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Finland's Customs has issued a press release relating to a criminal investigation into the alleged export of 135 trucks and 29 trailers to Russia from Finland in 2022 and 2023.

The company received an order from a Russian customer for non-prohibited goods. The products then became sanctioned leading to a dispute as to whether the contract should be performed.

The European Union has imposed its largest single expansion of sanctions against Russia since February 2022, adding 1,569 new designations targeting companies and executives in Russia's military-industrial complex. These measures affect businesses with combined annual revenues exceeding EUR 20 billion and over 250,000 employees across sectors including electronics, semiconductors, telecommunications, and aviation.

The European Union’s 20th Russia sanctions package entered into force on 24 April 2026. For businesses, its significance extends well beyond the new listings and export codes.

The new act on the export control of dual-use items entered into force on 15 September 2024. National export control legislation on dual-use items supplements and supports the application...

In April, the European Parliament and Council adopted a Directive on sanctions violations. The Directive aims to harmonise the definitions of criminal offences and penalties related to violating EU sanctions.

Sanctions, negative effective measures, which has been set to Russia are to be updated, expanded as well as practices are to become more precise.

On 20 May 2025, the European Union (EU) adopted its anticipated 17th package of sanctions against Russia.

Vuodenvaihteen molemmin puolin käydyt työehtosopimusneuvottelut ja niihin liittyvät työtaistelut ovat jälleen nostaneet esiin kysymyksiä työrauhalainsäädäntömme ajantasaisuudesta...

The Finnish Sale of Goods Act (355/1987) is applicable when both of the parties to a contract of sale are Finnish, or when in the contract it is expressly stated that the contract is to be governed by Finnish law.

The partial reform of the Finnish Act on Preventing Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing, which has been in the works since January 2022...

On 24 February 2022, the whole world was shocked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

It is possible that quantum computing will represent one of the most significant technological shifts of the 21st century. Unlike classical computers, which process information in binary bits (0s and 1s), quantum computers harness the principles of quantum mechanics such as superposition, entanglement, and interference to process information in “qubits”.

In 2023, Finnish courts saw a significant increase in regulation offence cases, particularly related to violations of EU sanctions against Russia.

The war in Ukraine has affected also Finnish businesses in many ways. What kind of legal issues has the war brought to the in-house legal departments and to the General Counsels' desks?

The new Finnish regulation on sanctions violations entered into force on 20 May 2025. The new statutory definitions under the Finnish Criminal Code place higher liability on companies with respect to sanctions compliance.

As an update to our previous post on the 900 or so sanctions investigations started by Finnish Customs since the start of 2022, we can provide a more detailed breakdown of those figures.