How to apply for a responsibility mark and a locality mark

A responsibility mark is a mark intended for articles of precious metal that indicates which company is responsible for the conformity of the product. A responsibility mark is mandatory for all articles of precious metal as is a fineness mark. For more information, see the Marks and markings pages. Applications for a responsibility mark and for a locality mark are submitted to Tukes. Please see our website for instructions on how to apply for responsibility marks and locality marks and the prices for these applications. 

A locality mark is a voluntary mark for articles of precious metal that a municipality can apply for. Anyone can submit an initiative on the matter to the municipality.

Responsibility mark register

Tukes maintains a register of responsibility and locality marks. The register is available in Finnish at Responsibility mark register. A responsibility mark indicates which manufacturer, importer, or retailer is responsible for the article of precious metal. You can use the register to find a party that holds the responsibility mark or the marks that a certain company or goldsmith uses.

Currently, only capital letters are accepted for responsibility marks. The responsibility mark register also contains responsibility marks with combinations of letters in varying sizes and characters, punctuation marks as well as patterns. Such responsibility marks have been registered before 2001.The registration of these marks will remain valid if they have been renewed every three years.

When viewing the responsibility mark register, you can search for information for Finland in its entirety or you can limit a search to a specific area. You can search for locality marks in the same register by selecting the search criteria you want in the search fields.

Marks that are 50 years-old  and older can be found at www.leimat.fi.

Legislation

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