Affecto Oyj - Company Announcement

The Finnish Agency for Rural Affairs chooses Affecto to operate the Finnish Land Parcel Identification System

AFFECTO PLC    STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE      8 OCTOBER 2007 at 13.00


The Finnish Agency for Rural Affairs chooses Affecto to operate the Finnish
Land Parcel Identification System 


The Finnish Agency for Rural Affairs has chosen the Finnish IT service company
Affecto to operate the Finnish Land Parcel Identification System for the next
three year period. Affecto will be responsible for producing the IT system and
maintaining the land parcel register. The new agreement continues the
cooperation between Affecto and the Finnish Agency for Rural Affairs that was
begun in 2000. 

Paying farmers the support payments financed by European Union, requires the
member states to ensure a reliable identification of land parcels. The basic
idea of the Finnish Land Parcel Identification register is to guarantee that
the support payments are paid by correct acreage. Furthermore, the register
produces comparison acreages in order to help the administration to check the
land sizes reported by the farmers. 

The value of the three year agreement signed by the Finnish Agency for Rural
Affairs and Affecto is 4.5 million Euros for years 2008 to 2010. In addition,
the agreement includes three optional years. The Agency chose Affecto to its
service provider based on a European Union wide tender competition. 

"The Agency expects the Land Parcel Identification System to have a very good
usability, reliability and high information security. Good delivery reliability
in maintaining the basic system was also required from the service providers
taking part in the tender competition in order to let us continue the
development of our digital services safely," states Mr Mika Tuikkanen, Director
of the Department of Information Management in the Finnish Agency for Rural
Affairs. 

"We are pleased that the Agency values our quality and cost-effectiveness as
well as our long experience in providing outsourced location services. Our aim
is to create long-term relationships with customers and this cooperation stands
as a good example of this," says Mr Ray Byman, Senior Vice President of Sales
in Affecto. 

Affecto is a leading provider of outsourced location services. Company has a
long track record of providing Geographical Information solutions and is one of
the pioneering companies in Finland providing GIS solutions. Affecto's GIS
service portfolio includes software, geographical data, customised solutions
and integration of GIS systems into organisational IT systems. 


Affecto Plc
Tuula Wäyrynen
SVP, Corporate Communications 


For further information, please, contact:
 
Ray Byman, SVP in Sales, Affecto, tel. +358 205 777 823
Mika Tuikkanen, Director of the Department of Information Management, The
Finnish Agency for Rural Affairs, tel. +358 20 7725 555

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affecto_land parcel_08 10 2007.pdf