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Sustainability and responsibility

Our strategic sustainability focus areas promote social, economic and ecological sustainability. We build seamless digital administration of justice and develop the services we provide to the general public, develop the shared, efficient information systems for the authorities, and implement the cloud transformation in our administrative branch. Our operations have both national and global impacts.

Our targets and the 2030 Agenda

We aim to achieve positive impacts through our handprint targets:

  • In the “from idea to production” model, we take into account the customer’s sustainability impact
  • We promote internal security of the EU through the exchange of criminal information
  • We develop the EU’s economic safety through the exchange of EU BRIS information
  • We promote the employment opportunities of students
  • We promote coping at work, work comfort and longer careers in our own work community
  • We boost the sustainability competence and understanding of our staff
  • We support independent exercising of our staff
  • We recognise the harmful impacts of our operations

We control the harmful impacts of our operations with our footprint targets:

  • We boost economic productivity and resource efficiency in consumption and production by the cloud transformation
  • We reduce the amount of paper post and postal deliveries by developing the Legal Register Centre’s e-services
  • We use automation to improve our service processes
  • We make system development more sustainable

Our targets promote the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development:

  • SDG 8 Decent work and economic growth
  • SDG 12 Responsible consumption and production
  • SDG 13 Climate action
  • SDG 16 Peace, justice and strong institutions

Sustainability is one of our values – also in stakeholder cooperation

For us, sustainability as a value means acting in a transparent and trustworthy manner, communicating openly, fairly and in a way that takes into account different needs, safeguarding democracy and fundamental rights, and promoting the Sustainable Development Goals.

We enable a sustainable future together with our stakeholders. We share the sustainability vision of the Ministry of Justice for 2030: Everyone matters, and we are building a just, sustainable and responsible constitutional state and democracy.

Our sustainability reporting (in 2026) is based on a common framework for the central government, which in turn is based on the 2030 Agenda. The sustainability and responsibility work is coordinated by the Legal Register Centre’s sustainability working group, which is also responsible for the preparation of the sustainability report.

The Legal Register Centre’s sustainability and responsibility work is monitored by the management group. Progress towards the goals is managed by the party responsible for the management of our performance, i.e. the Ministry of Justice.

Legal Register Centre’s sustainability actions

Action 8: Decent work and economic growth

Decent work and economic growth

  • We enable hybrid working.
  • We aim to provide workspaces in the cities where our staff lives (the largest population centres).
Action 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions

Peace, justice and strong institutions

  • We improve the smooth administration of justice in Finland through our legislative work, our strategy, our participation in the Government Report on the Administration of Justice, and the digitalisation of the work done by the authorities in the administration of justice and the services available to the general public.
  • We contribute to elections by providing a secure Election Information System.
Action 13: Climate actions

Climate action

  • We have determined the size of our office premises exactly and efficiently based on the number of employees.
  • We sort all the waste produced in our office.
  • We enable remote meetings and events with comprehensive tools.
Action 12: Responsible consumption and production

Responsible consumption and production

  • We have extended our work hardware leasing periods from 3 to 4 years.
  • We do not use any disposable tableware at our office.
  • Our balcony furniture has been sourced from our own administrative branch: they have been made in a prison.
  • We promote the nation-wide centralisation of enforcement activities to the Legal Register Centre.
  • We make use of the shared facilities for the central government for meetings and events.
  • We are responsible for enforcement cooperation between EU Member States on matters relating to proceeds of crime and financial penalties.