Perustuslaki (Constitution of Finland)

The Constitution of Finland (731/1999, Suomen perustuslaki) is the supreme national legal norm establishing the inviolability of human dignity, the sovereignty of the people, and the rule of law, including a comprehensive catalogue of fundamental rights in Chapter 2.

Section 10 of the Constitution guarantees the right to privacy, forming the constitutional basis for data protection law in Finland alongside the GDPR.

All Finnish legislation must conform to the Constitution. The Constitutional Law Committee of Parliament reviews bills for constitutional compliance before they can be enacted.

Finland does not have a constitutional court. Instead, the Constitutional Law Committee of Parliament performs ex ante constitutional review, and courts can give primacy to the Constitution over ordinary legislation under Section 106.