The projects carried out by the Legal Register Centre (LRC) support the digitalisation of the administrative branch of the Ministry of Justice and help develop services, information systems, operating practices and expertise. Through projects, we implement the LRC’s strategic objectives and respond to changes in our operating environment.
Each year, the LRC’s project portfolio includes approximately 50 projects.
What are the benefits of project-based work?
Project-based work helps ensure that development activities are carried out in a planned and controlled manner. It provides a clear framework for setting objectives, using resources effectively and achieving the intended benefits.
Project-based work supports:
Clear objectives and planning: everyone understands what is being done, why it is being done and according to what schedule.
Efficient use of resources: personnel, time and costs can be planned and monitored more effectively.
Proactive risk management: potential challenges are identified early and addressed in a timely manner.
Clear responsibilities and decision-making: roles, responsibilities and decision-making processes are clearly defined.
Effective collaboration: different stakeholders work together towards common goals.
Quality assurance: requirements management, testing and approval are carried out systematically.
Controlled implementation of change: new operating models and solutions can be introduced in a structured way.
Monitoring benefits: development outcomes and their impacts can be assessed and monitored.
The IT Development Portfolio and Project Model as a foundation for our work
Every project initiated at the LRC goes through the prioritisation, decision-making and governance process of the IT development portfolio.
The purpose of portfolio management and monitoring is to direct development efforts towards the most strategically important initiatives, maintain an overall view of the organisation’s development activities and maximise the benefits generated by investments.
The LRC’s Project Services unit and its Project Management Office (PMO) support and coordinate project implementation and progress. New platforms for small-scale development, such as low-code solutions, also enable more agile delivery of development initiatives.
Key IT development projects in 2025
A major expansion was completed in the AIPA project in 2025 when the component for prosecutors’ criminal cases was introduced alongside case management in district courts, courts of appeal, and the Supreme Court. Preparations also continued for the decommissioning of systems scheduled for retirement.
The foundational solution for AIPA’s e‑services was completed. Digital applications became available first for divorce cases and the dissolution of registered partnerships. During the first two months, approximately 80% of divorce applications were submitted via the digital service channel.
The reform of the election information system continued throughout 2025 with three development teams and nearly 20 developers. In the autumn, extensive trial elections were carried out to verify the functionality of the developed system. The tests proceeded as planned, and the project is advancing toward the production phase.
The new access rights management solution will govern the basic user rights of civil servants within Legal Register Centre and agencies in the administrative sector. Throughout 2025, work progressed on deployments and on phasing out legacy directories. The project will be completed in 2026.
The cloud platform project established year 2025 the technical and operational capabilities required for cloud operations. The cloud competence centre—comprising ORK civil servants and external consultants—stabilised its operations and created harmonised services to support the use of cloud technologies. Migration of development, testing, and production workloads from the data centre to the cloud also continued.
The project introduced a new operating model and platform for rapid and cost‑effective service development across the administrative sector. In 2025, two low‑code implementations were approved for production use: the Information Management Model Tool and the Public Notice Register.
In the website renewal project, a large share of the justice administration’s external websites was migrated to a new technical platform in 2025. All intranets in the administrative sector were also transferred to the new platform.
The renewed Finlex service was launched in February 2025, together with an updated open data service. During the year, the service exceeded one million monthly visits.
The project delivers LRC’s new enforcement system as well as a register of fines and administrative sanctions. In the first phase, in autumn 2025, the functionalities concerning new administrative sanction fees were introduced into production.
At the same time, the provisions on enforcement are being reformed in cooperation with the Ministry of Justice. The first phase of the legislative package entered into force at the beginning of 2026.
As part of the administrative sector’s information architecture development programme, the procurement of the master data management solution was completed, and system testing and operational development have begun.
The tool for managing and maintaining information management models was implemented on the low‑code platform, and 14 information management units have already adopted the tool.
In the Information management systems project, the procurement phase was completed, and development of the shared archiving solution, the Sara system, has started. The project also continued the development of the interfaces for the case management system Hilda.
The project aims to identify, plan and carry out the deletion or migration of existing Lotus Notes data assets into new replacement systems, and to decommission the Lotus Notes servers. In 2025, the project continued mapping and planning activities. It has also contributed to the procurement of the Sara archiving solution.
RRC serves as the controller of the business prohibition register and will in future provide business prohibition information through electronic EU‑wide data exchange as part of the implementation of the EU Directive on the use of digital tools and processes in company law (2019/1151). During 2025, the technical system project progressed, and data exchange between EU and EEA countries will begin in early 2026.
ECRIS‑TCN is an EU‑wide centralised information system for identifying the member states that hold criminal record information on third‑country nationals or stateless persons. RRC acts as Finland’s central authority for this data exchange. System development continued throughout 2025, and the system will be launched in 2026.
RRC adopted an automated decision‑making process for handling payment time applications at the end of 2024, and the operation of the robots stabilised in early 2025. During the year, the payment time application form was further clarified to increase the share of automatically issued decisions to approximately one‑third of all applications.
