Website of Finland’s environmental administration

Permits and obligations

Guidelines, forms and document templates for transfrontier shipments of waste

Instructions, forms and document templates on transfrontier shipments of waste are compiled on this page. The page also contains instructions and forms for exporting used products.

Instructions

Instructions for using the Finnish TFS system
Instructions for electronic service - waste shipment permit (in Finnish) (pdf, 428 KB) User instructions for the waste shipment system – annual reporting on certain waste exports in accordance with Section 117c of the Waste Act (in Finnish) (pdf, 351 KB)
Waste shipment notification
Route description guide (in Finnish) (pdf, 330 KB) Instructions for sending and receiving waste batches (in Finnish and English) (pdf, 69 KB)
So-called green waste

Green waste shipments guideline (Nordic Council of Ministers)

Correspondents' Guidelines No 10, green listed waste (pdf, 673 KB)
Used electrical and electronic equipment
Export of used electrical and electronic equipment – instructions for exporters (in Finnish) (pdf, 632 KB)
Used vehicles, automotive spare parts and used tyres
Export of used vehicles from Finland (in Finnish) (pdf, 246 KB) Export of used automotive spare parts from Finland (in Finnish) (pdf, 124 KB) Correspondents' Guidelines No 9 - Shipments of Waste Vehicles (pdf, 76 KB) 'Vehicle is repairable' Certification (Finnish and English) (docx, 27 KB) Export of used tyres from Finland (in Finnish) (pdf, 296 KB)
Used lead-acid batteries and catalysts
Export of used lead-acid batteries (in Finnish) (pdf, 57 KB) Export of used vehicle catalysts (in Finnish) (pdf, 45 KB)
Classification of plastic waste

Correspondents' Guideline No 12: Classification of plastic waste (European Commission)

Forms and document templates

Waste shipment subject to a permit

Notification and movement documents

Contract templates

Financial guarantee templates

 Certificate of subsequent waste treatment

So-called green shipments

Pre-consent of facilities

Publications related to waste shipments

Green-listed waste (GLW) exports from the Nordic countries (Nordic Council of Ministers)

Shipments of green-listed waste: a Nordic survey (Nordic Council of Ministers)

Requirements for the management of waste containing persistent organic pollutants (Environmental Administration Guidelines 4/2016, in Finnish) – Chapter 6: Export and import of waste containing POPs

More information

Export and import of used products

Shipping green list waste

Applying for waste shipment permit

Dispatch, reception and transport of waste batches

Waste shipments correspondents' guidelines (European Commission)

Collection, transport and brokerage of waste within Finland

Obligations of the waste carrier and broker placed outside Finland

Published 2.3.2023 / Updated 3.9.2025

Publisher

Finnish Environment Institute (Syke)