Monitoring plan and fees

The local authority’s control plan guides high-quality, preventive environmental health control. The plan covers health protection, the Food Act and the Tobacco Act, as well as veterinary control.

The municipality must draw up and approve a supervision plan to ensure that supervision is of a high standard and prevents health hazards. The supervision plan must include plans in accordance with the Health Protection Act, the Tobacco Act and the Food Act, as well as a plan for veterinary services. When drawing up the supervision plan, account must be taken of the joint national programme for environmental health and sector-specific plans. 

Keurusselkä Environmental and Health Protection Office, Environmental Health Control Plan with appendices

Under environmental health legislation, the local authority must charge the operator a fee, in accordance with the rates it has approved, for the processing of notifications and applications, for inspections and sampling included in the monitoring plan, and for the analysis of samples. In addition, the municipality must charge a fee for inspections carried out to monitor measures imposed for non-compliance with legislation and regulations. 

Under the Tobacco Act (549/2016), an annual regulatory fee of €500 is levied on each retail outlet for the sale of tobacco.

Under the Food Act (297/2021) and the Health Protection Act (763/1994), a basic annual inspection fee of €150 is charged for premises subject to municipal inspection. The fee is charged for premises covered by planned inspections, with a few exceptions.

Anyone dissatisfied with the charge may request a review of the charge from the local authority in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act.

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