If you are moving from Finland to another EU or EEA member state as a professional or a manager of an undertaking, you may need to provide the authorities in that member state with a certificate specifying the type and duration of the professional activities in Finland.

The Finnish National Agency for Education can issue a certificate on the type and duration of professional activities in Finland, in cases involving the activities listed in Annex IV of the Professional Qualifications Directive (2005/36/EC). You must have practiced the professional activities either in a self-employed or an employed capacity or as a manager of an undertaking.

The Finnish National Agency for Education drafts the certificate based on the employment certificates you submit. If you have been a self-employed professional, a trade register extract and accountant's certificate involving the professional activity in question must be presented. The certificate is issued in Finnish or in Swedish.

Certificates regarding professional activities in the lift and electrical installations sector in Finland are issued by a qualification assessment body (SETI Oy).


 

You can apply for the certificate by submitting a signed, free-form application, accompanied by the necessary appendices, to the Finnish National Agency for Education (Opetushallitus/ Registry office, P.O. Box 380, 00531 Helsinki, Finland).
The application must include, at least, the following information:

1.    What the application pertains to (e.g. a certificate issued by the Finnish National Agency for Education regarding the type and duration of professional activities in Finland)
2.    The applicant's complete personal and contact information (name, date of birth, Finnish personal identity code, address, phone number and email)
3.    Detailed information on all the desired professional activities to be included in the certificate:

  • type of the professional activities
  • start and end date of the professional activities
  • company in which you pursued the professional activities
  • whether you pursued the professional activities in a self-employed capacity, in an employed capacity, or as a manager of an undertaking
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Please append to your application
•    a copy of a document proving your identity 
•    officially certified copies of employment certificates concerning the professional activities specified on the application. If you have been self-employed, please present a trade register extract and accountant's certificate involving the activity in question. 
 

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The fee for a certificate is €147 (applications starting from 1.1.2024). The certificate and invoice will be posted to you.

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