Instructions for law drafting 

The Government applies instructions and recommendations, which aim at harmonising law drafting practices in different Ministries and ensuring that quality requirements for legislation are met. The following instructions are available in English. Further law drafting instructions can be found in Finnish on the Finnish language web page.

The following instructions are available in English:

• Legislative Drafting Process Guide  (Finlex)

• Guidelines for Impact Assessment in Law Drafting

• Government's common principles for the monitoring and ex post evaluation of legislation 

• Government Communications Guidelines

The instructions which are available in Finnish can be found on the Finnish web page