Swedish Fortifications Agency

Swedish Fortifications Agency
Fortifikationsverket
The coat of arms of the Swedish Fortifications Agency
Agency overview
Formed	1994[1]
Preceding agency	Fortifikationsförvaltningen (1948-1994)[1]
Jurisdiction	Government of Sweden
Headquarters	Kungsgatan 43 631 89 Eskilstuna[2]
Employees	689 (as of 2008)[3]
Annual budget	Self-sufficient through fees.[4] Revenue 3.0 billion SEK(2008)[5]
Minister responsible	Anders Borg, (Minister for Finance)[7]
Agency executive	Lena Jönsson, (Director General)[8]
Parent agency	Ministry of Finance[6]
Website
Fortv.se

The Swedish Fortifications Agency (SFA) (Swedish: Fortifikationsverket, abbreviated FortV) is a Swedish government agency under the Swedish Ministry of Finance (Finansdepartementet), tasked with managing government-owned defense-related buildings and land.^[9] The agency functions as the landlord for the Swedish Armed Forces (Försvarsmakten), managing various types of military installations.^[6][10] The SFA is one of the largest holders of real estate in Sweden.^[6]

Function in the government

The formation of the SFA in 1994 was part of the Swedish government effort to increase the cost-efficiency of government real estate usage through a system of internal rent, which was meant to emulate market-like conditions.^[11] The main purpose with the reform was to create economic incentives for the authorities in the public sector to economise on premises.^[12] In the defense sector, the real estate holdings were transferred from the Swedish Armed Forces — the user of the real estate — to the SFA; with the Swedish Armed Forces remaining in the estate as a tenant.^[11]

Currently, the SFA acts as landlord for several Swedish government agencies in the defense sector.^[13] The main tenant is the Swedish Armed Forces, which in 2007 was the source of over 90% of the SFA:s revenue.^[13]

Economy

The SFA does not receive an allowance from the government budget.^[4] Instead, it covers its expenses by charging rent for the real estate it leases.^[4] In 2008, the agency's revenue was 3.0 billion SEK, and its net income 67 million SEK.^[5] The rent is adjusted so that the net income — which goes into the state treasury — conforms to a predefined level of return on equity, as set by the Ministry of Finance.^[14] To finance investments, the SFA borrows money from the National Debt Office (Riksgälden), which acts as the internal bank of the government.^[15]

Personnel

The SFA employed 689 people in 2008.^[3] The majority of the employees work on a local level in real estate units linked to garrisons,^[16] where employees work in areas such as project management, property development and maintenance services.^[17] At the regional and national level, employees work in real estate purchasing and sales, defense facility development, and various management functions.^[17] The SFA considers its core competencies to be security and protective technology.^[18] The agency has stated that it aims to increase the amount of outsourcing, and as an experiment in 2006, it outsourced the property maintenance of two garrisons.^[19]

Karlberg Palace (Karlbergs Slott) in Solna, Stockholm — which houses the Military Academy Karlberg (Militärhögskolan Karlberg) — is one of the properties managed by the SFA.^[20]

Real estate stock

In 2008, the book value of the government real estate stock managed by the SFA was 10.1 billion SEK,^[21] largely consisting of depots, garrisons, training facilities, offices, and proving grounds.^[22] In 2007, the total real estate stock included:^[23]

• 8 000 buildings
• 3.3 million square meters of open space facilities
• 7 700 defense facilities
• 11 airfields
• 380 000 hectares of land, including:
• 100 000 hectares of forest

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Swedish Fortifications Agency: [1]
2. ^ Swedish Fortifications Agency: [2]
3. ^ ^{a b} Swedish Fortifications Agency 2008, p. 18.
4. ^ ^{a b c} Ministry of Finance 2009, p. 5.
5. ^ ^{a b} Swedish Fortifications Agency 2008, p. 38.
6. ^ ^{a b c} Ministry of Finance 2009: [3]
7. ^ Ministry of Finance 2009: [4]
8. ^ Swedish Fortifications Agency: [5]
9. ^ Ministry of Finance 2007
10. ^ Holmström 2008
11. ^ ^{a b} Swedish Agency for Public Management 2004, p. 5-6
12. ^ Lind 2005
13. ^ ^{a b} Swedish Fortifications Agency 2007, p. 12.
14. ^ Ministry of Finance 2009, p. 1.
15. ^ Ministry of Finance 2003
16. ^ Swedish Fortifications Agency 2008, p. 7.
17. ^ ^{a b} Swedish Fortifications Agency: [6]
18. ^ Swedish Fortifications Agency 2008, p. 5.
19. ^ Swedish Fortifications Agency 2007, p. 8.
20. ^ Swedish Fortifications Agency: http://www.fortv.se/templates/Page.aspx?id=215
21. ^ Swedish Fortifications Agency, p. 39.
22. ^ Swedish Fortifications Agency 2007, pp. 18, 20.
23. ^ Swedish Fortifications Agency [7]

References

• Ministry of Finance (2007). "Förordning (2007:758) med instruktion för Fortifikationsverket [Ordinance (2007:758) with regulations for the Swedish Fortifications Agency]" (in Swedish). Svensk Författningssamling. Sveriges Riksdag. http://www.riksdagen.se/webbnav/index.aspx?nid=3911&bet=2007:758. Retrieved 10 July 2009. 
• Swedish Fortifications Agency (2009). "Official webpage" (in Swedish). http://www.fortv.se. Retrieved 10 July 2009. 
• Ministry of Finance (2009). "Official webpage" (in Swedish). Regeringskansliet. http://www.regeringen.se/sb/d/1468. Retrieved 11 July 2009. 
• Ministry of Finance (2009). "Regleringsbrev 2009 [Appropriation directions 2009]" (in Swedish) (pdf). Regeringskansliet. http://www.fortv.se/upload/Dokument/Om%20oss/Regleringsbrev%202009.pdf. Retrieved 11 July 2009. ^{[dead link]}
• Swedish Fortifications Agency (2008). "Årsberättelse 2008 [Annual report 2008]" (in Swedish) (pdf). http://www.fortv.se/upload/Dokument/Om%20oss/arsberattelse_2008.pdf. Retrieved 11 July 2009. ^{[dead link]}
• Swedish Fortifications Agency (2007). "Årsredovisning 2007 [Annual financial report 2007]" (in Swedish) (pdf). http://www.fortv.se/upload/Dokument/År%202007.pdf. Retrieved 12 July 2009. ^{[dead link]}
• Swedish Fortifications Agency (2007). "Årsfakta 2007 [Yearly facts 2007]" (in Swedish) (pdf). http://www.fortv.se/upload/Dokument/Om%20oss/arsfakta2007.pdf. Retrieved 12 July 2009. ^{[dead link]}
• Holmström, Mikael (2008). "Myndigheter och nya förband hotas [Government agencies and new military units endangered]" (in Swedish). Svenska Dagbladet. http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/artikel_1245385.svd. Retrieved 12 July 2009. 
• Ministry of Finance (2003). "Nya principer vid utformning av statsbudgeten [New principles in forming the government budget]" (in Swedish) (pdf). Regeringskansliet. pp. 141–142. http://www.regeringen.se/sb/d/108/a/1815. Retrieved 12 July 2009. 
• Lind, Hans; Ted Lindqvist (2005). "Real estate management in the Swedish public sector". Journal of Corporate Real Estate (Emerald Group Publishing Limited) 7 (2): 178–190. doi:10.1108/14630010510812594. ISSN 1463-001X. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/14630010510812594. Retrieved 17 July 2009. 
• Swedish Agency for Public Management (2004). "Hyressättning och kapitalkostnader för försvarsfastigheter [The setting of rent and the cost of equity in defense related real estate]" (in Swedish) (pdf). Swedish Agency for Public Management. http://www.statskontoret.se/upload/publikationer/2005/2005106.pdf. Retrieved 17 July 2009. 

External links

• Official website