Which services are covered?
The page was last modified:Neither the Services Directive nor other legislation specifies the exact services that are covered. The list below covers the services that the competent Swedish authorities (municipalities, County Administrative Boards and public sector agencies) have identified as currently falling within their remit. A list of services not covered by the Directive is provided at the bottom.
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Municipal authorisations, etc
- Alcohol licence
- Building permit
- Catering
- Chimney-sweeping
- Demolition permits
- Environmental hazardous activities of Type C
- Explosives – use, store, trade in and transfer
- Flammable goods
- Flavouring of schnapps
- Hygienic piercing treatment
- Itinerant street trading
- Medium-strong beer
- Sunbeds
- Swimming pool facilities
- Tastings of alcoholic beverages
- Tobacco products
County Administrative Board authorisations, etc
- Animal husbandry
- Chemical products
- Circus
- Combat sports events
- Food businesses
- Protected live animals, trade
- Registering an interest for commissions in contract archaeology
- Taxidermy
- Temporary exhibition of animals
- Vehicle scrappage
- Wild animals in zoos
- Zoo facility
Central Sectoral Agencies
- Aerial photography
- Aid-assessed secure housing (SoL)
- Alarm installations
- Amusement games
- Animal by-products
- Animal experiment activities
- Blood establishments
- Branches
- Breed societies and registrering association
- Car hire (rental)
- Cash register certification
- Certain pipelines
- Certificate issuers for financial plans
- Certified Public Accountant
- Cisterns and pipelines for inflammable liquids
- Commercial trade in second-hand goods
- Companion service (LSS)
- Conduct a driving school
- Conduct driving training for moped class II, snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles
- Conduct introduction training for private driving training, class B (for companies)
- Control of microbiological criteria in food
- Customs warehouse, permit (operation)
- Daily activities (LSS)
- Debt collection activities
- Economic association/co-operative
- Electric power lines
- Electrical installation company
- Embryo operations
- Explosives – manufacturing and destruction
- Explosives – transfer (intra community and within Sweden) and import
- Fish auctions
- Fireworks
- Fluorinated greenhouse gases (f-gases)
- Food and nutrition laboratories
- Goods dangerous to health
- Hallmarking of precious metals
- Home care (SoL)
- Homes for care or residence (HVB) (SoL)
- Homes for certain other in-patient care 'short-term housing' (SoL)
- Hotel and guesthouse operations
- Housing with special services for adults (LSS)
- Housing with special services for children and young people (LSS)
- Housing with special services for people with functional impairments (LSS)
- Hydrographic information
- Hydrographic survey
- Import of weapons
- Insemination activities
- Inspection of assembly tents
- Inspection of funfair facilities
- Laboratory animals
- Lasers
- Limited company
- Lockpicking devices
- Marketing of agricultural seed
- Marketing of forest reproductive material
- Microwave drying
- Narcotics
- Natural gas pipelines
- Nautical charts
- Non-institutional care/day activities (SoL)
- Non-prescription (over-the-counter) medicines
- Non-therapeutic male circumcision
- PCB products
- Personal assistance (LSS)
- Personal contact service (LSS)
- Postal activities
- Public gatherings
- Public functions
- Registered public accounting firm
- Relief service in the home (LSS)
- Service with counsellor support for family homes and emergency foster homes that receive children
- Short period of supervision for schoolchildren over the age of 12 (LSS)
- Short term stay away from home (LSS)
- Slaughter of farmed game
- Slaughter of poultry
- Sole trader
- Special housing types for the elderly (SoL)
- Supported housing (SoL)
- Tissue establishments
- Trade in technical spirits and alcoholic preparations
- Trade in weapons
- Trading partnerships
- Travel agents, tour operators
- Warehouses for storage in transit
- Wine producer
- Wood measurement act
Services not covered
- Financial services
- Security services
- Electronic communication services
- Audiovisual services
- Transport services
- Healthcare services
- Gambling activities
- Taxation
Responsible: Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth