The Swedish Road Administration ( sv, Vägverket), formerly The Royal Board for Public Road and Water Structures, was a

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. Its primary responsibility was to organise building and maintenance of the road network in Sweden. Its headquarters were located in

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History

The Swedish Road Administration was founded in 1841 as The Royal Board for Public Road and Water Structures ( sv, Kongliga styrelsen för allmänna wäg- och wattenbyggnader) and was responsible for Sweden's

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s and

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s. In 1993 the

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( Trafiksäkerhetsverket) was merged into SRA. In 2009 the responsibility for the vehicle register and issuing of drivers' licenses,
About Swedish Transport Agency was moved to a new authority, Transportstyrelsen. At the same time the department for the actual road work was separated from Vägverket into a government owned company, called

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. For a number of year this department, then called Vägverket Produktion, was a profit-making organisation competing with private companies. The agency was merged with the Swedish Rail Administration (''Banverket'') on 1 April 2010 to create the new Swedish Transport Administration (''Trafikverket'').

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Swedish Road Administration (to be phased out)Information about the Swedish driver's license
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