Finland


Applicable Law

Bankruptcy Act
Restructuring of Enterprises Act
Source: Finlex

English version
Bankruptcy Act as at 01 September 2004 (not updated)
Restructuring of Enterprises Act as at 01 June 2007 (not updated)

Implementation of the Directive (EU) 2019/1023

Implementation texts
Government proposal (HE 238/2021 vp)
Report of the Commerce Committee (TaVL 17/2022 vp)
Report of the Legal Affairs Committee (LaVM 4/2022 vp)
Parliamentary reply (EV 51/2022 vp)

Additional resource
How Finland has implemented Directive (EU) 2019/1023 (as part of the Joint Project between INSOL Europe and LexisPSL on the implementation analysis of the Directive (EU) 2019/1023 in the EU Member States - as at 21/06/2022)

We are grateful to Jan LILIUS from Hannes Snellman Attorneys Ltd and INSOL Europe Country Coordinator assisted by Ilmari ESKOLA for sharing this information.
Update: April 2023


 
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