The Enforment and Regulations Council

The Enforcement and Regulations Council is a body for co-operation between Swedish public authorities concerning enforcement and regulations matters in association with the Swedish Environmental Code.

The Council has established this website, www.tofr.info, where you can find (in Swedish) the outcome of the Council's activities, enforcement information from the various authorities that are members of the Council etc.

Members
The Members of the Enforcement and Regulations Council are appointed by the Government, representing the following authorities:

The Council is chaired by Martin Eriksson, Director of the Environmental Assesment Department at Protecion Agency.

Secretariat
The Council is assisted by a secretariat based in the Swedish EPA. Please forward any comment on this website and questions about the Council to tofr@naturvardsverket.se or to some of the members of the secretariat which are:

Activities
The activities of the Council are mainly organised into time-limited projects with participation from various member authorities.

Seminars on topics of common interest for the member authorities are organised regularly by the Council. They focus on key issues and act as fora for discussing common viewpoints and promoting sector and level integration. Up till now, seminars have been held on, inter alia, "Inspection for better self monitoring", "Inspection planning based on the environmental quality objectives", "Environmental crime and enforcement", "The quality of enforcement", "IMPEL and its relation to Swedish environmental inspection", "Environmental penalty charge and coordinating the work against environmental crime", "Enforcement methods and the role of the enforcement officer" and "Environmental management systems and enforcement".

Swedish environmental legislation
All major environmental legislation in Sweden is assembled into an Environmental Code.

The Council keeps a register on its website of all the ordinances and regulations which are issued pursuant to the Environmental Code and of the general guidelines connected to the code. The register also includes EC ordinances and directives on environmental law as well as information on the implementation of the directives.

The register is published only in Swedish but below we have collected a few links to information in English about the Environmental Code:

On Environmental Sweden, a website run by the Swedish government, you will find more information about Sweden's public work on environmental protection, policy and legislation.