Agencies

Agencies reporting to the Ministry of the Environment

• The National Board of Housing, Building and Planning (Boverket)

  The National Board of Housing, Building and Planning is the agency for community planning, urban development, building and housing. The Agency promotes a human housing and building environment with reasonably priced housing and construction that is efficient, safe, healthy and environmentally sustainable. The National Board of Housing, Building and Planning also promotes the sustainable use of land and water.

• The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (FORMAS)

  The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (FORMAS) supports and disseminates information on research within its areas of responsibility. The Council promotes growth within the framework of an ecologically sustainable development.

• The National Chemicals Inspectorate (KemI)

  The National Chemicals Inspectorate (KemI) works to prevent damage to people and the environment caused by chemical and biotechnological products. The vision is for future generations to be able to live healthily in a good environment in a sustainable society.
  

• The Board of the Swedish Nuclear Waste Fund (Kärnavfallsfonden)

  The Board of the Swedish Nuclear Waste Fund administers funds set aside to finance future costs for dealing with spent nuclear fuel and other radioactive waste.

• The National Land Survey (Lantmäteriverket)

  The National Land Survey is the central agency for central government land surveying. The agency provides society with general maps and other fundamental property and landscape information. The National Land Survey also promotes effective property distribution within the framework of land parcelling. The agency is also responsible for place-names.

• The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdsverket)

  The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency is a co-ordinator and promoter of environmental work, nationally, within the EU and internationally. The agency is responsible for producing and disseminating information in the field of the environment, it drafts proposals for objectives, strategies of measures and policy levers in environmental policy and implements environmental policy decisions. Its task is also to follow up and evaluate the environmental situation and work being undertaken on the environment, to be used as a basis for the continued development of environmental policy.

• The Swedish Geotechnical Institute (Statens geotekniska institut)

  The Swedish Geotechnical Institute (SGI) is responsible for building up a body of Swedish geotechnical expertise and for dissemination of this information. The Institute gives geotechnological advice to central government agencies responsible for areas relating to the environment, infrastructure, spatial planning and building. The SGI has special responsibility for issues pertaining to land-falls and land-slides.

• The Swedish National Water Supply and Sewage Tribunal (Statens va-nämnd)

  The Swedish National Water Supply and Sewage Tribunal deals with cases under the Act concerning public water and sewage systems and the Act concerning public heating systems.

• The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI)

  The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) provides climate- and waterdependent operations with background material to be used as a basis for planning and decision-making. The agency acts as a central government expert body on meteorology, hydrology and oceanography and is a resource in environmental work.
  

• The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority

  The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority has been a managing authority under the Ministry of the Environment since 1 July 2008, with national collective responsibility within the areas of radiation protection and nuclear safety.

• Swedesurvey AB

  Swedesurvey AB exports Swedish expertise in the land survey area focusing on real property systems, geographical information, real property information and geographical information technology.