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All vehicles would have to mandatorily use winter tires within Sunday, said transport association and police.
No vehicle would be allowed to use summer tires from Monday, they said.
The change in winter tires would be needed in most parts of the country as the Meteorological Institute had already informed that bad driving conditions were expected on Sunday.
Snow and sleet blowing was expected throughout the country except for the northern Lapland.
Vehicles users started switching to winter tires from mid-October in the country’s north where snowfall started much earlier that the rest of the country.
