A source-led starting point
This index brings together selected sources used in the Åland Islands guides. Some links lead to an individual law; others lead to an official collection, court or regulator. It is a research starting point, not an exhaustive or certified consolidation of every applicable rule.
Read the operative text with amendments, commencement, territorial application and authoritative language in view. A current website or search result does not itself establish that an older downloaded document remains the correct version.
Legislation, courts & regulators
Act on the Autonomy of Åland 1144/1991
Allocates legislative and administrative powers between Åland and Finland and regulates domicile, language and territorial institutions; check later amendments.
Open the legal source ↗Act on the Financial Supervisory Authority: official translation
Sets out supervisory responsibilities, including customer protection across financial, credit, insurance and specified digital-asset services.
Open the legal source ↗Act on the Screening of Foreign Corporate Acquisitions
UNCTAD reproduces legislation governing foreign corporate-acquisition screening, including defence and security-related businesses and ministerial confirmation.
Open the legal source ↗Åland electricity-market application regulation 2024:43
EU official notification identifies Åland's regulation applying national electricity-market instruments; subsequent territorial amendments require checking.
Open the legal source ↗Åland Government: adopted sustainable-building strategy
Identifies Åland's Planning and Building Act, implementing rules, building-code collection and municipal plans as distinct territorial instruments.
Open the legal source ↗Åland Government: land-acquisition rights and permission
Government guidance distinguishes statutory land-acquisition rights from permissions to own or possess land, including relevant conditions.
Open the legal source ↗Åland Government: procurement application of national legislation
Government procurement document identifies Åland's application act bringing Finnish procurement legislation into the territorial framework.
Open the legal source ↗Åland legislation collection, 2024 edition
Government collection contains Åland enactments across devolved subjects; later legislation and commencement must be checked against this dated compilation.
Open the legal source ↗Åland Parliament electricity-market decision 86/2026
Records adoption of an electricity-law amendment in September 2026; publication, scrutiny and commencement must be confirmed before operational reliance.
Open the legal source ↗Åland public-administration data-protection legislation: reform record
Parliamentary comparison identifies the existing public-administration data-protection act and proposed changes; proposals are not proof of commencement.
Open the legal source ↗Arbitration Act 967/1992: Ministry of Justice translation
Distinguishes Finnish-seated arbitration from foreign agreements and awards; the translation's amendment date requires a current-law check.
Open the legal source ↗Contracts Act 228/1929: official enactment and updated-text link
Legislation addresses contract formation, authority and invalidity; the original enactment must be read through the linked current version.
Open the legal source ↗Data Protection Act 1050/2018
National legislation supplements GDPR and addresses supervisory responsibilities; the current Swedish and Finnish versions include subsequent amendments.
Open the legal source ↗District Court of Åland
Official judiciary service record identifies the Mariehamn district court serving Åland within Finland's court system.
Open the legal source ↗FCCA: merger control under the Competition Act
Explains notification of qualifying mergers and the prohibition on implementation before approval under Finnish merger-control rules.
Open the legal source ↗FIN-FSA: Finnish requirements for EEA insurers
Identifies Finnish insurance requirements, including motor and patient insurance legislation and relevant institutional obligations.
Open the legal source ↗Finnish Bar: complaints about legal counsel
Explains complaints to the Disciplinary Board concerning attorneys, public legal aid attorneys and licensed legal counsel.
Open the legal source ↗Finnish courts: Åland administrative jurisdiction
Official court description includes the Åland Administrative Court; the appeal route depends on the authority and applicable competence rules.
Open the legal source ↗Finnish courts: civil cases
Explains civil proceedings in district courts and distinguishes obtaining a judgment from the creditor's subsequent enforcement steps.
Open the legal source ↗Finnish courts: dispute mediation
Explains voluntary court mediation and confirmation of settlements as enforceable decisions in appropriate civil matters.
Open the legal source ↗Finnish courts: summary civil cases
Explains simplified civil claims, allocated judicial districts and transfer to ordinary procedure when a claim is contested.
Open the legal source ↗Finnish healthcare contact point: patient-injury legislation
Identifies the Patient Insurance Act and the Patient Insurance Centre route for qualifying treatment-related injury in Finland.
Open the legal source ↗Finnish Immigration Service: working in Finland
Identifies work-based residence routes and the need to match an application to the intended employment or business activity.
Open the legal source ↗Finnish justice portal: business financial distress
Distinguishes corporate restructuring, early restructuring, bankruptcy and debt adjustment available in business-related financial difficulty.
Open the legal source ↗Finnish justice portal: criminal judgments
Explains delivery of criminal judgments and distinguishes court decisions from enforcement of the resulting sanctions.
Open the legal source ↗Finnish justice portal: divorce
Explains district-court divorce petitions, joint or individual applications and the procedure for obtaining a final decree.
Open the legal source ↗Finnish justice portal: estates after death
Explains estate records, population-register extracts, inventory and administration following a death.
Open the legal source ↗Finnish Patent and Registration Office: responsibilities
PRH registers companies and industrial-property rights, while copyright matters have separate ministerial responsibility.
Open the legal source ↗Finnish Tax Administration: Åland tax border
Explains Åland's exclusion from the EU VAT and excise territory and the taxation of goods crossing its tax border.
Open the legal source ↗Foreign Ministry: export-control services
Explains Finland's national competent-authority role and control of dual-use exports within international and European arrangements.
Open the legal source ↗Limited Liability Companies Act 624/2006
Regulates Finnish private and public limited companies; the English translation identifies the amendments it incorporates.
Open the legal source ↗National Enforcement Authority Finland
Official service description identifies the state authority enforcing judgments and collecting specified directly enforceable public or statutory receivables.
Open the legal source ↗Nordic cooperation: Åland domicile and business rights
Official Nordic guidance explains domicile, land-acquisition permissions and applications for the right to conduct business in Åland.
Open the legal source ↗Nordic cooperation: consumer and tenancy rights in Åland
Explains the local consumer-advice authority and confirms Åland's separate tenancy legislation alongside Finnish consumer-protection rules.
Open the legal source ↗Nordic Council of Ministers: Åland environmental permitting
Official regional study identifies Åland environmental-protection legislation and ÅMHM's permitting role; current amendments require verification.
Open the legal source ↗Presidential Decree 1100/2019 on Åland consumer advice
Assigns the relevant consumer-advice tasks to Åland's Ombudsman Authority under the autonomy arrangements.
Open the legal source ↗Suomi.fi: collective agreements and local bargaining
Explains generally binding collective agreements and obligations affecting employers outside an employers' association.
Open the legal source ↗Traficom: disclosure of AI use
Explains AI transparency duties, provider and deployer roles and Finnish supervisory arrangements for relevant AI-generated or manipulated content.
Open the legal source ↗Traficom: ship registration
Explains merchant-ship registration and distinguishes Traficom's mainland responsibilities from the State Department of Åland's register.
Open the legal source ↗Using the sources
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