Involving the Finnish public in nuclear facility licensing: participatory democracy and industrial bias

Figures & data

Table 1. Actors and course of the Finnish licensing procedure according to legal requirements.

Proponent	Authorities^a	Government	Parliament	Public	Municipal council
EIA programme proposal	Public display of proposal; collecting of  comments; statement on report			Submission of  comments, orally or in writing
Realisation of EIA	Supervision			Participation in events
EIA report submission	Public display of report			Submission of comments, orally or in writing
Public hearing	Public hearing			Participation, comments
	Collecting of comments; statement on EIA report
Application for decision in principle including EIA report and statement		Decision-in-principle	Ratification/rejection of decision-in-principle		Veto right
Investment decision; call for bids
Application for construction license		Construction license		Possibility to appeal to the high administrative court
Application for operation license		Operation license
^aCoordinating authority: Ministry of Employment and the Economy.
Regulatory authority: Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority STUK.