2025-04-232024/25:SoU24 · p.3SoUHealth & social services
Evaluation of legislation
Evaluation of the new legislation on on-farm sales
What's at stake: The decision affects how quickly any over-regulation or inconsistent handling by authorities and municipalities is detected and addressed. It concerns producers who must apply the rules in practice and who risk being affected if local implementation varies.
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 a separate, earlier evaluation of how authorities and municipalities handle the new rules on on-farm sales should be carried out, or whether the general evaluation after six years, before the rules are possibly made permanent, is sufficient.
Yes Yes — the committee proposal
The committee shares the government's assessment that the new rules on on-farm sales should be time-limited to six years and evaluated before any decision is made on making them permanent. The committee considers this general evaluation sufficient and therefore rejects the motion calling for a separate, earlier evaluation of how authorities and municipalities have handled the legislation.
No No — the reservations
Reservation 6 (C)
The reservation (C) calls for an evaluation to be carried out already before 31 December 2026 of how authorities' and municipalities' handling of the rules, fees and regulations has affected the conditions for running on-farm sales, with proposals for legislative changes if needed. The reasoning is that the law contains a long list of regulations to be interpreted locally, and that there is an obvious risk that on-farm sales will become over-regulated before the ordinary six-year evaluation has a chance to catch the problem.
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 6 by C.
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 93/0/0/13
MP
–
Yes 12/0/3/3
Cown reservation
–
No 0/20/0/4
L
–
Yes 14/0/0/2
KD
–
Yes 16/0/0/3
M
–
Yes 60/0/0/8
SD
–
Abstain 0/0/62/10
Broke with the party line
MPAmanda Lind(MP, Stockholms län)
Abstain — party line: Yes
MPDaniel Helldén(MP, Stockholms kommun)
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) claim 2 and
2024/25:3330 by Christofer Bergenblock et al. (C) claim 5.
Original (Swedish)
Riksdagen avslår motionerna
2024/25:3319 av Leonid Yurkovskiy m.fl. (SD) yrkande 2 och
2024/25:3330 av Christofer Bergenblock m.fl. (C) yrkande 5.
Riksdag decision: The Riksdag said yes to the government's proposal which means that, for a limited time, there should be introduced a possibility to sell alcoholic beverages on a small scale through farm sales. The purpose is to improve conditions for the local tourism industry.
Certain restrictions are introduced to ensure that the sales take place on a limited scale and that it is rather the visit than the sale that is in focus. Therefore, the following requirements are introduced, among others:
The alcoholic beverages must be self-produced by small-scale independent producers.
Farm sales may only take place to visitors who have participated in an educational event arranged 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 take effect on June 1, 2025 and for six years forward. Before the regulation ceases, the reform should be evaluated.
Counter-proposals
The counter-proposal wants the law on farm sales to be permanent instead of time-limited to six years. (C) — Reservation 6
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