Topic summary
Ministerial governance
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Ministerial rule.
The principle of ministerial governance came under debate in 2021, when the Cementa company, which produces most of the cement used in Sweden from a mine on Gotland, failed to get a permission to continue mining. The environmental agencies delayed the case repeatedly by issuing new interpretations of the vague environmental law, including during court trials. Facing risk of blocking a large part of Swedish industrial activities, the government made a temporary exception to the law, getting criticism of overruling an agency decision, ministerial governance.