More online services for associations
The services provided by the Register of Associations were overhauled in 2019 and development of the online services continued in 2020.
We introduced three new online services: guided start-up process, correction of notifications and notification of preliminary checked rules. The new services make it easier for customers to use the services and for the PRH to process the notifications.
The number of notifications submitted to the Register of Associations remained roughly at the same level as in 2019. However, the number of new associations continued to decrease for the fifth consecutive year.
There are nine categories of registered associations, and culture and sports have been the most popular categories for many years.
Registered new associations
Notices of changes and dissolutions submitted to the Register of Associations
Slight changes in the number of notifications by foundations
There was a slight decrease in the number of notifications and applications submitted to the Register of Foundations compared with 2019. The number of new foundations was at previous year’s level.
Our task is to
ensure that foundations comply with the Foundations Act and their own
charter. The oversight is based on the annual reports submitted by the
foundations. Most of the foundations submitted their annual reports
within the deadline.
We can send a reminder or impose a penalty payment on the management of the foundation if the foundation fails to correct the inadequacies in its annual report or does not submit any annual report. Last year, the PRH sent more reminders than in 2019, while at the same time, there was a decrease in penalty payments.
Registered new foundations
Registered annual reports
We registered more than 10,000 prohibitions of registration
Last
autumn, we entered more than 10,000 prohibitions of registration in the
Trade Register, the Register of Associations and the Register of
Foundations in two weeks.
The spike in the prohibitions resulted from
the Vastaamo data breach, as a result of which personal data of
thousands of individuals were made available online.
For comparison: before the data breach, the PRH had only received between 200 and 350 requests for prohibition each year.
The prohibition of registration means that the PRH does not register the person in question as a person responsible for a company, association or a foundation without the person’s consent.