Monday, January 23, 2017

Karensregler proposed for the minister.

Sweden has received criticism for the absence of rules for when the ministers and state secretaries go directly to a new job in the business world. Now suggest to an investigator the introduction of karensregler.

Civilminister Ardalan Shekarabi want new karensregler for the minister who starts a new job in the private sector. Arkivbild.Image: Jonas Ekströmer/TT

the Rules to prevent the risks arising from conflicts of interest when a minister or secretary of state received a new assignment.

the Ministers and state secretaries must, in accordance with the proposal, notify in advance all assignments and held positions in other than the state agency that they plan to start within twelve months after they have stopped. This should be reported to a special committee that gets to three weeks to determine if there are conflicts of interest.

the Board can then decide that the person in question must have a waiting period of up to one year or that he or she may not work with certain substances over a period of time. Conflicts of interest can involve financial harm or competition.

But just as important are the risks that may exist for förtroendeskada. There is every reason to take seriously, ” says the investigator Sten Heckscher.

As an example, he takes the former minister of economic affairs Björn Rosengren (S) that went to the Kinnevik sphere.

He had possibly been required to restrictions of förtroendeskäl, ” says Heckscher.

Despite the fact that there will be a specific law on this, and it thus becomes illegal to not notify the mission or not following the board’s decision, so there are no sanctions.

– We believe that it is not needed, then dragged it in place before you”, says Sten Heckscher and aimed at the journalists.

Ardalan Shekarabi says that the commission’s proposal to remissbehandlas as soon as possible and that the intention is to make decisions in the legislature.

“this is important to safeguard trust in public institutions,” he says.

Council of europe bodies for korruptionsövervakning has previously recommended Sweden to impose such rules on this.

the Facts: the Proposal

a Special law which imposes on the departing minister and experiences to notify of new jobs outside the state to the special committee.

the Board shall, within three weeks to examine the risk of conflicts of interest on the basis of the risk of economic damage, favoritism, and the risk of förtroendeskada.

the Board can introduce the twelve months of the karens before the employment may commence.

the Board can also impose ämnesrestriktion, which means that employment may begin but that some issues may not be handled the first twelve months.

the Law contains no penalties.

Source: SOU 2017:3

Background: They went to business

most of the OECD member countries, regulations have been introduced to avoid conflicts of interest.

There are plenty of former minister quickly ended up in the business within the same profession as they previously had responsibility for. The former prime minister Göran Persson (S), who criticised the people to go from politics to business, became a consultant on the kommunikationsfirman JKL and sits today in several company boards, including as chairman of Sveaskog.

Former minister of finance, Anders Borg (M) became an adviser to Citigroup, one of the world’s largest financial organizations. The previous tax and the minister of economic affairs Thomas Östros (S) became the managing director of the Swedish bankers ‘ Association.

The former finance minister Pär Nuder (S) is the adviser of the venture capital company EQT, and the last minister of enterprise and energy Maud Olofsson (C) is in day of the professional board with place in, among others, LKAB, Diös and Visita.

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