We [Ministry for Economic Affairs and Employment] started off by producing materials on how to set responsibility requirements for supply chains... Then we.. wr[o]te a comprehensive guide, where we would describe how social criteria can be taken into account at different stages of the procurement process. With this guidance we also wanted to highlight the fact that the possibilities we presented are real and feasible... [W]e found practical examples from pioneering Finnish procurement units who had actually already had a go at these.

Finnish procurement units have, for example, included contract clauses on compliance with labour rights and human rights during the contract period...

This year we reached a new milestone when we published a revised version of the guidance, as part of our national implementation the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. The revised guidance offers new possibilities and requirements set by the new procurement legislation. For example there are new mandatory exclusion criteria, which include certain economic and labour offences, trafficking in human beings, and participation in the activities of an organised criminal group.