In a government resolution on social responsibility approved on 22 November 2012, the Government decided that Finland would draft a national action plan for the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights...A background memo...covers Finnish legislation, constitutional provisions and international agreements, as well as other procedures and practices by authorities in relation to the UN principles. The objective of these proposals made by the working group is to initiate procedures that will place more of an emphasis on the connection between business and human rights and, in this way, help businesses improve the way they take the human rights impacts of their activities into account...The working group has drawn up an action plan for improving the securing of human rights in connection to business. The action plan has been drawn up in a way that facilitates the realisation of listed actions in the next few years, but also provides a foundation to which new actions may be added