Finnish and Swedish, on the same pack
Finnish and Swedish are both national languages, and packaged food offered for sale in Finland is planned with the mandatory particulars in both. A unilingual municipality can be an exception, but nobody designs a national listing around an exception: the artwork is built bilingual from the start, and a pack designed for one language rarely survives the second without a redraw.
Everything else follows the EU food information rules that apply across the Union: the ingredient list with allergens emphasised, the nutrition declaration per 100 g, the metric net quantity, the best-before date, and the name and address of the business placing the product on the market.
What two languages do to the back panel
The practical effect is space. An ingredient list for a filled bar is already longer than the wrapper suggests; run it twice and the back panel is close to full before the storage advice is placed. Type size is not a free variable either, because the rules set a minimum height for the mandatory fields.
So the sequence matters. We prepare the content in both languages from our technical data sheet, you place it in your artwork, and the panel is laid out around the longer of the two lists rather than the shorter one. Nothing goes to print until you approve it in writing.
Who is named, and what that means
The party named on the pack answers for what it says. That party is the importer, with a Finnish or EU address — not the exporter and not the producer. The Finnish Food Authority supervises food information; Finnish Customs handles the entry. Both relationships sit with the business established in Finland.
What comes from our side feeds that file rather than replacing it: our technical data sheet per product, copies of our certificates, lot traceability from production lot to loaded pallet.
The naming traps worth settling early
Two of them come up on nearly every first order. A vegetable-fat coating cannot be called chocolate in the EU, and several Dubai-style bars are compound-coated; we state per line which it is, so that the front of pack and the ingredient list agree.
The second is the pistachio jar. It is searched in Finnish as pistaasitahna, which translates as paste — that is genuinely how buyers look for it, so it is worth saying — but what we ship is a spread. A confectioner's paste and a spread are different products to a buyer and to a customs description, and the name is corrected before it reaches a label.
A.TR, and what it is not
Finland is in the EU, so processed confectionery under chapters 17 and 18 moves on an A.TR movement certificate under the customs union with Türkiye, not on a EUR.1 origin proof. Norway, next door, is the opposite case: outside the Union, where a EUR.1 under the Türkiye–EFTA agreement does the work instead.
An A.TR is a movement certificate. It shows the goods are in free circulation inside the customs union; it is not a statement of origin. Where origin is needed in writing, it comes from the invoice and our documents. The offer states the tariff line and what applies on the day; rates are not published here, because they change.
What to send
Send the references, the quantity per line, the port or delivery address, and say whether you will be the business named on the pack. The written offer follows within two working days, in US dollars or euro: the lines and their minimums, the delivery term and transit, the documents travelling with the container, and per line whether the coating is chocolate or compound. Samples go before the container, from our current production.
Does the label really have to be in Swedish as well as Finnish?
For a national listing it is planned that way: both are national languages and the mandatory particulars are given in both. A unilingual municipality is an exception rather than a plan, so the artwork is built bilingual from the start.
Do you prepare the label text?
We prepare the mandatory content in Finnish and Swedish from our technical data sheet. You place it in your artwork and approve it in writing; nothing is printed before that approval.
Is an A.TR the same as a certificate of origin?
No. It is a movement certificate showing the goods are in free circulation inside the EU–Türkiye customs union. It does not state where the goods were made; origin comes from the invoice and our documents.
