National Audit Office of Finland

The Service Centre for Continuous Learning and Employment (SECLE) has not been steered by setting concrete goals, which has undermined the effectiveness of its work. The NAOF recommends that the ministries determine if SECLE should remain a pilot platform or if direct population level impacts are also sought through it.

The achievement of the objectives included in the national Recovery and Resilience Plan has not been monitored and reported on in such a manner that it would be possible to monitor and assess the overall effectiveness of the Plan's implementation. Therefore, the results of the implementation of the Plan cannot be verified, either.

The total impacts of the direct subsidies, compensations and tax subsidies that the state grants to private forestry should be assessed in greater detail. The objectives of promoting wood production and safeguarding biodiversity set for the funding schemes should also be better coordinated. The Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the Ministry of the Environment should develop the allocation, conditions and monitoring of the support schemes so that, as a whole, they serve as many of the objectives set for private forests as possible.

Public finances continue to face challenges. This emphasises the role of a cost-effective central government and transparent use of public funds. The NAOF's audits provide information for example for the planning of several measures set out in the Government Programme.

A customer ordering an information system may be stuck with a particular vendor’s technology, which may limit the possibilities of using the technology, solution or service they have purchased with other operators besides the original vendor. Vendor dependence is not always a negative issue, however. There are also ways of avoiding it.