Land-use Planning Systems in the OECD
Country Fact Sheets

This report provides an overview of spatial and land-use planning systems across the OECD. It contains country fact sheets that focus on formal aspects of planning systems, as they are defined by laws and regulations. The country fact sheets describe the responsibilities of each level of government with respect to spatial and land-use planning. They include a description of all spatial and land-use plans of a country and show their hierarchical relations in a diagram. For most countries, the fact sheets also contain key statistics on land use. A summary chapter provides an overview of the information in the country fact sheets and discusses land value capture tools, land expropriation procedures, reforms of the planning system, and other issues. The information provided in this report was collected through a survey that involved academic experts on planning from all 32 countries covered.
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Finland
Finland is a unitary country with 313 municipalities. At an intermediate administrative level are the regional councils, but only the regional council of the island of Åland has the status of an autonomous regional government. The other 18 regional councils are statutory joint municipal boards. As of the time of writing, an on-going reform aims at reforming the regional structure and at establishing full regional governments.
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