Time limitation

The plan's commitment to restrictive regulation of alcohol speaks against permanently scrapping protective rules in alcohol legislation. A time limitation with restored requirements keeps the restrictive framework and makes it possible to test the effects against public health. The plan therefore supports the counter-proposal's demand for time limitation.

• restrictive alcohol policydecisive»Vi vill se en restriktiv reglering av alkohol och tobak.« (party programme ↗)“We want to see restrictive regulation of alcohol and tobacco.”
• public health as framework»Vården behöver ses som en del i det bredare arbetet med folkhälsa.« (party programme ↗)“Healthcare needs to be seen as part of broader work on public health.”
• goals that are followed up»Vi vill se ambitiösa« (party programme ↗)“We want to see ambitious”

The design of alcohol policy is absent from the plan. The closest principle is the public health goal together with the requirement to combat disreputable actors and distorted competition. Limiting a comprehensive change that lacks consequence analysis therefore aligns better with the plan than a permanent restructuring.

• equal public healthdecisive»Jämlik och jämställd folkhälsa.« (party programme ↗)“Equal and equitable public health.”
• stop for disreputable actors»Bekämpande av bedrägerier och all annan ekonomisk brottslighet.« (party programme ↗)“Combating fraud and all other economic crime.”
• sound competition»Förhindrande av priskarteller och oskälig prissättning.« (party programme ↗)“Prevention of price cartels and unreasonable pricing.”

The plan does not address alcohol policy's regulatory framework and says nothing about time-limiting legislative changes. The closest lying principle is that society shall act preventively for public health and that decisions with uncertain consequences shall be handled carefully. A time-limited arrangement with restoration, as the counter-proposal requires, is therefore closer to the plan's health orientation than a permanent change without consequence analysis.

• health-promoting policydecisive»Miljöpartiet vill att vården ska bidra till hälsa, inte bara behandla sjukdom.« (party programme ↗)“The Green Party wants healthcare to contribute to health, not just treat illness.”
• public health as goal»Vi vill se ökad samverkan mellan olika aktörer för att uppnå en god folkhälsa« (party programme ↗)“We want to see increased cooperation between different actors to achieve good public health”
• prevention against addiction»En effektiv narkotikapolitik måste kombinera förebyggande arbete med skademinimering« (party programme ↗)“An effective drug policy must combine preventive work with harm reduction”

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 wants to permanently clean up complicated rules that hinder tourism and small businesses, not introduce them on a trial basis with automatic restoration. A time limit that reintroduces the abolished requirements creates exactly the uncertainty and regulatory red tape the plan wants to get rid of. The counter-proposal's demand therefore contradicts the plan's line.

• clean up unnecessary rulesdecisive»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-hampering regulations lie like a wet blanket over parts of rural Sweden. We will clean up unnecessary rules and bureaucracy.”
• freer alcohol regulations»Det är orimligt att lokala producenter av alkoholhaltiga drycker inte kan sälja sina produkter till besökare. Tillåt gårdsförsäljning av alkohol för att stärka besöksnäringen och utveckla landsbygden.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“It is unreasonable that local producers of alcoholic beverages cannot sell their products to visitors. Allow farm sales of alcohol to strengthen tourism and develop rural areas.”
• long-term conditions for business»Goda villkor för entreprenörer, egenföretagare och små företag är därför avgörande för att skapa nya jobb.« (party programme ↗)“Good conditions for entrepreneurs, self-employed and small businesses are therefore crucial for creating new jobs.”

The plan wants the requirement for food service for alcohol service to be removed and the regulatory burden to decrease—it thus sees the elimination as a lasting reform, not as a time-limited experiment to be restored. The counter-proposal wants to limit the change in time and reintroduce the eliminated requirements. The plan is silent on time limitation as a tool, but its substantive commitment speaks against restoration.

• eliminated food requirement for servicedecisive»Krav på matservering för alkoholservering på restaurang ska tas bort och reglerna för gårdsförsäljning ska förenklas.« (party programme ↗)“The requirement for food service for alcohol service at restaurants shall be removed and the rules for farm sales shall be simplified.”
• reduced regulatory burden»Regelbördan för små företag ska minska, genom ansträngningar på både kommunal, statlig och europeisk nivå, och offentliga beslut analyseras ur småföretagarperspektiv.« (party programme ↗)“The regulatory burden for small businesses shall decrease, through efforts at municipal, state, and European levels, and public decisions are analyzed from a small-business perspective.”
• clear rules of play»Vi vill ha spelregler som gör det lätt att göra rätt och säkerställer konkurrens på rättvisa villkor även i digitaliseringens och delningsekonomins tid.« (party programme ↗)“We want rules that make it easy to do the right thing and ensure fair competition even in the time of digitalization and the sharing economy.”
• restrictive alcohol policy»Sverige ska ha en restriktiv alkoholpolitik.« (party programme ↗)“Sweden shall have a restrictive alcohol policy.”

The plan builds alcohol policy on restrictive legislation and low total consumption, and highlights evaluation and quality control as important political tasks. A time limit with restoration is one way to test a loosening before it becomes permanent. The counter-proposal's requirement therefore lies close to the plan's cautious stance on alcohol.

• restrictive alcohol legislationdecisive»Genom generella och särskilda åtgärder som information, en aktiv prispolitik, försäljningsmonopol och en restriktiv lagstiftning, skapas förutsättningar för att minska skadeverkningarna.« (party programme ↗)“Through general and specific measures such as information, an active price policy, sales monopoly and restrictive legislation, conditions are created to minimise harm.”
• low total alcohol consumption»Det alkoholpolitiska arbetet ska syfta till att minimera alkoholskador genom en låg totalkonsumtion.« (party programme ↗)“Alcohol policy work shall aim to minimise alcohol harms through low total consumption.”
• evaluation as political task»Utvärdering, kostnadsuppföljning och kvalitetskontroll är därför viktiga politiska uppgifter.« (party programme ↗)“Evaluation, cost monitoring and quality control are therefore important political tasks.”
• protective mechanisms in alcohol law»Det ska finnas åldersgränser för inköp av alkohol och tobak.« (party programme ↗)“There shall be age limits for purchase of alcohol and tobacco.”

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 promises permanent deregulation of companies' conditions, not temporary relief that is restored at a later date. A time limitation that reintroduces the abolished requirements creates precisely the uncertainty about conditions for starting and growing that the plan wants to remove. The plan therefore speaks against the counter-proposal's demand for a sunset solution.

• permanently reduced regulatory red tapedecisive»Ta bort en tredjedel av företagens administrationskostnader och en tredjedel av regelkrånglet« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Remove a third of companies' administrative costs and a third of regulatory red tape”
• predictable business conditions»Villkoren för att starta, växa och expandera behöver vara goda för att fler ska våga lämna trygga och välbetalda jobb för att starta företag.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Conditions for starting, growing and expanding need to be good so more dare to leave secure and well-paid jobs to start companies.”
• simpler licensing rules»Korta myndigheternas handläggningstider genom en bortre tidsgräns« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Shorten government agencies' handling times through external time limits”

The plan seeks long-term and predictable rules for business operations and wants to ease small businesses' regulatory burden. A time-limited simplification that is later restored creates precisely the unpredictability the plan wants to avoid, which is why the counter-proposal's demands are rejected. The plan's requirement to counteract fraud and systems that invite fraud speaks to some extent the other way.

• predictable rulesdecisive»En förutsättning för att lönsamma investeringar ska kunna göras är en långsiktig politik som tar hänsyn till industrins behov av en förutsägbar process.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“A precondition for profitable investments to be made is long-term policy that takes account of industry's need for a predictable process.”
• regulatory simplification»Verka för regelförenkling och avlasta småföretagens administrativa börda« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Work for regulatory simplification and ease small businesses' administrative burden”
• counter fraud»Både fusk och sådana system som tenderar att locka till fusk och korruption ska motverkas.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Both fraud and systems that tend to invite fraud and corruption should be countered.”