2026-06-092025/26:UU9 · p.5UUForeign affairs

Motions handled in a simplified manner

Arms exports to individual countries and the vetting of export licences

What's at stake: The licensing assessment decides whether Swedish military equipment may be sold to states where human rights are violated or where there is a risk the equipment is used in conflict. It concerns the defence industry's export opportunities and technological level, Sweden's foreign-policy credibility and commitments — and ultimately people in the recipient countries.

Case texts and AI reasoning are AI-translated from the Swedish originals; the Swedish text is authoritative.

What the vote decides

The question is whether the Riksdag should reject the motions handled under the simplified procedure and let the current vetting of arms-export licences stand, or whether the rules on exports to individual countries should be tightened as the motions demand.

Yes Yes — the committee proposal

The committee notes that Swedish licence vetting rests on an overall assessment based on the government's guidelines and established practice, taking into account the criteria in the EU common position and the UN Arms Trade Treaty, and that the ISP, as an independent authority, decides on applications on its own. Foreign-policy obstacles are divided into unconditional obstacles that rule out exports — an arms embargo decided by the UN Security Council, the EU or the OSCE is such an obstacle — and obstacles that are weighed against broad security and defence-policy interests in an overall assessment of all circumstances in the individual case. Respect for human rights and the recipient state's democratic status are central conditions, and exports go only to a state, a state authority or a recipient authorised by a state. The parliamentary Export Control Council assists the ISP in interpreting the guidelines and increases transparency and consultation. On that basis the committee rejects the motions under this point.

Summarised from the committee report. Party labels in the summary come from the report, not from the vote.

VSMPCLKDMSD
YesNoAbstainAbsent

What do the votes mean here?

Yes The committee proposal: Riksdagen avslår de motionsyrkanden som finns upptagna under denna punkt i utskottets förteckning över avstyrkta motionsyrkanden.

No Rejecting the committee proposal.

Abstain The party marks a position of its own that is not one of the two final alternatives.

What each plan points to — and how the party voted

For each party: the vote its own election manifesto and party programme point to in this case, next to how the party actually voted. A plan can only point to Yes or No; a party can also abstain.

PlanVoteConfidenceEvidence
V–Yes 20/0/0/1
S–Yes 106/0/0/0
MP–Yes 18/0/0/0
C–Yes 23/0/0/1
L–Yes 16/0/0/0
KD–Yes 18/0/0/1
M–Yes 65/0/0/1
SD–Yes 68/0/0/2

Committee proposal

The Riksdag rejects the motion items listed under this point in the committee's list of rejected motion items.

Original (Swedish)

Riksdagen avslår de motionsyrkanden som finns upptagna under denna punkt i utskottets förteckning över avstyrkta motionsyrkanden.

Riksdag decision: Every year since 1985, the Government reports in a communication to the Riksdag on Sweden's export of military equipment. The communication addresses Swedish export control policy regarding military equipment and goods with dual use. The communication contains a report on military equipment exports that occurred during 2025. In addition, the Government describes cooperation within the EU and in other international forums regarding strategic export control of military equipment and goods with dual use. The Riksdag has decided to place the communication on file. The Riksdag also decided to reject proposals on export control of military equipment and goods with dual use in motions, of which 23 proposals are from the general motion period 2025.

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Source: The Swedish Parliament