The Association also acts as Secretariat for the Finnish delegation to the EU’s Committee of Regions as well as for the Council of Europe’s Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe (CLRAE).
The Association also follows the activities of other international local government organisations whose memberships include Finnish local and regional authorities. The Finnish Regional Councils are members of the Assembly of European Regions (AER), the Association of European Border Regions (AEBR), the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions of Europe (CPMR).