Sweden?s animal legislation was adopted in 1988 and is one of the most rigorous legislations in the world. Despite this, Sweden import beef from countries where animal legislation is not in accordance to the Swedish legislation. The meat consumption in Sweden has, just like the importation of beef, increased while Sweden?s own beef production has decreased.

The United Nations has, during many years, developed a model for a globally harmonized system for classification and labeling of chemicals, with the aim of it becoming a global standard. This system is implemented in the European Union through the CLP-regulation and is now working parallel to the existing directives until 1st of June 2015, when all the new classifications of substances and mixtures must be completed. The aim of this project was to adjust the laboratory to the new legislation, through inventory of stored chemicals, update the list of chemicals and perform self-classifications of mixtures. The work included handling of about 650 different chemicals with varying hazard classifications and search for information in corporate websites and chemical databases. This resulted in a new and complete list of chemicals stored and used in the laboratory and, in addition, an example of how to make a self classification of a mixture.

This thesis deals with the legislative problem of thin and thick capitalization of subsidiary companies situated abroad. This kind of companies are often used for tax planning purposes, as means for transferring company profit from a high tax state to a low tax state. Today, the legislative flora around the world mainly focuses on the question"how low/high can the capitalization level of the company be, before thin/thick capitalization can be considered to be at hand?". Instead, this thesis raises the question"how far from the optimal capitalization rate is a probable capitalization level for a company, and can this be an alternative approach to legislation?".

AbstractThe subject for this thesis is the Swedish gaming monopoly. This thesis describes the Swedish legislation that regulates the market for gaming in Sweden. The European legislation is also explained in the thesis; both the rules in the EC treaty and the rulings made by the EC court of justice (ECJ). The purpose with this is to see if the Swedish legislation can be upheld considering the rules set up by EC law. The second part of the thesis is focused on the actuality of the problem and the future possibilities for the regulation.

This essay examines the process of fair value accounting of financial assets in a Swedish commercial bank, in contrast to the theoretical approach stated by IASB. The theoretical background contains a review of the academic standpoint on fair value accounting and historical cost accounting, a detailed description of fair value accounting according to current and future IASB regulation and on the American FAS 157 regulation. The empirical case study describes the process of valuing and classifying financial assets into level 1 and level 2 of the fair value hierarchy. The analysis describes how the legal requirements for classification are interpreted and applied in practice when valuing bonds and derivatives. The authors provide an explanation as to why the majority of financial assets are valued mark to model rather than mark to market as well as a suggestion on how the share of market valued assets can be increased..

Through the rulings RÅ 2010 ref. 11, HFD 2011 ref. 75 and HFD 2011 not 88 the Swedish Supreme Administrative Court have extended the concept of same or similar activities which can be found in section 57, clause 4 of the Swedish Income Tax Act. Through the ruling the Court has partly clarified the application area of the regulation but question marks still remains.In the statutory text there is no definition of what shall be regarded as same or similar activity and the preparatory work does not give any further direction on how the concept should be interpreted. Ever since the amendment in 1995 the general view has been that activities can be transferred between different companies without affecting the waiting period in the company of origin.

In recent years, several scandals have been revealed where public employees been involved. Some researchers argue, moreover, that the NPM's rampage has led to an increase in the risk of corruption in public administration. The Regulation on Internal Control shall, according to the government, lead to adequate protection against corruption by analyzing and managing risks. However, Riksrevisionen have criticized the authorities' protection against corruption to be too unstructured and unsystematic. In addition, they questioned whether the regulation really has significance in the work against corruption.

Anknytningsbegreppet är aktuellt inom flertalet barn? och familjerelaterade områden. Mitt syfte med den här studien har varit att se hur föräldrar till internationellt adopterade barn har upplevt anknytnings? och omsorgsprocessen i förhållande till sitt/sina barn. Mina frågeställningar har varit: Hur har man som adoptivförälder upplevt anknytnings? och omsorgsprocessen mellan sig och barnet? Hur har man upplevt att barnet knutit an? Hur har man som adoptivförälder gått tillväga för att utforma en förälder?barn relation mellan sig och barnet? I vilken utsträckning upplever man att man har fått det stöd och den handledning man har behövt från myndigheter och andra aktörer? Hur mottog omgivningen beskedet att man skulle bli förälder genom internationell adoption? Har dessa eventuella reaktioner påverkat föräldrarna? Jag har intervjuat sex föräldrar som genom internationell adoption har fått barn under 1970?, 80?, 90? och/eller 2000?talet.

Barnhälsovården i Sverige ska vara en resurs för alla familjer med barn upp till skolåldern. Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur adoptivföräldrar respektive biologiska föräldrar upplevde kontakten med barnhälsovården, vilka förväntningar de hade på barnhälsovården samt vilka olika insatser de blivit erbjudna. Dessutom undersöktes om föräldragrupperna hade olika behov när det gällde kontakten med barnhälsovården och hur de upplevde att deras behov uppfyllts. Studien är av kvalitativ design och intervjuer har genomförts både individuellt och i grupp med biologiska föräldrar och adoptivföräldrar.Resultatet visar att adoptivföräldrar förväntade sig och erbjöds färre insatser från barnhälsovården än biologiska föräldrar. En stor skillnad mellan grupperna var hur snart de träffade distriktssköterskan efter hemkomst med sitt barn, och hur ofta de besökte barnavårdscentralen.

The overriding purpose of this graduate thesis is to evaluate if municipalities and county councils can deviate from the legislation of public procurement during procurement of customer choice agreements within the health and social care area. The intention of this Quasi-market is to provide the users with competition in terms of quality rather then the general principal rule of economic value.My conclusion results in a legal situation without rules of general procedure. So far the authorities make their own regulation in the field of customer choice agreements. The problem lies within the authorization of new contractors and their right to make an appeal against resolutions made by the authorities social care divisions.One solution is to legislate within the present law of public procurement. Another way to solve the problem is to create a lex specialis apart from the present public procurement regulation..

This thesis provides a comparison of the old Planning and Building act (PBA) from 1987 with the new PBA, which entered into force in May 2011. The essay consists of a descriptive part that presents the regulation of both laws. The new PBA consists of several differences compared to previous regulation. This thesis will, however, primarily be centred around the regulation regarding building permit appeals and the possibility of building permit, to gain legal force.In the old PBL, there were no regulations that result in a building permit decision could be made effective. Instead, a building permit could, long after the decision had been made, be over-challenged.

Ett projektstyrningsverktyg som fått stor uppmärksamhet i den akademiska världen och av branschorganisationer är Earned Value Management (EVM). EVM beskrivs av forskare och praktiker som överlägsen andra metoder där det bland annat bevisats att EVM har en signifikant påverkan på ett projekts framgång. Metoden är standard i ett flertal länder men få svenska organisationer förutom vissa svenska myndigheter har adopterat EVM. Syftet med studien är att undersöka motiven till adoption eller avvisande av EVM i stora svenska organisationer för att skapa en bättre förståelse av adoptionsprocessen. För att uppnå syftet genomfördes kvalitativa telefonintervjuer med sex adopterande och fyra avvisande organisationer.

Sweden has an obligation to report child abuse suspicions to Social Services. According to Socialtjänstlagen (swedish constitution) 1 § Chapter 14, all employees in agencies affecting children, such as schools, have a responsibility to report their suspicions. Research shows that many abuses are not reported. The consequence of this is that Social Services does not hear about all cases of abused and harmed children. One profession where reporting is mandated is school counselors.

Denna studie syftar till att lyfta fram de faktorer som påverkar de adopterades livsprocess och visa vad som är avgörande för att skapa en trygg identitet. För att besvara frågeställningen har vi genomfört tio intervjuer och tagit del av en självbiografi och en självrapport. Vi har genomfört denna studie med grundad teori som metodologiskt angreppssätt, vilket innebär att vår frågeställning har vuxit fram ur datamaterialet. Resultatet visar att de faktorer som har påverkat internationellt adopterades livsprocess är en trygg kärna, att kärlek är tjockare än blod, omgivningens stöd, tacksamhet, svenskhet, adoptionens minimala betydelse, bristande intresse, öppenhet till adoptionen, anknytning till födelselandet, ambivalens inför adoptionen, adoptionens maximala betydelse och tillskrivningar kopplat till adoption. Avgörande för att skapa en trygg identitet är en trygg kärna, villkorslös kärlek, stöd från omgivningen och en svensk tillhörighet.

The purpose with this essay is to examine if the Swedish government?s intentions regarding to the mental health care reform, have been fulfilled. We have classified the intentions into three categories, regulation, financing and responsibility for organizing the policy. The intentions have then been compared with the results of the reform.Our theoretical framework starts with a model, developed by Evert Vedung (1998). We use this model as a tool to examine the fulfillment of the mental health care reform.