The government agencies in

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are state-controlled organizations that act independently to carry out the policies of the

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. 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

* Riksbank, Sweden's central bank. * National Audit Office () — the supreme audit institution of Sweden. *The Parliamentary Ombudsman ().

Ministry of Justice

Ministry for Foreign Affairs

Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Employment

Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation

Ministry of Health and Social Affairs

Ministry of Finance

Ministry of Education and Research

Ministry of Culture

Ministry of the Environment

Ministry of Infrastructure

* Svenska kraftnät * Electrical Safety Board () * Energy Markets Inspectorate () * Civil Aviation Administration () * Agency for Digital Government () * Oil Crisis Board () * Post and Telecom Authority () * Maritime Administration () * Energy Agency () * Road and Transport Research Institute () * Transport Analysis () * Transport Administration () * Transport Agency ()

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 Migration Courts on 31 March 2006, when the new Aliens Act entered into force. * Swedish National Board of Education, 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. * Swedish National Board of Universities and Colleges, 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 Office of the Chancellor of the Swedish Universities, 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 Swedish National Agency for Services to Universities. * Swedish National Integration Board, 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. * Swedish National Public Transport Agency, or ''Rikstrafiken'' on 1 April 2010. *The Railway Safety Fencing Board () was a government agency responsible for settling conflicts between

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and

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companies regarding the building of fences along railways. The board existed 1976—2008. It only decided in one case, which occurred in 1977. * 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 Uppsala University (UU) () is a public university, public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the List of universities in Sweden, oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries still in operation. Initially fou ...

References

Current Government Agencies
on Government's website
Governmental ordinance
(in Swedish) listing agencies affiliation per ministry {{DEFAULTSORT:Government Agencies In Sweden

Lists of organizations based in Sweden Sweden politics-related lists

Defunct agencies

See also

References