Government agencies in Sweden

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The government agencies in Sweden are state-controlled organizations that act independently to carry out the policies of the Government of Sweden. The ministries are relatively small and merely policy-making organizations, allowed to monitor the agencies and preparing decision and policy papers for the government as a collective body to decide upon.

A Cabinet Minister is explicitly prohibited from interfering with the day-to-day operation in an agency or the outcome in individual cases. The cardinal rule is that Ministers are not allowed to issue orders to agencies in their portfolio personally (with only a few exceptions) as the government agencies are subject to decisions made by the government, although the government cannot even directly overrule an agency in the handling of an individual case.

Other than the executive branch, the Riksdag also has a number of independent agencies.

Riksdag[]

Ministry of Justice[]

Ministry for Foreign Affairs[]

Ministry of Defence[]

Ministry of Employment[]

  • Gender Equality Agency (Jämställdhetsmyndigheten)
  • Delegation against segregation (Delegationen mot segregation)
  • (Myndigheten för arbetsmiljökunskap)
  • Public Employment Service (Arbetsförmedlingen)
  • Work Environment Authority (Arbetsmiljöverket)
  • (Arbetsdomstolen)
  • (Inspektionen för arbetslöshetsförsäkringen)
  • (Nämnden för styrelserepresentationsfrågor)
  • Council for the European Social Fund in Sweden (Swedish ESF Council)
  • (Institutet för arbetsmarknads- och utbildningspolitisk utvärdering)
  • (Statens nämnd för arbetstagares uppfinningar)
  • (Medlingsinstitutet)
  • ILO committee (Svenska ILO-kommittén)
  • (Nämnden mot diskriminering)
  • Ombudsman for Children (Barnombudsmannen)
  • Equality Ombudsman (Diskrimineringsombudsmannen)

Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation[]

Ministry of Health and Social Affairs[]

  • (Alkoholsortimentsnämnden)
  • (Tandvårds- och läkemedelsförmånsverket)
  • (Provinsialläkarstiftelsen)
  • (Inspektionen för socialförsäkringen)
  • (Forskningsrådet för arbetsliv, hälsa och välfärd)
  • (Pensionsmyndigheten)
  • (Myndigheten för familjerätt och föräldraskapsstöd)
  • Inheritance Fund (Arvsfondsdelegationen)
  • (eHälsomyndigheten)
  • Medical Products Agency (Läkemedelsverket)
  • Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services (Statens beredning för medicinsk och social utvärdering)
  • (Myndigheten för delaktighet)
  • (Myndigheten för vård- och omsorgsanays)
  • (Hälso- och sjukvårdens ansvarsnämnd)
  • Health and Social Care Inspectorate (Inspektionen för vård och omsorg)
  • Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen)
  • Board of Institutional Care (Statens institutionsstyrelse)
  • Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan)
  • Public Health Agency (Folkhälsomyndigheten)

Ministry of Finance[]

Ministry of Education and Research[]

Schools, children and youth
  • National Agency for Education, or (Skolverket)
  • Schools Inspectorate (Skolinspektionen)
  • (Specialpedagogiska skolmyndigheten)
  • (Sameskolstyrelsen)
  • (Skolväsendets överklagandenämnd)
Higher education
Research

Ministry of Culture[]

Academies and institutes
Public museums
Performing arts

Ministry of the Environment[]

Ministry of Infrastructure[]

Defunct agencies[]

Some historic government agencies have been merged with other agencies or simply closed down.

  • Aliens Appeals Board of Sweden, or Utlänningsnämnden, UN. Discontinued and replaced by on 31 March 2006, when the new Aliens Act entered into force.
  • , or Skolöverstyrelsen, governed primary and secondary schools. Was replaced by the Swedish National Agency for Education in 1991 when the responsibility for schools was transferred from the state to the municipalities.
  • , or Universitets- och högskoleämbetet, was responsible for higher education until 1992 when the central agency was abolished. It was replaced with an agency with a considerably more limited field of operations, the , or Kanslersämbetet. The Swedish National Agency for Higher Education was set up on 1 July 1995, incorporating the Office of the Chancellor, the Council for the Renewal of Undergraduate Education (Grundutbildningsrådet) and parts of the .
  • , or Integrationsverket. Located in Norrköping. Field of operations: The Swedish Integration Board to ensure that the visions and goals of Sweden's integration policies have an impact in the various areas of society. Closed down on 1 July 2007.
  • Swedish National Plant Variety Board, or Statens växtsortnämnd. Field of operations: issues relating to plant breeding and the admission of plants into the different classification lists. Made a part of the Swedish National Board of Agriculture on 1 January 2006.
  • , or Rikstrafiken on 1 April 2010.
  • The Railway Safety Fencing Board (Swedish: Stängselnämnden) was a government agency responsible for settling conflicts between municipalities and rail transport companies regarding the building of fences along railways.[1] The board existed 1976—2008. It only decided in one case, which occurred in 1977.[1]
  • Swedish Seed Testing and Certification Institute, or Statens utsädeskontroll. Field of operations: seed testing. Made a part of the Swedish National Board of Agriculture on 1 January 2006.
  • The State Institute for Racial Biology or Statens institut för rasbiologi. Field of operations: studying eugenics and human genetics. Established in 1922 and changed to State Institute for Human Genetics in 1958 and merged into Uppsala University.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Landes, David (11 February 2008). "Agency disbanded for not mending enough fences". The Local. Retrieved 18 June 2011.
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