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	MUNICIPALITIES OF FINLAND FACTS AND INFORMATION
		The municipalities (''kunta'' in Finnish, ''kommun'' in Swedish) represent the local level of administration in Finland and act as the fundamental administrative units of the country.
		Municipalities have the right to levy a flat percentual tax, which is between 16 and 20 percent, and compromises two thirds of the total tax burden.
		The size of the council is proportional to the population, the extremes being 9 in Sottunga and 85 in Helsinki.
	www.witwib.com /municipalities_of_Finland (464 words)

	Pargas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pargas (Parainen in Finnish) is a municipality of Finland.
		It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Finland Proper region.
		The municipality has a population of 12,001 (2003) and covers an area of 272.79 km² of which 1.19 km² is water.
	www.free-download-soft.com /info/database-management.html (85 words)

	Municipalities of Finland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Municipal managers (kaupunginjohtaja, stadsdirektör for cities, kunnanjohtaja, kommunsdirektör for other municipalities) are civil servants named by the council.
		As of 2005, there are 432 municipalities in Finland.
		From 1995 onwards only 'municipality' is recognized by law and any municipality is allowed to call itself a city if it so wishes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Municipalities_of_Finland (498 words)

	Turku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Located at the mouth of the Aura river in the southwest of the country, it is the capital city of both the region of Finland Proper and the province of Western Finland, as well as being the centre of the country's third largest urban area, with around 300,000 inhabitants.
		The population of the city was around six thousand, and in the 1620s, it became the residence of the Governor-General of Finland, thus affirming its status as the capital of Finland.
		Turku is the central economic hub of southwestern Finland, and the capital of the Turku economic district.
	www.turku.info (3047 words)

	Finland Proper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Finland Proper (Varsinais-Suomi in Finnish, Egentliga Finland in Swedish) is a region in south-western Finland.
		It borders to the regions of Satakunta, Tavastia Proper and Uusimaa.
		The region uses the coat of arms of the historical province of Finland Proper.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Finland_Proper (109 words)

	FINLAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A municipality is obliged to organize comprehensive school education for all children living within its borders or to ensure that children of school age can receive comparable teaching in some other manner.
		The municipality (or the school) decides what optional subjects are offered, and thus the option refers to the students’ right to choose the subjects which they prefer to study.
		Municipalities and individual schools are under obligation to arrange education for all students in need of special support.
	www.ibe.unesco.org /International/Databanks/Dossiers/pfinland.htm (11833 words)

	LIETO FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lieto (), or ''Lundo'' in Swedish, is a municipality of Finland.
		It is located in the province of Western_Finland and is part of the Finland Proper region.
		The municipality has a population of 15,002 (2004-12-31) and covers an area of 200.46 kmÂ² of which 1.27 kmÂ² is water.
	www.witwib.com /Lieto (60 words)

	Parliament of Finland
		Although the success of Europe and Finland was chosen as the point of departure for the Committee's report, that does not amount to adopting the position that the future is to be examined only in the light of economic success.
		A belief that has been firmly held in Finland throughout the 20th century is that economic and social development features a succession of recessions and booms, and that each boom redresses the damage that the preceding recession has caused.
		In Finland, centrally-managed public activities are divided between budget-linked core state tasks, services which are mainly taken care of by municipalities, and extensive commercial operations on the terms of the market (state-owned businesses, companies and funds).
	www.eduskunta.fi /efakta/vk/tuv/fcrep1.htm (21229 words)

	Swedish in Finland — Virtual Finland
		The area of Finland settled by Swedish speakers was geographically dispersed and limited to coastal areas.
		In 1863, Finnish was given an equal position with Swedish as the official language of Finland, and a legislative reform in 1906 gave Finnish a position in practice which corresponded to the dominant numbers of Finnish speakers in the country’s population.
		Municipalities in Finland can be unilingual (in either Finnish or Swedish) or bilingual, but a person can officially have only one first language.
	virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/finnswedes.html (2827 words)

	Municipalities of Finland
		The Municipalities (Kunta in Finnish, Kommun in Swedish) represent the local level of self government in Finland and also act as the basic regional administrative units of the country.
		Until 1977 municipalities were divided into towns (kaupunki/stad), market towns (kauppala/köping) and country municipalities (maalaiskunta/landskommun).
		From 1995 onwards only "municipality" is recogniced by law and any municipality that wishes so can call itself a town.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/municipalities_of_finland (178 words)

	Answers to the questions about Finnish National Report
		In plans prepared for nuclear power plant accidents, it is assumed that when rescue operations are initiated, the municipal chief fire officer of the area of location of the power plant takes charge of the rescue management and initiates the necessary notification, alerting and rescue operations.
		In Finland criteria for measures taken to protect the public are based on the recommendations of IAEA (Intervention Criteria in a Nuclear or Radiation Emergency, Safety Series No. 109, IAEA, Vienna, 1994).
		Seismicity in Finland is so low that even with the conservative assumption that each initiating event leads to core damage, the median CDF is about 4.4E-7 per year.
	www.stuk.fi /english/convention/answers.html (16694 words)

	Independent Living and Personal Assistant Services in Finland
		As of 1992 municipalities in Finland are required to provide sufficient residential services to allow people with disabilities to live in their homes.
		There are many reasons including lack of information and proper standardization, paucity of enterprises in the area and insufficient interest on the part of large enterprises.
		In Finland in contrast to the past, young people with disabilities are no longer being forced onto a pension system but are given corresponding amounts of money for rehabilitation.
	www.disabilityworld.org /01-02_01/il/finland.htm (901 words)

	Regions of Finland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Finland is divided into 20 regions (maakunta/landskap in Finnish/Swedish).
		The regions are governed by Regional Councils, which serve as forums of cooperation for the municipalities of a region.
		¹ The role that the Regional Councils serve on Mainland Finland are on the Åland Islands handled by the autonomous Government of Åland.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/R/Regions-of-Finland.htm (165 words)

	Municipalities of Finland -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A municipality is governed by an elected council (valtuusto), which is legally autonomous and answers only to the voters.
		Municipal managers (kunnanjohtaja or kaupunginjohtaja) are (A public official who is a member of the civil service) civil servants named by the council.
		Municipalities were originally (A local church community) parishes.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mu/municipalities_of_finland.htm (527 words)

	Nordic FAQ - 4 of 7 - FINLAND
		Finland shares a common border in the north with Norway, in the east a long border (1,269 km) with Russia, on the south it is bordered by the Gulf of Finland, and on the west by the Gulf of Bothnia and Sweden.
		Most of Finland is made of ancient granite bedrock, which has been shaped and fractured by numerous ice ages, the marks of which can be seen e.g in the complex lake system, the equally complex archipelagos and the huge boulders scattered all over the country.
		SW Finland appears to have been allied with central Sweden already in the Viking age, so it has been hypothesized that the campaign was a punitive expedition against an ally that had become unreliable, perhaps because of the influence of Greek Orthodox missionaries.
	www.cs.uu.nl /wais/html/na-dir/nordic-faq/part4_FINLAND.html (16949 words)

	Country Survey: Finland
		The bottom layer consists of municipalities or communes (kunta), total number of which are 452 (population size ranges from 126 to 546,317 inhabitants).
		The decree stated that from thereon the territory of each rural church parish was to be established as a municipality with its general meeting and elected officials (the towns and cities had their own historical privileges and administrative system).
		Administrative municipalities and historical counties (as judicial units), however, are of much older origin, and they date back maybe to the pre-historic period (prior to the thirteenth century).
	www.geog.port.ac.uk /hist-bound/country_rep/finland.htm (3792 words)

	ICL - Finland - Constitution
		However, when considering matters relating to Finland's international relations or European Union affairs, the members of a Committee shall observe the level of confidentiality considered necessary by the Foreign Affairs Committee or the Grand Committee after having heard the opinion of the Government.
		Each Ministry, within its proper purview, is responsible for the preparation of matters to be considered by the Government and for the appropriate functioning of administration.
		For the purpose of supervising the operations of the Bank of Finland, the Parliament elects its governors.
	www.oefre.unibe.ch /law/icl/fi00000_.html (12071 words)

	State Party Report - Finland
		In its instrument of acceptance Finland declared that it shall apply a total of 59 provisions of Part III to the Sami language as a regional minority language and a total of 65 provisions to the Swedish language as a less widely used official language in Finland.
		Finland has not ratified the ILO Convention No. 169 concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries, as the relevant Finnish legislation is not in conformity with the provisions of the Convention, especially with respect to the land rights of the Sami people.
		Of Finland's 452 municipalities, 128 have concluded an agreement on the reception of refugees.
	www.hri.ca /fortherecord1999/documentation/tbodies/cerd-c-320-add2.htm (16383 words)

	National Labour Law Profile: Republic of Finland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		According to the Constitution, Finland is not organised as a Federal State. However, the Province of Aland (comprising a group of islands between Finland and Sweden) enjoys extensive self-government.
		As Finland has joined the European Union it is bound by European Community Law, namely the so-called primary legislation made up of the Treaties establishing the European Communities, and by secondary legislation based on the Treaties, which implies a variety of procedures defined in different articles thereof.
		Century, Finland was ruled by Sweden, which explains that Civil Law in Finland is to a large extent influenced by Swedish Law.
	www.ilo.org /public/english/dialogue/ifpdial/ll/fin.htm (3264 words)

	Provinces of Finland
		Traditionally Finland has been divides into nine 'historical provinces' (in Finnish 'historiallinen maakunta', Swedish 'historiska landskap').
		In 1995 the old system "Finland 12 provinces (lääni, län, 400+ municipalities" was replaced with a new one: "Finland 6 provinces (lääni, län), 20 regions/counties (maakunta, landskap), 400+ municipalities".
		Editor's note: According to Finnish heraldists, the heraldry of the newer regions (maakunta/landskap) shall be treated along the lines of municipal heraldry (because they are legally municipal entities), so pages for them are linked from the page for Finnish municipal flags rather than the page for Finnish provincial flags.
	flagspot.net /flags/fi-prov.html (286 words)

	Oikeusministeriö - Justitieministeriet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		There are specific provisions that apply to the right to attend Parliamentary plenary sessions, meetings of municipal councils and other municipal bodies, court hearings and meetings of ecclesiastical bodies.
		A person whose standing to appeal a decision is based on membership of a municipality or any other corporation shall have access to the decision by virtue of this section only in so far as it is in the public domain.
		The authorities shall promote the openness of their activities and, where necessary for this purpose, produce guides, statistics and other publications, as well as information materials on their services and practices, as well as on the social conditions and developments in their field of competence.
	www.om.fi /1184.htm (5177 words)

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