The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency is the national agency for environmental protection and nature conservation, as well as outdoor recreation and hunting issues. Its key tasks are to present proposals for environmental policy and legislation to the Swedish Government and ensure that environmental policy decisions are implemented.

The Swedish EPA’s strategies are based on research results, with an annual budget of SEK 85 million to finance research in support of its work.

Further information can be found on the research page of the Swedish EPA website.

The Swedish EPA is the network communications objective leader.