On the Swedish Enforcement Authority’s procedures for enforcing fines imposed by the administrative courts

Summary of the decision: In this case, the Parliamentary Ombudsman reviewed the Swedish Enforcement Authority’s handling of a case after the administrative court imposed a fine on application from the emergency services. The Parliamentary Ombudsman deals with the differences in enforcing fines imposed by a general court and administrative court respectively. In light of this, she notes that one can reasonably assume that an administrative court that sends notification to the Swedish Enforcement Authority that such a decision has become final intends to seek collection, even if this is not explicitly stated.

Among other things, the Parliamentary Ombudsman underlines that there appear to be certain implementation problems associated with how decisions to impose a fine are enforced and believes that there may be reason to consider whether the current system is the most appropriate. She therefore sends a copy of the decision to the Government for information.