain area and that are a
*Chemicals Act The Chemicals Act 1 aims at protecting health and the environment from the hazards and harm caused by chemicals. This Act includes provisions on both the enforcement of the European Union chemicals legislation and certain national obligations regarding chemicals. This Act is closely linked to EU level regulation of chemicals and it also
*Waste Act and Decree Waste Act The Waste Act 1 aims at preventing the hazard and harm to human health and the environment caused by waste and waste management, reducing the amount and harmfulness of waste, promoting the sustainable use of natural resources, ensuring the functioning of waste management and at preventing littering. This Act
*Water Act The Water Act 1 aims at: promoting, organising and coordinating the use of water resources and the aquatic environment to render it socially, economically and ecologically sustainable and preventing and reducing the adverse effects of water and the use of the aquatic environment and improving the state of water resources and the aquatic
*Climate Change Act The Climate Change Act 1 aims at: establishing a framework for the planning of climate change policy in Finland and the monitoring of its implementation enhancing and coordinating the activities of state authorities in planning measures that are aimed at mitigation of climate change and adaptation to it and at the monitoring
*Forest Act and Decree Forest Act The Forest Act 1 aims at promoting economically, ecologically and socially sustainable management and utilisation of forests to ensure that forests produce a good output in a sustainable way while their biological diversity is being preserved. This Act applies to the management and utilisation of forests that are located
*Land Use and Building Act and Decree Land Use and Building Act The Land Use and Building Act 1 aims at ensuring: that the use of land and water areas and building activities on them create preconditions for a favourable living environment and promote ecologically, economically, socially and culturally sustainable development that everyone has the
*Nature Conservation Act and Decree The Nature Conservation Act 1 aims at: maintaining biological diversity conserving the beauty and scenic values of nature promoting the sustainable use of natural resources and the natural environment promoting awareness and general interest in nature and promoting scientific research. The scope of this Act encompasses nature and landscape conservation
*Act on Environmental Impact Assessment Procedure The Act on Environmental Impact Assessment Procedure 1 aims at promoting the assessment of environmental impact and consistent consideration of this impact in planning and decision-making and simultaneously at increasing the information available to citizens and their opportunities to participate. Environmental impact refers to the direct and indirect effects
*Environmental Protection Act and Decree Environmental Protection Act The Environmental Protection Act 1 aims at: preventing the pollution of the environment and any risk of this, preventing and reducing emissions, eliminating adverse impacts caused by pollution and preventing environmental damage safeguarding a healthy, pleasant, ecologically sustainable and biologically diverse environment, supporting sustainable development and combating
