Notification of food-related activities

Submit a notification via the ilppa notification e-service of the Finnish Food Authority.

You can submit the notification also in writing to the food control authority of the municipality in which you are located.

Include the following details in the notification:

• the name and contact details of your company and your municipality of residence if you have a mobile food premises or a virtual room
• your company’s business ID, or if you do not have one, your personal identity code
• the name and contact details of your food premises or virtual room
• the visiting address and municipality of your food premises, if it is not a mobile food premises
• description of the operation and its estimated extent
• the estimated time of starting the operation
• a description of your self-monitoring system.

The authority will notify you when it has entered your notification in its register.

A prerequisite for starting operations is that the food-related activities fulfil the requirements of the Food Act. For example, the food-related activities must not cause danger to human health.

In addition to reporting the start of operations, the operator must notify the relevant authority if

• the operation changes
• the operation is suspended
• the operation is terminated
• the operator changes.

If the operator is established in another state in the European Economic Area and is operating temporarily in Finland, the operator does not need to submit a notification in Finland if it has already submitted a notification of food-related activities in its home country. Temporary activity means less than six months of activity per year.