What's at stake: The decision determines whether it becomes easier to build housing and run businesses, including aquaculture, near shorelines at small and man-made waterways, affecting landowners and business owners as well as the public's access to beaches and the wildlife there.
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 adopt the government's bill easing shoreline protection — which, among other things, removes general protection at small and man-made bodies of water and eases rules for aquaculture — or whether the bill should be rejected outright.
Yes Yes — the committee proposal
The committee takes a positive view of the government's bill, noting that it reduces unwarranted differences between counties and gives aquaculture better conditions to develop, proposes only a technical drafting change to the preamble of the amendment to the Planning and Building Act, and therefore recommends adopting the bill in full.
No No — the reservations
Reservation 1 (V, MP)
The reservation (V, MP) wants the Riksdag to reject the government's bill in its entirety, arguing that it worsens public access to nature and living conditions for wildlife, increases shoreline development and thereby weakens protection against extreme weather and flooding, and that the government should instead have proposed smaller adjustments to the general shoreline protection.
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: adopting the government's legislative proposal and rejecting the motions (keeping things as they are).
No Backing the counter-proposal: reservation 1 by V, MP.
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
Vown reservation
–
No 0/19/0/5
S
–
Yes 92/0/0/14
MPown reservation
–
No 0/15/0/3
C
–
Yes 20/0/0/4
L
–
Yes 12/0/0/4
KD
–
Yes 16/0/0/3
M
–
Yes 59/0/0/9
SD
–
Yes 62/0/0/10
Committee proposal
The Riksdag adopts the Government's proposal for
1. a law on amendment to the Environmental Code,
2. a law on amendment to the law (1998:811) on implementation of the Environmental Code,
3. a law on amendment to the Planning and Building Act (2010:900) with the amendment that the preamble to the Government's proposal shall have the following wording: Hereby it is prescribed concerning the Planning and Building Act (2010:900) that partly sections 5, 10 and 16 of chapter 3, section 17 of chapter 4, section 3 of chapter 9 and section 10 of chapter 11 shall have the following wording, partly that a new section, section 17 a of chapter 4, shall be introduced with the following wording.
Thereby the Riksdag approves Government Bill 2024/25:102 points 1-3 and rejects the motions
2024/25:3348 by Andrea Andersson Tay et al. (V) demand 1 and
2024/25:3351 by Emma Nohrén et al. (MP) demand 1.
Original (Swedish)
Riksdagen antar regeringens förslag till
1. lag om ändring i miljöbalken,
2. lag om ändring i lagen (1998:811) om införande av miljöbalken,
3. lag om ändring i plan- och bygglagen (2010:900) med den ändringen att ingressen till regeringens förslag ska ha följande lydelse: Härigenom föreskrivs i fråga om plan- och bygglagen (2010:900) dels att 3 kap. 5, 10 och 16 §§, 4 kap. 17 §, 9 kap. 3 § och 11 kap. 10 § ska ha följande lydelse, dels att det ska införas en ny paragraf, 4 kap. 17 a §, av följande lydelse.
Därmed bifaller riksdagen proposition 2024/25:102 punkterna 1-3 och avslår motionerna
2024/25:3348 av Andrea Andersson Tay m.fl. (V) yrkande 1 och
2024/25:3351 av Emma Nohrén m.fl. (MP) yrkande 1.
Riksdag decision: The Riksdag approved the Government's proposal which entails several reductions in shoreline protection regulations.
According to the proposal, small bodies of water and bodies of water constructed in modern times shall no longer be covered by the general shoreline protection. The proposal also means that opportunities to build or take measures in shoreline-adjacent locations increase.
Shoreline protection shall, in individual cases, be able to be introduced for small bodies of water with special significance for the purposes of shoreline protection, which are to in the long term protect the public's access to shoreline areas and preserve good living conditions for animal and plant life on land and in water.
The exception for enterprises that use natural resources on land and in water, primary industries, becomes according to the Government's proposal more generous. The provisions for primary industries shall also be supplemented so that aquaculture, that is, activity that conducts cultivation in water, for example fish and shellfish farming, is also covered by the reductions.
Furthermore, municipalities shall more easily be able to decide that shoreline protection does not reapply when they adopt a new detailed plan, that is, the regulations that control construction within a certain area.
The proposals enter into force on 1 July 2025.
The Riksdag simultaneously rejected approximately 40 proposals in motions, among other things with reference to the Government's proposal and ongoing work. The proposals were submitted during the general motion period of 2024.
Counter-proposals
The counter-proposal wants to maintain general beach protection and adjust the existing regulations instead of abolishing it. (V, MP) — Reservation 1
Motion 2024/25:1018 — Strandskyddet och utvecklingen i skärgården och på landsbygden av Kerstin Lundgren (C)
Motion 2024/25:1061 — Ett reformerat strandskydd för en levande landsbygd med bostäder och verksamheter av Christofer Bergenblock och Anders Karlsson (båda C)
Motion 2024/25:1371 — Politik för stärkt äganderätt av Martin Kinnunen m.fl. (SD)
Motion 2024/25:1383 — Planering och byggande av Mikael Eskilandersson m.fl. (SD)
Motion 2024/25:1454 — Regional utveckling - för ett levande Sverige av Tobias Andersson m.fl. (SD)