Infrastructure for spatial information
§ 1 in Sweden be an infrastructure with a
coherent system of access to and exchange of
geographical information in electronic form and that is
useful for activities and actions that may affect the
human health or the environment (geo-environmental information).
section 2 of The Swedish system for spatial environmental information shall
be a part of the corresponding information systems available in the
The European Union.
The Government will designate an authority responsible for the
Swedish system are coordinated and linked to the Union's
System.
section 3 of the territorial environmental information shall in the case of sites
or geographical areas refer to
1. coordinate-based reference systems for positioning,
2. geographical grid systems
3. place names and other geographical names,
4. administrative divisions,
5. addresses,
6. real estate areas,
7. infrastructure for transport,
8. water areas, river basins and other hydrographic,
9. protected areas,
10. height-and depth conditions,
11. the ground cover,
12. pictures of the Earth's surface (orthophotos),
13. geological conditions,
14. statistical units,
15. the location of buildings,
16. the composition of the soil,
17. land and water use,
18. the relationship between human health and the environment,
19. facilities and places of public utility and public
services,
20. facilities and sites for environmental monitoring,
21. production and industrial facilities as well as storage facilities,
22. plants in agriculture or aquaculture;
23. population distribution,
24. the conditions which justify a special management,
settlement or reporting;
25. floods, landslides, erosion, avalanches, forest fires
or other risks arising from nature's impact,
26. atmospheric conditions,
27. the meteorological and hydrological conditions;
28. the physical conditions of seas and other salt water,
29. the areas of relatively homogeneous ecological conditions
with similar characteristics (biogeographic region),
30. habitats and biotopes,
31. species distribution,
32. energy resources, or
33. mineral deposits.
4 section With information management service referred to in this law, a
ability to electronically search, view or download
information, to electronically transform or process the
information or to electronically link the different ones
functions with each other.
Information responsibilities
section 5 to the extent permitted by rules in connection
to this law authorities, municipalities and individual bodies
performing public administrative tasks involved in the
coherent system for spatial environmental information through
to keep such information and information management services
available to other participating in or using the system
(information responsibilities).
In the case of municipal public information responsibilities, regulations under the
the first subparagraph shall refer to only information which municipalities are obliged
to collect or disseminate information regarding under other law or
regulations that have been issued with the support of other teams or to
as a result of Sweden's membership in the European Union.
section 6, any person who is responsible according to § 5 shall develop and
provide information in electronic form which describes
the geographical environment information and
information management services associated with the information
(metadata).
Metadata must relate to the information and the content,
emergence and topicality, how to find and use them, and
how they are presented, and operates or is intended to operate in
the coherent information system.
Metadata should be integrated with the information and services
so it makes it easier to search and use.
Voluntary participation
section 7 of the Government or the authority that the Government may
in each case decide that someone who is not
responsible according to the regulations in connection with the
This law may participate in the continuous system for
geographic environmental information.
Fees
§ 8 the person responsible may charge fees to
provide geographic environmental information and
information management services.
The Government or the authority that the Government may
provide for
1. grounds for withdrawal of the charges, and
2. restrictions on the right to collect fees and other conditions
for the provision.
A municipality may levy charges according to the grounds of the municipality
decide, subject to the rules referred to
in the second subparagraph of paragraph 2.
Regulations on information and on cooperation
§ 9 the Government may provide for
1. local and individual organs information responsibilities under paragraph 5 of the
as well as how information responsibility to be divided between them, and
2. duties of local authorities and individual agencies which fulfill
public administrative functions in terms of geographical
environmental information, information management services and metadata
cooperate with each other and with other participants in the system of
geographic environmental information.
Limitations of information management responsibilities
section 10 Provisions on confidentiality in the public activities and
in some individual agencies can be found in public and
secrecy (2009:400).
The provisions of section 11, section 12, paragraphs 13 and 14 of the other
paragraph, this Act does not apply to such individual bodies referred to in
the first paragraph.
section 11 when an individual body referred to in paragraph 5 fulfils its
information responsibilities through an information management service
makes it possible to electronically search the metadata of geographic
environmental information and information management services,
public access to metadata is limited only to the extent
that access could harm international relations, General
security or national defence.
12 § When a Government, a municipality or a private body which
referred to in paragraph 5 fulfils its information responsibilities through a
information management service that makes it possible to
electronic viewing or downloading geographic environmental information
or metadata, to electronically transform or process the
information or to electronically link the different ones
functions with each other, get public access to
geographic environmental information and metadata is limited to the extent
that access could damage intellectual property rights.
When any single body referred to in paragraph 5 fulfils its
information responsibilities through such information management services
referred to in the first subparagraph, the public's access to
geographic environmental information and metadata is also limited in the
so far as access
1. can harm international relations, public security
or total defense,
2. can cause damage for a regulatory activity for
inspection, control or other oversight or an authority
opportunities to prevent or prosecute crimes;
3. refers to commercial or industrial information and
the disclosure is likely to mean that an individual suffers from economic
damage,
4. concerning personal data and disclosure may include but
for those to which it relates, if it has not given its
consent to disclosure,
5. can damage an individual's personal interests, if he
provided the requested information without being obliged
to do so by law or regulation, unless this
person consented to disclosure,
or
6. can have negative consequences for the protection of the environment
information relates.
13 § public access to geographic and environmental information
metadata may not be limited
1. pursuant to section 11 or 12, if it is obvious that the task
have such importance from an environmental point of view that the interest of the public
knowledge of task outweighs the interests referred to in
section 11 or 12, or
2. with the support of 12 section 3 – 6, if the information relates to
emissions into the environment.
section 14 When a Government, a municipality or a single body under
regulations relating to this Act fulfills an obligation
to collaborate on geographic environmental information
information management services, or metadata, the performance
be limited to other cooperating government agencies, municipalities
or bodies to the extent that the performance can damage the intellectual property
rights.
When a single body to fulfil a duty to cooperate,
the performance is limited beyond that referred to in the first subparagraph
against the cooperating authorities, municipalities and other bodies
only to the extent that the performance
1. can harm international relations, public security
or total defense, or
2. can cause damage for a regulatory activity for
inspection, control or other oversight or an authority
opportunities to prevent or repress the crime.
section 15/expires U: 2016-05-01/
Provisions on
1. the processing of personal data in the personal data Act
(1998:204),
2. the processing of personal data in the land registry, see
Act (2000:224) on cadastre,
3. authorisation for the creation of databases with
landscape information as well as for the dissemination of maps and other
compilations of landscape information, law
(1993:1742) on protection of the provincial information,
4. Security, see Security Act (1996:627), and
5. Copyright Act (1960:729) on copyright in
literary and artistic works.
With regard to the processing of personal data in accordance with this law
does not apply to section 2 of the personal data Act (1998:204).
the entry into force of section 15/in: 2016-05-01/
Provisions on
1. the processing of personal data in the personal data Act (1998:204),
2. the processing of personal data in the Land Registry Act (2000:224) on cadastre,
3. the requirement of authorisation for dissemination of a summary of geographical information, Act (2016:319) on the protection of geographical information,
4. Security, see Security Act (1996:627), and
5. Copyright Act (1960:729) on copyright in literary and artistic works.
With regard to the processing of personal data under this Act does not apply to section 2 of the personal data Act (1998:204).
Law (2016:321).
