Suspected negligence

You can report to the National Audit Office if you suspect negligence in the use of the Finnish Transparency Register.

The National Audit Office of Finland (NAOF) acts as the registrar of the Finnish Transparency Register and oversees compliance with the disclosure obligation. You can report to the NAOF if you suspect negligence in relation to the Finnish Transparency Register. You can report negligence if you suspect that

  • an actor is not registered,

  • a registration is incorrect or incomplete,

  • a disclosure of activities is incorrect or incomplete,

  • financial information has been disclosed incorrectly or incompletely, or

  • a deregistration is incorrect or incomplete.

Reporting suspected negligence

The report is drawn up in a free-form manner. To speed up the processing of the report, we hope that the report includes the following information:

  • the name of the organisation suspected of negligence (business ID, if known),

  • what specific disclosure or form of disclosure (registration, disclosure of activities, deregistration) your observation concerns, and

  • as detailed a description of your observation as possible.

Additional information provided as accurately as possible speeds up the processing of the matter. You can also include attachments in the report.

Send the report with any attachments by email (kirjaamo@vtv.fi) or by letter (National Audit Office, P.O. Box 1119, 00101 Helsinki). You can also send email using the secure messaging service, which requires registration (follow the instructions on the page). Use the secure messaging service if you send materials including information that is to be kept secret or that is otherwise sensitive.

The NAOF may not be able to process reports submitted anonymously or under a fictitious name. We therefore recommend that the report includes the submitter's name, email address and telephone number.

The processing of personal data is governed by the Data Protection Act and the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Under section 12 of the Constitution of Finland, documents and recordings in the possession of the authorities are public, unless their publication has for compelling reasons been specifically restricted by an act. Public access to documents is restricted by the secrecy grounds specified in the law, such as the right to privacy, which is protected the Constitution of Finland (section 10, subsection 1).

The NOAF investigates suspected negligence under sections 9 and 10 of the Finnish Transparency Register Act.