Requests for information

Under the Act on the Openness of Government Activities (621/1999), everyone has the right of access to the public documents of the Ministry.

Please make your request as detailed as possible as this will help us to find the document more easily. You should provide any details of the document you may have, e.g. the date or title. If it is not possible to specify the document, the Ministry's Information Services can help you with the use of subject indexes.

Some of our records are kept at the Ministry, while others are stored elsewhere. Please read about the records stored at the Ministry before sending a request for information. This will help you to direct your request to the right authority.

We will try to respond to requests for documents within two weeks. In extensive data searches we may need more time to respond (four weeks).