Environment committee  Thank you very much.

Environment committee  It's 13 Swedish kronor per litre. Is that $5 per litre?

Environment committee  We have that here as well. I know your system is different, but we have organized the government authorities in a way that helps the communication between ministries. I also believe we have focused very much on sector integration, and that, I believe, is a key. If the system is s

Environment committee  These are politically formulated objectives. It is mainly for the politicians to actually show that this is for real. Then, when it comes to the county administrative boards, they get some extra resources, of course, to work within this system. That also goes for the central gove

Environment committee  We have ethanol production in I think two industries in Sweden. I think we also import a lot. I must say this is not my area of expertise, so I'm sorry if I can't answer. I can definitely get back to you with more specific figures on how we're doing it and in what amounts.

Environment committee  I can try, and if not I can get back to you.

Environment committee  We have very good experiences from carbon taxes. I think that's what we evaluate as the most important instrument used to reduce our emissions of carbon dioxide. Of course we also discuss the cap-and-trade that's used in the EU emissions system, but at the moment we are working t

Environment committee  They go into the state budget.

Environment committee  They're not earmarked. Yes.

Environment committee  For one, we see that we need to be a good example. We need to show it's possible to decouple emissions from environmental growth. It's possible to still have environmental growth and reduce emissions, and we've proved it is possible. And then we also believe we need to change in

Environment committee  I'll start with the question on the regional level. Our environmental quality objectives have no formal legal status. They are policy objectives, although they are adopted by a majority of the Parliament. At the regional level, the county administrative boards are responsible fo

Environment committee  Definitely. They are sometimes integrated into the environmental quality objective system such that they are interim targets, because the EU directives are usually very specific that pollution needs to be reduced, for example, and then they are integrated into the system as inter

Environment committee  Well, this is not my area of expertise. We have a lot of biofuels, of course, bioenergy. Of course you also know that we have had a lot of nuclear power, since a couple of years ago. To limit the carbon dioxide, we have used taxes, economic instruments. We have a price on carbon

Environment committee  I must say it hasn't really been an issue. All the authorities and the departments have been very active in this process. With the change from the system we had before, with the very poor follow-up and very unclear responsibility, everyone needed a change, so it has been quite ea

Environment committee  We have defined 16 enviromental quality objectives. They are more like visions--for example, no climate change, clean air, natural acidification only. They're more like visions. But then we have interim targets to guide the more practical everyday work, which state the kind of na