How to identify yourself and grant authorisations

Katso identification can no longer be used in Customs’ e-services as of 7 April 2021. 

You can log into Customs’ e-services using your online banking ID codes, your mobile certificate or your certificate card. Read more: Suomi.fi identification

When you identify yourself online, your transactions with Customs do not usually require you to visit a customs office. You can also use declarations you have submitted earlier as templates for new declarations and browse them in the service to a limited extent for a specific period of time. However, declarants using the Transit Declaration Service must always visit Customs when starting a transit procedure.

The persons who are responsible for the company’s customs transactions must also be authorised for customs transactions in the Suomi.fi e-Authorizations service. A company’s CEO or any other person with the right to sign for the company grants the mandate. Read more: Mandates needed for transactions with Customs and This is how you grant a mandate in practice.

Who cannot yet use Suomi.fi identification and authorisations in Customs’ e-services?

1. Businesses and corporations that do not have any persons authorised to represent them entered in the Finnish Trade Register, the Finnish Business Information System (BIS) or the Finnish Register of Associations 

Such businesses and corporations are, among others:

• general partnerships and limited partnerships that do not have a CEO, a deputy CEO or any persons authorised to represent them individually entered in the Trade Register.
• associations that do not have any persons authorised to represent them individually entered in the Register of Associations.
• corporations, such as municipalities, parishes, educational institutions, foundations, business partnerships, death estates and public authorities, that do not have any representatives entered in the register.
• foreign businesses that do not have any representatives entered in the Trade Register.

They can use the Digital and Population Data Services Agency’s Mandate service provided by officials for registering mandates and for granting mandates independently. You can start the mandate registration process by sending a mandate application and the required appendices to the mandate service provided by officials.

2. Persons who do not have a Finnish personal identity code

Foreign nationals can use the Finnish Authenticator app to access some of Customs e-services; namely, the Intrastat Declaration Service and the My Details service. We will later provide information on the date when the app will be launched in our other services.