Finland’s market surveillance strategy 2026–2029

Each Member State must draw up a national market surveillance strategy at least every four years. The national strategy shall promote a consistent, comprehensive and integrated approach to market surveillance within the territory of the Member State.

Finland’s market surveillance strategy 2026-2029 includes goals and measures to implement effective and uniform national market surveillance, as well as cooperation between the Member States. The strategy sets out the market surveillance authorities’ general policies, key priorities and strategic choices from which the objectives of market surveillance can be derived and the surveillance resources available can be allocated as efficiently and appropriately as possible.

The vision of Finland’s market surveillance is:

Our goal is a market environment where all user groups can rely on product compliance and where companies operate under fair and equitable conditions of competition.

The mission of Finland’s market surveillance is:

We perform market surveillance to ensure the products on the market comply with the statutory requirements. We thus protect people and the environment from the risks from non-compliant products and create fair and equal conditions for competition between companies.

Values guiding the work of the Finnish market surveillance authorities are:

Expert, reliable and socially value-adding market surveillance.

Priorities of Finland’s market surveillance are:

Effective surveillance – the right targeting of measures at the right time
Sustainable development and technological transformation – surveillance in a changing product world
Use and production of information – more effective market surveillance with information
Digital commerce – effective surveillance in the digital market

Finland’s market surveillance strategy 2026–2029 (pdf, 3,8 Mb)