Sweden regulations

Sweden. In Sweden strict regulations of beverage consumption are more or less similar to those in Norway. Retail sales of normal beers (ale 4.3 vol %) and spirits are possible through government controlled stores (Systembolaget AB) only. The per capita consumption of beer was 51.4 L in 1987. 

Hogstrand, C. 1991. Regulation of metallothionein in teleost fish during exposure. Ph.D. dissertation. Univ. Goteborg, Goteborg, Sweden. 176 pp. 

Skanska, one of the world s largest construction companies with 75 000 employees and activities world-wide, are stating that operating for many years under substitution regulation in Sweden has lead them to "...continuously seek less harmful alternatives. This is something that our clients expect from us as a producer of buildings or infrastructure. As we are not experts on the components in our products, we have to go back to our suppliers with the requests that our clients put on us. As manufacturers of building components they will have to go back to their suppliers etc. This is the way we want the market to work in order to reduce the environmental impact."... 

In fact, the collective construction industry in Sweden strongly advocates an EU-wide substitution regulation. 

Applicants are free to solicit advice from individual Member States and according to various surveys conducted by the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations, they often do. Apart from the FDA, these surveys reveal, the EU Member States most often consulted are Germany, France, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Flowever, it is often important to secure a pan-European advice. Article 51 of Council Regulation EEC/2309/93 requires the EMEA to provide the Member States and the institutions of the Commimity with the best possible scientific advice on any question relating to the evaluation of the quality, the safety and the efficacy of medicinal products for human... 

It should be stressed that this inquiry about the fate of the pioneers of free radical chemistry in the hands of the Nobel committee is based solely on a search of the Nobel Archive of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden. Although in principle no other written material, such as letters exchanged between committee members, should exist outside the archives (Section 8 in the Special Regulations at that time stated The proceedings, verdicts and proposals of the Nobel-Committees with reference to the prize-distribution shall not be published or in any other way be made known , much later to be replaced by the rule that the Nobel Archive should be made available for research of material fifty years old), it cannot be dismissed that such material with relation to free radical chemistry may possibly be found. The many references to correspondence between commit-... 

Robert Nilsson, Science and Politics in the Regulation of Chemicals in Sweden ... 

Many overly stringent Swedish regulations impose burdens on the country s citizens and harm the economy, while providing no or little improvement in health, safety, or the environment. Other countries, considering the possible effects of tying their policies to the PP, should study its effects in Sweden. 

The absence of judicial review and of independent, external scrutiny of regulatory agencies, combined with the small size and relative political impotence of Sweden s chemical industry and the strong anti-industry sentimentin important parts ofthe public sector, have produced overzealous regulation of chemicals. This state of affairs is almost perfectly demonstrated in the following example. 

Pesticide regulation is another area where Sweden wants to avoid direct confrontation with the EU Commission, while trying to evade EU regulations. Annex VI to the EU s uniform principles for evaluation and authorization of plant protection products (iCouncil Directive on the Placing of Plant Protection Products on the Market, (91/414/EEC) requires that exposure assessments be... 

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