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The '''government agencies''' in [[Sweden]] are state-controlled organizations that act independently to carry out the policies of the [[Government of Sweden]]. The [[List of Swedish ministries|ministries]] are relatively small and merely policy-making organizations, allowed to monitor the agencies and preparing decision and policy papers for the government as a collective body to decide upon. 

A Cabinet Minister is [[Ministerial governance|explicitly prohibited from interfering]] with the day-to-day operation in an agency or the outcome in individual cases. The cardinal rule is that Ministers are not allowed to issue orders to agencies in their portfolio personally (with only a few exceptions) as the government agencies are subject to decisions made by the government, although the government cannot even directly overrule an agency in the handling of an individual case.

Other than the executive branch, the [[Riksdag]] also has a number of independent agencies.

== Riksdag ==

*[[Sveriges Riksbank|Riksbank]], Sweden's [[central bank]].
*[[Swedish National Audit Office|National Audit Office]] ({{lang|sv|Riksrevisionen}}) — the [[International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions|supreme audit institution]] of Sweden.
*The [[Parliamentary Ombudsman]] ({{lang|sv|Justitieombudsmannen}}).

== Ministry of Justice ==
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{{Government agencies of the Ministry of Justice (Sweden)}}

== Ministry for Foreign Affairs ==
{{main|Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Sweden)}}
{{Government agencies of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Sweden)}}

== Ministry of Defence ==
{{main|Ministry of Defence (Sweden)}}
{{Government agencies of the Ministry of Defence (Sweden)}}

== Ministry of Employment ==
{{main|Ministry of Employment (Sweden)}}
{{Government agencies of the Ministry of Employment (Sweden)}}

== Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation ==
{{main|Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation (Sweden)}}
{{Government agencies of the Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications (Sweden)}}
{{Government agencies of the Ministry of Agriculture (Sweden)}}

== Ministry of Health and Social Affairs ==
{{main|Ministry of Health and Social Affairs (Sweden)}}
{{Government agencies of the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs (Sweden)}}

== Ministry of Finance ==
{{main|Ministry of Finance (Sweden)}}
{{Government agencies of the Ministry of Finance (Sweden)}}

== Ministry of Education and Research ==
{{Main|Ministry of Education and Research (Sweden)}}
{{Government agencies of the Ministry of Education and Research (Sweden)}}

== Ministry of Culture ==
{{main|Ministry of Culture (Sweden)}}
{{Government agencies of the Ministry of Culture (Sweden)}}

== Ministry of the Environment ==
{{main|Ministry of the Environment (Sweden)}}
{{Government agencies of the Ministry of the Environment (Sweden)}}

== Ministry of Infrastructure ==
{{main|Ministry of Infrastructure (Sweden)}}
{{Government agencies of the Ministry of Infrastructure (Sweden)}}

== Defunct agencies ==
Some historic government agencies have been merged with other agencies or simply closed down.

*[[Aliens Appeals Board of Sweden]], or ''Utlänningsnämnden, UN''. Discontinued and replaced by [[Migration Courts]] on 31 March 2006, when the new Aliens Act entered into force.
*[[Swedish National Board of Education]], or ''Skolöverstyrelsen'', governed primary and secondary schools. Was replaced by the [[Swedish National Agency for Education]] in 1991 when the responsibility for schools was transferred from the state to the municipalities.
*[[Swedish National Board of Universities and Colleges]], or ''Universitets- och högskoleämbetet'', was responsible for higher education until 1992 when the central agency was abolished. It was replaced with an agency with a considerably more limited field of operations, the [[Office of the Chancellor of the Swedish Universities]], or ''Kanslersämbetet''. The [[Swedish National Agency for Higher Education]] was set up on 1 July 1995, incorporating the Office of the Chancellor, the Council for the Renewal of Undergraduate Education (''Grundutbildningsrådet'') and parts of the [[Swedish National Agency for Services to Universities]].
*[[Swedish National Integration Board]], or ''Integrationsverket''. Located in [[Norrköping]]. Field of operations: The Swedish Integration Board to ensure that the visions and goals of Sweden's integration policies have an impact in the various areas of society. Closed down on 1 July 2007.
*[[Swedish National Plant Variety Board]], or ''Statens växtsortnämnd''. Field of operations: issues relating to plant breeding and the admission of plants into the different classification lists. Made a part of the [[Swedish National Board of Agriculture]] on 1 January 2006.
*[[Swedish National Public Transport Agency]], or ''Rikstrafiken'' on 1 April 2010.
*The Railway Safety Fencing Board ({{langx|sv|Stängselnämnden}}) was a government agency responsible for settling conflicts between [[Municipalities of Sweden|municipalities]] and [[rail transport]] companies regarding the building of [[fence]]s along railways.<ref name="thelocal">{{cite news |last=Landes |first=David |date=11 February 2008 |title=Agency disbanded for not mending enough fences |url=http://www.thelocal.se/9949/20080211/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111121060918/http://www.thelocal.se/9949/20080211/ |archive-date=21 November 2011 |access-date=21 November 2011 |newspaper=[[The Local]]}}</ref> The board existed 1976—2008. It only decided in one case, which occurred in 1977.<ref name=thelocal/>
*[[Swedish Seed Testing and Certification Institute]], or ''Statens utsädeskontroll''. Field of operations: seed testing. Made a part of the [[Swedish National Board of Agriculture]] on 1 January 2006.
*[[Statens institut för rasbiologi|The State Institute for Racial Biology]] or ''Statens institut för rasbiologi''. Field of operations: studying eugenics and human genetics. Established in 1922 and changed to ''State Institute for Human Genetics'' in 1958 and merged into [[Uppsala University]].

== See also ==
*[[List of Swedish government enterprises]]
* [[Government agencies in Iceland]]
* [[Government agencies in Norway]]

==References==
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* [https://www.government.se/government-agencies/ Current Government Agencies] on [[Government of Sweden|Government's]] website
* [https://www.svenskförfattningssamling.se/sites/default/files/sfs/2019-03/SFS2019-122.pdf Governmental ordinance] (in Swedish) listing agencies affiliation per ministry

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