18. Is there:
a. any public discussion about the topic Yes
b. planning of new regulation at national level No
19. Please specify any additional relevant aspects which were not mentioned.
Excerpts from the unofficial translation of the Finnish Criminal Code http://www.finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/1889/en18890039.pdf
Chapter 25 – Offences against personal liberty
Section 3(b) – Unlawful obtaining of consent to adoption (28/2012)
(1) A person who by (1) promising or providing compensation or (2) misleading or by utilization of an error gets another to give the consent referred to in section 10, subsection 1, section 11, subsection 1 or section 13, subsection 3 of the Adoption Act to adoption of a child under the age of eighteen, shall be sentenced for unlawful obtaining of consent to adoption to a fine or to imprisonment for at most two years.
(2) An attempt is punishable.
Section 3(c) – Unlawful arrangement of adoption (28/2012)
(1) If a person other than the one with care and custody of the child or a person other than the provider of adoption advice referred to in section 22 of the Adoption Act or the service provider referred to in section 32 of the Adoption Act places a child under the age of eighteen years with the intent of adoption in a private home to be raised or in another manner arranges for the possibility that someone else adopts the child, he or she shall be sentenced for unlawful arrangement of adoption to a fine or to imprisonment for at most one year.
(2) Also a person who publicly or otherwise among the public circulates an offer to place a child for adoption or takes a child in his or her care with intent of adoption shall also be sentenced for unlawful arrangement of adoption.