Areas of responsibility

• Business development

  Issues relating to business development, small and medium-sized companies, supply of capital, entrepreneurship, simplification of rules, issues relating to patents and innovation, cooperative enterprise and general conditions for enterprise growth.

• Competition

  Issues concerning competition, freedom of trade and certain questions relating to business law as well as EC rules on state aid to the business sector.

• Electronic communications

  Issues concerning electronic communications.

• Energy

  Security of supply, reliable electricity transmission, renewable energy, wind power, electricity certificates and improved energy efficiency

• IT

  Infrastructure and responsibility for coordination on issues relating to the use of information technology.

• Primary idustries

  Forest industries and other energy-intensive primary industries, vehicle manufacturing industries together with their subcontractors and recycling.

• Regional growth

  Regional aid areas, support to enterprises and regional policy coordination. Regional Growth Programmes. Target programmes 1 and 2, and the Community initiatives Interreg, Urban and Leader+. European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP).

• R&D

  Research and development within technology, space exploration, energy, transport and communication, working life and testing and measuring techniques.

• State-owned companies

  Management of enterprises wholly or partly owned by the state.

• Tourism

  Tourism policy, international marketing of tourism.

• Transport

  National and international transport of passengers and goods (roads, air traffic, shipping, railways). Competition conditions for Swedish transport companies. Infrastructure for roads and railways. The EU Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T).