As of 1 May 2025, the National Land Survey was given the task of assessing and determining compensation to about a thousand landowners whose areas are needed for the barrier fence permanently and who suffer damage or inconvenience due to the construction of the fence.
The first expropriation compensation proceedings to be determined in accordance with the Redemption Act are now underway in Parikkala on the Kolmikanta fence section, for example.
− We have marked in the terrain the land area initially needed for the fence project, made the necessary land surveys and inventoried the property to be expropriated from the landowners, says Petri Lukin, production manager responsible for valuation and expropriation at the National Land Survey.
− After the fence is completed, we will build new border markers to replace the missing ones, and the expropriation committee will confirm the restricted area needed for the fence.
The Border Guard will pay increased expropriation compensation
The expropriations of the fence project are governed by the updated Redemption Act that entered into force on 1 August 2025, based on which landowners receive a quarter higher compensation for their losses as a result of the amendment to the Act.
− A 25% increase will be paid on top of the full compensation based on the market value of the properties, says Mauri Asmundela, director responsible for expropriation at the National Land Survey of Finland.
The barrier fence consists of a metal mesh fence, an adjacent road, a treeless area and a technical monitoring system. There are about 1,000 landowners in the area, from whom the Border Guard will redeem the right to use the necessary area in the public interest.
The expropriation committee, led by a cadastral surveyor from the National Land Survey of Finland, evaluates and determines the compensation to the landowners for the fence project in accordance with the Redemption Act. The Border Guard makes decisions concerning the construction and clearing work in accordance with the Border Guard Act. The Border Guard also pays the compensation to landowners.
More information
Production Manager Petri Lukin, +358 29 531 5237
Director Mauri Asmundela, +358 29 531 5115
The email format is firstname.lastname@nls.fi.