Environmental Protection Agency (Sweden)
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Naturvårdsverket's coat of arms.
The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdsverket) is a Swedish government agency responsible for proposing and implementing environmental policies. It was founded in 1967 and reports to the Swedish Ministry of the Environment.
The following is a summary of Sweden's Sixteen Environmental Quality Objectives, (verbatim from the agency's own website, July, 2008.):[1]
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