# Finland

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Finland
- **ISO code**: FI
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Europe / Northern Europe

## In brief

Finland has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. EU AI Act applies; national implementing act proposed; AI programmes since 2017 as policy. Regulators include Liikenne- ja viestintävirasto Traficom, Tietosuojavaltuutetun toimisto (Data Protection Ombudsman). Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Finland was among the first countries with a national AI programme ("Finland's Age of Artificial Intelligence", 2017) and followed with the AI 4.0 programme for industry. It applies the EU AI Act; the government proposed the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency (Traficom) as the coordinating market-surveillance authority, with the Data Protection Ombudsman and sector authorities in their fields. The Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence and the free "Elements of AI" course are internationally known public-education initiatives.

## Regulatory status

EU AI Act applies; national implementing act proposed; AI programmes since 2017 as policy.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: Finland's Age of Artificial Intelligence (2017).

## Current priorities

AI Act implementation act and Traficom set-up, industrial AI (AI 4.0), public-sector AI and data spaces.

## Regulators

- Liikenne- ja viestintävirasto Traficom — Proposed coordinating market-surveillance authority for the AI Act — https://www.traficom.fi/en
- Tietosuojavaltuutetun toimisto (Data Protection Ombudsman) — Data-protection authority — https://tietosuoja.fi/en/home

## How to use this profile

- Start from the EU AI Act record for obligations; use this page for the national authorities, penalties and strategy.
- Open the official source on each instrument before relying on any date or obligation.
- Check national data-protection, employment and consumer law that applies to AI systems regardless of the AI Act.

## Official sources

- Finland's Age of Artificial Intelligence: turning Finland into a leading country in the application of AI — Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment — https://julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi/handle/10024/160391

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **Finland's Age of Artificial Intelligence: Turning Finland into a leading country in the application of AI (objective and recommendations for measures)** — National strategy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/finland-age-of-artificial-intelligence-2017
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/finland-age-of-artificial-intelligence-2017.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/finland
- **Official source**: https://julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi/handle/10024/160391
- **Source document**: Finland's Age of Artificial Intelligence: turning Finland into a leading country in the application of AI
- **Published by**: Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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