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Ministry: Minors in Finland use loophole to order alcohol from online stores abroad
According to the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, a buyer s age is not being definitively verified by suppliers.
Yle learned of one case one case where students in grades 7 to 9, or from ages 12 to 15, were ordering alcohol shipments to post box addresses.
Image: Antti Karhunen / Yle
Finnish and EU authorities have been negotiating over differences in legislation on the sale of alcohol into Finland from abroad for a number of years, and the legal wrangling has left a loophole in the law.
According to the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, this means that in practice the age of a customer in Finland purchasing alcohol online from a supplier abroad may not be definitively verified at any stage. ....

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