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.
Before commencing operations, submit a notification in accordance with the Food Act primarily through the ilppa online service (see e-services). Attach at least a floor plan to your food-related activities report.
If you submit the notification in another way than in the ilppa online service, deliver the appendices separately to environmental health care by email, by post or by bringing them to the Rovakaari environmental health care’s office.
Case process:
1 The notification arrives at environmental health care, where a supervisor reads it. The supervisor checks that the information is sufficient to register the item and asks you for more information if necessary.
2 The activities you report are registered and the supervisory unit sends a certificate of processing the notification which is subject to a fee. If you submitted the notification in ilppa, you will see the details of the location your notification concerns and any changes made to it after it is processed. You will also see details of the activities you have previously reported.
You should also primarily use the ilppa online service to submit a notification if the activities change essentially or end. You can also submit the notification by email or by post to the Rovakaari environmental health care. No fee is charged for processing notifications of interruption or cessation of activitie, nor will you receive a separate certificate for their processing.