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Notification of primary production premises

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The primary producer must submit a written notification to the municipal food control authority of the primary production premises and operations. A notification is not needed in case the authority is notified of the primary production premises by another authority.

Primary production means the production, rearing or growing of primary products. It includes harvesting, milking and all stages of farmed animal production prior to slaughter.

The following are examples of primary production:

milk and egg production
keeping beef cattle
fishing and fish farming
farming vegetables, fruits, grains and mushrooms
honey production.

Primary production also includes the transport, storage and handling of the products at the place of production so that the nature of the products is not significantly changed. In addition, it includes the transport of live animals and other products of primary production, except for transporting milk, to the next handling place in the food supply chain.

Notification of primary production is not required for hunting or picking wild plants and mushrooms even if the purpose would be to sell these products for consumption.

Submit a written notification of the primary production premises and activities in the Rovaniemi, Ranua, Pello and Ylitornio region to the Rovakaari environmental health care.

A reindeer owner’s co-operative can submit a notification of reindeer herding on your behalf.

You do not need to submit a separate notification for transporting primary production goods you have produced yourself away from the primary production premises. However, if you are a food business operator transporting primary products to the first food premises, submit a notification of the transport of primary products.

Please note that primary production does not include transport of milk from the primary production premises, further processing primary production goods or slaughter of animals. In addition, the production of cheese or jam, drying herbs, peeling vegetables, cleaning fish on shore or filleting fish are not primary production activities, but activities of food premises.

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Submit a written notification for the municipal food control authority about your place of primary production and your production operations there.

In the notification, include

your name and contact information
your business ID, holding code or customer code or, if these are not available, your personal identity code
the address and name of the place of primary production and its visiting address and municipality
information on the nature and scale of operations
the estimated start of operations.

Submit a primary production notification to the Rovakaari environmental health care primarily with a written form. You can use the same form to submit a notification of the transport of primary production goods. You can also deliver the form to the Rovakaari environmental health care by email.

To who and with what terms

The operator must ensure that the place of primary production, the production carried on there and the products of primary production produced meet legal requirements. Product safety must not be compromised.

The operator must notify about changes to the primary production, suspension of the production for more than a year or termination of the production. The food control authority must be notified by latest when the changes enter into force.

Background and legislation

https://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/alkup/2021/20210297
https://www.finlex.fi/fi/lainsaadanto/2021/297

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fish production, food production, farming, agricultural products, agricultural production, food sector, food control and monitoring, crop cultivation, bee culture (livelihoods), horticultural production, fishing

Notification of primary production premises

Information about service

User instructions

To who and with what terms

Background and legislation

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E-services 1

Feedback service: Environment, environmental health and veterinary therapeutics

Phone services 1

Customer service telephone for environmental health care

Forms 1

Notification of primary production premises or transport of primary production products

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Environmental health

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Environmental control office

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