Everymans' rights (Finland)
Description
Brief description of the instrument and its modus operandi
Pickers can enter and collect berries and mushrooms freely in all Finnish forests.
Which problem the instrument is supposed to solve?
Not enough mushrooms and berries offered for sale (or used in households).
Purpose or main objective / overall goal of the instrument?
To increase the amount of mushrooms and berries offered for sale (or used for food in households).
Side objectives/goals of the instrument?
To increase the volume of mushroom and berry-based industry.
Innovation content or potential of the instrument?
To increase incomes in rural areas.
Which laws and regulations support the implement of this instrument?
Constitutional Law. There is no special law for that, but the right is an old consuetudinary law.
The initiator/promoter of the instrument?
Government agency
How the monitoring is ensured?
No monitoring on the amount of collected berries and mushrooms.
How the compliance is ensured?
No enforcement.
How is the overall performance of the instrument?
No quantitative estimates on the benefits
Brief description of the context for the emergence of the instrument
Don’t know the history of every man’s rights, the rights have been there for ever.
Have any of the items mentioned above changed since the instrument entered into force?
No
Is there any qualitative or quantitative study of the impacts of the instrument?
No
Related to
| Instrument | |
| Year | Tradition - has been for ever? The date "Tradition - has been for ever?" was not understood.
|
|---|---|
| Policy area | Forestry |
| Affected activity | Harvesting/Production |
| Affected actors | Landowner/land manager, Picker/harvester/hunter, Producer/beekeeper |
| Products | Berries, Mushrooms/truffles |
| Promoter/initiator | Public |
| Zone | North East Europe |
| Countries | Finland |
| Regions (NUTS 2) | East Finland |
| Focus on NWFP | Direct |
| Instrument type | Regulatory |
| Legal status | Binding |
| Geographical scope | National |
| Affected activity | Harvesting/Production + |
| Affected actors | Landowner/land manager +, Picker/harvester/hunter + and Producer/beekeeper + |
| Class | Instrument + |
| Countries | Finland + |
| Encodedname | Everymans.27_rights + |
| Focus | Direct + |
| Geographical scope | National + |
| Initiator | Public + |
| Instrument type | Regulatory + |
| Lcname | everymans' rights + |
| Legal status | Binding + |
| Name | Everymans' rights + |
| Policy area | Forestry + |
| Products | Berries + and Mushrooms/truffles + |
| Regions | East Finland + |
| Response set | North Karelia Instrument A2 - Agent 1 Land + |
| Zone | North East Europe + |