Request for administrative review of the fee for negligence of notifications to the Finnish Trade Register

Administrative review of decisions on the fee for negligence of notifications to the Finnish Trade Register may be requested.

The Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH) can impose a negligence fee on companies that, despite the PRH’s requests, do not correct deficiencies or errors in their Trade Register details. Read more about the negligence fee.

The PRH will not adjust its negligence fee decision in some situations

Please note that the PRH will not adjust its negligence fee decision on, for example, the following grounds:

• The company is inactive, and it cannot afford to pay the negligence fee.
• The company has corrected the deficiency or error in the Trade Register details according to the PRH’s request only after the PRH’s negligence fee decision.

How to file a request for administrative review

Administrative review must be requested within 30 days from the receipt of the negligence fee decision.

Submit your request in writing either

• on our online form available in Finnish and Swedish or
• as a free-form application, which you can send by post.

The request must include the following details:

• Name and Finnish Business ID of the company
• Decision the request concerns (record number of the decision)
• Grounds for the request; in other words, the reasons why the PRH should not have imposed the negligence fee.

To log in to the online form, you need to have a Finnish personal identity code and either personal internet banking codes, a mobile certificate, or a certificate card.

Go the online form Request for administrative review of the fee for negligence of notifications to the Finnish Trade Register.Open link in a new tab

Alternatively, you can send the request by post to the following address:
PRH
Legal Unit
FI-00091 PRH, Finland

See the legislation for more information

Provisions on the request for administrative review are given in section 36 of the Finnish Trade Register Act. Read more about the Finnish Trade Register Act in Finlex, the Finnish online database for legislative and other judicial information (in FinnishOpen link in a new tab or in SwedishOpen link in a new tab).