(Parliamentary) Committee on Environment and Agriculture[1] (Swedish: miljö- och jordbruksutskottet) (MJU) is a parliamentary committee in the Swedish Riksdag. The committee's main areas of responsibility are the Swedish agricultural industry, agriculture, forestry, policies surrounding gardening, hunting, fishing, and weather forecasting. The committee also handles other matters such as the safety of nuclear power, nature conservation, and environmental protection, along with other matters that do not concern any other of the seventeen committees. Before the 1998/1999 opening of the Riksdag, was the name of the committee Jordbruksutskottet (Committee on Agriculture)[2]
The committee's Speaker is Emma Nohrén, from the Green Party, and the vice-Speaker is Kjell-Arne Ottosson from the Christian Democrats.
The Committee on Agriculture was created in 1909 after the decision of the king and the Riksdag, and took over the tasks that were given to the State Committee and the Law Committee. During the time that Sweden was a bicameral state, there were 16 members of parliament serving in the committee from both chambers. The first meeting of the committee was in 1910.
| Name | Period | Political party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor= | 1910–1911 | Protectionist Party | |||
| bgcolor= | 1912–1915 | Liberal Coalition Party (Liberala samlingspartiet) | |||
| bgcolor= | 1916–1918 | Free-minded National Association | |||
| bgcolor= | 1918 | Social Democratic Party | |||
| bgcolor= | 1919–1922 | Freeminded People's Party | |||
| bgcolor= | 1922–1927 | Social Democratic Party | |||
| bgcolor= | 1940s and 1950s | Farmers' League (Bondeförbundet) | |||
| bgcolor= | 1974-1985 | Centre Party | |||
| bgcolor= | 1985–1991 | Centre Party | |||
| bgcolor= | 1991–1992 | Social Democratic Party | |||
| bgcolor= | 1992–1994 | Social Democratic Party | |||
| bgcolor= | 1994–1998 | Centre Party | |||
| bgcolor= | 1998–2000 | Christian Democrats | |||
| bgcolor= | 2000–2002 | Christian Democrats | |||
| bgcolor= | 2002–2003 | Moderate Party | |||
| bgcolor= | 2003–2006 | Moderate Party | |||
| bgcolor= | 2006–2007 | Social Democratic Party | |||
| bgcolor= | 2007 | Social Democratic Party | |||
| bgcolor= | 2007–2010 | Social Democratic Party | |||
| bgcolor= | 2010–2018 | Social Democratic Party | |||
| bgcolor= | 2018 | Social Democratic Party | |||
| bgcolor= | Kristina Yngwe[3] | 2018–2020 | Centre Party | ||
| bgcolor= | 2020 | Centre Party | |||
| bgcolor= | 2020–2022 | Centre Party | |||
| bgcolor= | 2022– | Green Party | |||
| Name | Period | Political party | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor= | 1994–1995 | Social Democratic Party | ||||
| bgcolor= | 1995–2002 | Social Democratic Party | ||||
| bgcolor= | 2002–2006 | Green Party | ||||
| bgcolor= | 2006–2010 | Centre Party | ||||
| bgcolor= | 2010-2014 | Moderate Party | ||||
| bgcolor= | 2014–2015 | Centre Party | ||||
| bgcolor= | 2015–2018 | Centre Party | ||||
| bgcolor= | Maria Gardfjell[4] | 2018–2022 | Green Party | |||
| bgcolor= | 2019 | Second vice-Speaker | ||||
| bgcolor= | 2019–2020 | Second vice-Speaker | ||||
| bgcolor= | 2020–2022 | Second vice-Speaker | ||||
| bgcolor= | 2022– | |||||