State Ownership Policy 2025
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The Swedish Government adopted the policy below for state-owned enterprises on 20 February 2025. This policy replaces the previous state ownership policy adopted on 27 February 2020.
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State-owned enterprises, which are ultimately owned by the Swedish people, make up a significant part of the business sector in Sweden.
The Government must actively manage state-owned enterprises so as to ensure the best possible long-term economic value performance from them, and to ensure that their public policy assignments, decided by the Riksdag, are performed well. State-owned enterprises have to act on a commercial basis, sustainably, and in an exemplary manner that safeguards public trust.
In this ownership policy, the Government sets out important principles and overriding objectives for the management and governance of state-owned enterprises. Where this ownership policy refers to ‘the owner’, it is referring to the State in its role as the sole or part owner of an enterprise.
