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Environmental Advisory Council (MVB)

Miljövårdsberedningen

Sweden - Governmental organisation

The Swedish Environmental Advisory Council advises the Government on environmental issues. The Council, composed of 22 members mainly from the scientific community, is chaired by the Minister for the Environment, Lena Sommestad, since 21 November 2002.

The Council serves as a platform for discussions on environmental policies and sustainable development. Established in 1968, it has played an important role over the years as a forum for debate on strategic environmental issues.

Since spring 2003 the Council focuses on two clusters and have formed working groups for those. One cluster is on the sustainable use and management of natural resources and includes agriculture, forestry and fishery. During 2004 this working group has looked at marine issues and especially eutrophication. The work resulted in a paper with recommendations to the Government "A Strategy for Ending Eutrophication of Seas and Coasts" (Memorandum 2005:1). Since spring 2005 the group has been working on sustainable fisheries. In Febuary 2006 the working group came out with a Memorandum on a sustainable fisheries strategy.

www.sou.gov.se/mvb

s i v . n a s l u n d @ s u s t a i n a b l e . m i n i s t r y . s e

Stockholm
103 33
Sweden

Tel: 08-405 10 00
Fax: 08-20 43 31

Contacts:

Henrik Österblom
Email: h e n r i k . o s t e r b l o m @ s u s t a i n a b l e . m i n i s t r y . s e

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