Border Checks

West Finland Coast Guard District is responsible of border checks at border crossing points within its operational area. In the operational area of West Finland Coast Guard District, border checks are mainly performed in airports, but occasionally border checks are also being performed in ports.

Border Crossing Points

The international border crossing points in the operational area:

• Mariehamn, Turku, Pori, Vaasa, Kruunupyy, Oulu, Kemi-Tornio, Tampere-Pirkkala and Jyväskylä airports
• ports (see for list of ports 901/2006, in Finnish and Swedish only)

Border checks are carried out only when travelled outside the Schengen area, therefore border checks do not concern people travelling within the Schengen area. Out of all border crossing points, only in the Tampere-Pirkkala airport there are regularly operated flights that require border checks. In addition, in the other airports there are occasional flights arriving or departing outside the Schengen area thus requiring border checks to be carried out.

Pleasure Craft and Merchant Vessel Traffic

The only border crossing point for pleasure craft in the operational area of the West Finland Border Guard District is in Mariehamn, Åland.

For more information, contact the Coast Guard District officials in Mariehamn:

• Telephone: +358 (0)71 872 7270
• VHF 68

The authority responsible for border checks on merchant vessels is the Customs.

Border Check Key Figures
	2006	2007	2008
Checks on incoming traffic	27 582	32 345	28 457
Checks on outbound traffic	25 455	29 870	26 208

Additional information: (only in Finnish and Swedish)
Government decree 901/2006
Government decree 534/2008