2025-04-232024/25:SoU24 · p.2SoUHealth & social services
Conditions for Farm Sales
Conditions for on-farm sales of alcoholic beverages
What's at stake: The decision affects how much small-scale producers may sell and how much visitors may buy on each occasion, as well as whether a repeat visit to the same farm requires a paid experience every time. It concerns local producers who want to develop their visitor operations and consumers who want to buy locally produced alcohol.
Case texts and AI reasoning are AI-translated from the Swedish originals; the Swedish text is authoritative.
What the vote decides
The question is how strict the conditions for the new on-farm alcohol sales should be - including how low the volume limits for producers and consumers should be, whether a paid visitor experience should be required for every purchase, and whether the reform should be time-limited - or whether fewer restrictions should apply.
Yes Yes — the committee proposal
The committee shares the government's assessment that, for reasons of alcohol and public-health policy, it is justified to limit on-farm sales through a maximum production volume and a limit on how much a consumer may buy per occasion, in line with a normal purchase at the state alcohol retailer. The committee also shares the assessment that sales should be tied to a paid, educational visitor experience that includes information on the harms of alcohol, and that the new rules should be time-limited to six years so they can be evaluated and remain compatible with EU law. Against this background, the committee rejects the motions concerning the conditions for on-farm sales.
No No — the reservations
Reservation 3 (SD)
The reservation (SD) welcomes the proposal for on-farm sales but argues that the conditions should be less restrictive, including through higher volume limits for both producers and consumers, no requirement for a paid experience at every purchase, and no six-year time limit. The reasoning is that the proposed limits risk stifling growth and undermining the purpose of the reform, and that it is not reasonable, for example, for a neighbour buying a couple of bottles of wine to be forced to pay for an experience every time.
Summarised from the committee report. Party labels in the summary come from the report, not from the vote.
V–
S–
MP–
C–
L–
KD–
M–
SD–
YesNoAbstainAbsent
What do the votes mean here?
Yes The committee proposal: rejecting the motions (keeping things as they are).
No Backing the counter-proposal: reservation 3 by SD.
Abstain The party marks a position of its own that is not one of the two final alternatives.
The plan's stance / Actual vote
AI
Vote
Confidence
Evidence
V
–
Abstain 0/0/21/3
S
–
Yes 90/0/3/13
MP
–
Yes 14/0/1/3
C
–
Abstain 0/0/20/4
L
–
Yes 14/0/0/2
KD
–
Yes 16/0/0/3
M
–
Yes 60/0/0/8
SDown reservation
–
No 0/62/0/10
Broke with the party line
SAnna-Caren Sätherberg(S, Jämtlands län)
Abstain — party line: Yes
SFredrik Lundh Sammeli(S, Norrbottens län)
Abstain — party line: Yes
SKalle Olsson(S, Jämtlands län)
Abstain — party line: Yes
MPUlrika Westerlund(MP, Stockholms kommun)
Abstain — party line: Yes
MPs whose vote differs from their party's majority position in this division. Marked with a dark ring in the chamber view.
Committee proposal
The Riksdag rejects the motions
2024/25:3319 by Leonid Yurkovskiy et al. (SD) demand 1 and
2024/25:3330 by Christofer Bergenblock et al. (C) demands 2-4.
Original (Swedish)
Riksdagen avslår motionerna
2024/25:3319 av Leonid Yurkovskiy m.fl. (SD) yrkande 1 och
2024/25:3330 av Christofer Bergenblock m.fl. (C) yrkandena 2-4.
Riksdag decision: The Riksdag approved the government's proposal which means that, for a limited period, a possibility shall be introduced to sell alcoholic beverages on a smaller scale at farm sales. The aim is to improve conditions for the local tourism industry.
Certain restrictions are introduced to ensure that sales occur on a limited scale and that it is the visit rather than the sale that is in focus. Therefore, among other things, the following requirements are introduced:
The alcoholic beverages shall be self-produced by small-scale independent producers.
Farm sales may only take place to visitors who have participated in an educational event organized by the producer and paid for.
Sales to each individual visitor may not exceed 0.7 liters of spirits, 3 liters of wine, 3 liters of strong beer and 3 liters of other fermented alcoholic beverages at the same visit.
The legislative changes enter into force on 1 June 2025 and for six years onwards. Before the regulation is repealed, the reform should be evaluated.
Counter-proposals
The counter-proposal wants fewer restrictions on farm sales, with higher volume limits, no paid experience requirement, and no time limitation. (SD) — Reservation 3
Motion 2024/25:3319 — med anledning av prop. 2024/25:86 Bättre förutsättningar för besöksnäringen i fråga om småskalig produktion av alkoholdrycker av Leonid Yurkovskiy m.fl. (SD)
Motion 2024/25:3322 — med anledning av prop. 2024/25:86 Bättre förutsättningar för besöksnäringen i fråga om småskalig produktion av alkoholdrycker av Karin Rågsjö m.fl. (V)
Motion 2024/25:3327 — med anledning av prop. 2024/25:86 Bättre förutsättningar för besöksnäringen i fråga om småskalig produktion av alkoholdrycker av Fredrik Lundh Sammeli m.fl. (S)
Motion 2024/25:3330 — med anledning av prop. 2024/25:86 Bättre förutsättningar för besöksnäringen i fråga om småskalig produktion av alkoholdrycker av Christofer Bergenblock m.fl. (C)
Motion 2024/25:3331 — med anledning av prop. 2024/25:86 Bättre förutsättningar för besöksnäringen i fråga om småskalig produktion av alkoholdrycker av Ulrika Westerlund m.fl. (MP)
Proposition 2024/25:86 — Bättre förutsättningar för besöksnäringen i fråga om småskalig produktion av alkoholdrycker