Environment

Kauniainen’s environment office is in charge of environmental protection. Its duties include legislative enforcement, e.g. environmental protection, nature conservation and waste laws, in addition to the counselling services and planning work in environmental protection and nature conservation.

The environment office monitors the state of the environment and provides guidance and supervision for individuals and organizations. The environmental manager handles landscape work permits under the land use and construction legislation, in addition to noise notifications under the legislation on environmental protection.

Environment health protection is managed by the Espoo region environmental health (in Finnish):