The Role of Kammarkollegiet (Supreme Administrative Court of Appeal) as a Party to Administrative Proceedings

The plan does not address public authorities, but its guiding principle is that legal certainty is upheld through citizen oversight and independent scrutiny and that environmental targets shall be followed up with sharp legislation and practical work. Removing an authority with long experience in safeguarding public interests, among others public water areas, points in the opposite direction. The plan furthermore wants the state to increase its control over infrastructure and resources, which supports that the general party role be retained.

• oversight and independent scrutinydecisive»Rättssäkerheten behöver upprätthållas genom rättshjälp, medborgerlig« (party programme ↗)“Legal certainty needs to be upheld through legal aid, citizen”
• sharp environmental legislation»miljömål som följs upp med skarp lagstiftning och praktiskt arbete.« (party programme ↗)“environmental targets followed up with sharp legislation and practical work.”
• state control of resources»Staten måste öka sin kontroll över infrastruktur och resurser som behövs för att genomföra klimatomställningen.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The state must increase its control over infrastructure and resources needed to implement the climate transition.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan rests on the need for democratic counterweights, because market mechanisms do not account for things lacking a market price, such as air and water, and that environmental considerations should be built into approvals. Retaining a state party agency that safeguards public interests and public water areas aligns with that principle. However, the plan does not address agency roles in environmental approvals, so the support is derived.

• democratic counterweightsdecisive»Det krävs demokratiska motvikter för att skapa de stabila spelregler som behövs« (party programme ↗)“Democratic counterweights are needed to create the stable rules required”
• protect shared resources»marknadsmekanismerna inte klarar av att hushålla med sådant som saknar marknadspris,« (party programme ↗)“market mechanisms cannot account for things lacking a market price,”
• environmental considerations in approvals»Hänsynen till miljöns krav ska byggas in i produktionsprocesserna redan från början.« (party programme ↗)“Environmental considerations must be built into production processes from the start.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan wishes reconsiderations of water activities to be driven with increased environmental requirements and wishes to protect general water interests and clean water. A public authority monitoring general interests in the reconsideration processes is a tool for this, and removing its party role weakens the monitoring. Therefore the plan supports the counter-proposal's requirement to retain Kammarkollegiet as party authority.

• increased environmental requirements in reconsiderationdecisive»vattenkraftverk samtidigt som ökade miljökrav« (party programme ↗)“water power plants at the same time as increased environmental requirements”
• clean water and diversity»Rent vatten är en förutsättning för att kunna« (party programme ↗)“Clean water is a prerequisite for”
• protection of water environments»rädda kustens ekosystem — återskapa förstörda miljöer .« (2022 manifesto ↗)“save the coast's ecosystem — restore destroyed environments.”
• protection of key biotopes in water»skydd av nyckelbiotoper i vatten och av områden« (party programme ↗)“protection of key biotopes in water and of areas”

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The counter-proposal wants to retain Kammarkollegiet as a party in the reviews, which means more government parties and longer processes. The plan's core commitment is to halve permit times, shorten processing times in agencies and courts, and streamline the bureaucracy. The plan therefore speaks against preserving the arrangement the counter-proposal wants to retain, even though it does not explicitly address this agency role.

• halved permit timesdecisive»Klimatet kan inte vänta på dyra och krångliga regelverk. Det är dags att halvera tiden det tar att få tillstånd för gröna investeringar och reformera miljöbalken så att ett projekts klimatnytta ges större vikt i miljöprövningen.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Climate cannot wait for expensive and complicated regulations. It is time to halve the time it takes to get permits for green investments and reform the Environmental Code so that a project's climate benefit is given greater weight in environmental review.”
• shorter processing times»Alla som bor i Sverige ska kunna få sin sak prövad. Ledtiderna för handläggning och myndighetsutövning i domstolar och myndigheter måste kortas och tillgången till ombud förbättras.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Everyone living in Sweden should be able to have their case heard. Processing times for administration and public authority action in courts and agencies must be shortened, and access to legal representation improved.”
• less bureaucracy»Dyra, krångliga och innovationshämmande regelverk ligger som en våt filt över delar av landsbygden. Vi ska rensa upp bland överflödiga regler och byråkrati.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Expensive, complicated and innovation-hindering regulations lie like a wet blanket over parts of rural areas. We shall clean up among redundant rules and bureaucracy.”
• strong property rights»Äganderätten är central för ett samhälle där människor kan förverkliga sig själva och sina drömmar.« (party programme ↗)“Property rights are central to a society where people can realize themselves and their dreams.”

The plan says nothing about which authorities shall be parties in environmental review. The nearest principle is that policy shall quickly remove obstacles and modernize the regulations, which speaks against keeping an additional agency party in the review. The plan's requirement that general interests and today's environmental regulations are maintained simultaneously pulls in the opposite direction, which is why the conclusion is uncertain.

• remove obstacles in the reviewdecisive»Politikens uppgift måste vara att snabbt undanröja hinder« (party programme ↗)“Policy's task must be to quickly remove obstacles”
• modernized regulations»modernisera regelverken och ge kärnkraften betalt för att den alltid finns tillgänglig« (2022 manifesto ↗)“modernize the regulations and pay nuclear power for always being available”
• general interests in water review»Vattenkraften kan utvecklas genom effektivisering, inte genom ökad exploatering.« (party programme ↗)“Hydropower can be developed through efficiency, not through increased exploitation.”

The election manifesto commits to protecting both large-scale and small-scale hydropower and to providing the energy production long-term conditions, and the party programme requires that licensing processes are characterized by efficiency and good service. Retaining the Chamber of Justice as a party authority in the reviews pulls in the opposite direction and extends the processes. The plan says nothing explicit about the party authority, so the position is derived from these principles.

• protect hydropowerdecisive»Värna vattenkraften, både den storskaliga och småskaliga.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Protect hydropower, both large-scale and small-scale.”
• efficient licensing processes»Men planprocessen måste också präglas av effektivitet och god serviceanda« (party programme ↗)“But the planning process must also be characterized by efficiency and good service”
• long-term conditions for energy production»Satsa på kärnkraften med långsiktiga villkor att utvecklas.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Invest in nuclear power with long-term conditions to develop.”

The counter-proposal wants to keep Kammarkollegiet as a party agency, that is, keep yet another state party in the proceedings. The plan's overarching requirement is shorter and simpler permit processes: processing times should be pressed with a maximum time limit and permit review for environment and electricity networks speeded up. Removing a party agency role lies in that direction. The issue is not directly addressed in the plan, so certainty is low.

• faster agency reviewdecisive»Korta myndigheternas handläggningstider genom en bortre tidsgräns« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Shorten agencies' processing times through a maximum time limit”
• shorter permit processes»Investera i det svenska elnätet och korta tillståndsprocesserna för elnätsutbyggnad« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Invest in the Swedish electricity network and shorten permit processes for electricity network expansion”
• faster environmental permits»Minska antalet regler för jordbruket och korta handläggningstider för miljötillstånd« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Reduce the number of rules for agriculture and shorten processing times for environmental permits”

The plan requires more efficient and predictable permit processes and that agencies be streamlined and merged rather than more state parties participating in the assessments. Keeping the Chamber of Commerce (Kammarkollegiet) as a party authority pulls in the opposite direction and prolongs processes for operators. The plan therefore argues against the counter-proposal's demands, albeit without mentioning party authorities.

• more efficient permit processesdecisive»Effektivisera och öka förutsägbarheten i tillståndsprocesserna för gruvnäring, elnätsutbyggnad och industri« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Streamline and increase predictability in permit processes for mining, power grid expansion and industry”
• streamline agencies»Sverigedemokraterna vill också slå samman myndigheter och renodla offentliga verksamheter där det är möjligt.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Sweden Democrats also want to merge agencies and streamline public services where possible.”
• supportive agency role»Myndigheterna får inte bli företagens fiender som sätter käppar i hjulen utan måste få en mer stödjande funktion.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Agencies must not become companies' enemies that put spokes in their wheels but must take on a more supportive function.”
• long permit processes»Tillståndsprocesser är ofta långa och oförutsägbara« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Permit processes are often long and unpredictable”