The government forgot to answer Wetterstrands question

Maria Wetterstrand was the winter of 2018 mission to lead an investigation into the future of environmentally friendly fuels at the same time as she is a shareholder and a director of the company Cortus Energy – whose goal among others is to develop green aviation fuel.

Isabella Lövin (MP). Photo: Nicklas Thegerström

has been questioned, and according to Olle Lundin, professor of administrative law, it can be a jävssituation.

According to the environmental and energy department was known for her assignments in Cortus before the appointment but was not informed of the shareholding in February of this year.

the DN has requested the Maria Wetterstrands mejlkonversation with the Environment and energy from the end of 2017 to march 2019.

On 4 February this year, e-mailed Maria Wetterstrand commission's secretary general, and announced that she was on the same day found out that Cortus Energy are discussing a cooperation with another company to build a joint plant to produce biojet and that she owns shares in the company. Wetterstrand asked the question if there could be a problem due to the investigation. Huvudsekreteraren sent the same morning on the matter to the Environment and energidepartementets legal and expeditionschef.

But beach weather never got any response.

According to the environmental and klimatminister Isabella Lövin, (MP), committed a mistake in the ministry.

"It was nothing I was aware of," says Lövin about the shareholding.

– It is a relationship that she notified the department and it has been submitted in the beginning of February an e-mail where she asked if there are problems, or a conflict of interest. Unfortunately, she has not received a reply to the e-mail.

– It is the human factor.

– It is an oversight that may be attributed to the human factor. We need to review the procedures for how to handle such cases. It is clear that I think it is very unfortunate that I have not been reached by the information and that Maria Wetterstrand has not been an assessment on the basis of the question she asked.

" I can't speculate. I can only conclude that it is very important to me that the results should be credible and not be questioned. It is a very unfortunate situation we find ourselves in, as we now discuss an investigator rather than the results that I do not consider there to be reasons to question. But it is clear that a man sees a problem in that we shall now discuss the conflicts of interest of the investigator.

" I can't comment on jävsfrågan. It should be a legally knowledgeable person to assess. I had made the assessment on the basis of my political starting point. Then I had applied the precautionary principle. I had probably been able to predict that it could become problematic. Investigators can have a lot of commitment, it is a part-time employment. But in this case I had seen that it would be problematic.

– It is difficult to answer exactly what I had done but it is clear that I had wanted to see transparency on this holding.

– It is a hypothetical question what happened if I had received the information. I had wanted to act in such a way so that the commission's credibility and impartiality can be guaranteed.

" I can't comment on the legal. But based on the situation, it is obvious that it leads to that the results are not discussed and taken forward in a way that I think would be desirable. Instead, we discuss the investigator's potential conflicts of interest.

" I don't want to go into exactly what time. I can't the details of the company's operations. It is a company that has been around for many years and have been involved with the development of biofuels with many different outlets. It was the right of Maria Wetterstrand to hear of themselves, and regrets that she did not receive any reply.

She has been open with their RESUME and their commitment and have asked a question when she felt that it was relevant to set the.

" not a criticism, either against the officers went through the Wetterstrands mission and commitment to find out something could be in conflict with the investigation task.

" I think there are very many of the state investigators that have shareholding and the various economic activities and linkages. It is up to both the officials and the proposed evaluator to talk about the existence of conflicts of interest. So the situation looked like when she was appointed, it was deemed that it did not. Both of Maria itself and from civil servants who had conversations with her.

Now has " decided to launch an internal investigation of how investigators are appointed on the Environment and energy. She does not expect that the investigation needs to be done but that it will be reviewed by the bodies consulted.

The sweden democrats have KU-notified Isabella Lövin, on how she and the department managed the risk of a conflict of interest and conflict of interest.

Environment minister Isabella Lövin (MP) is now called the environment and agriculture committee with the reason of the question of disqualification on the investigator, Maria Wetterstrand.

"We want to know how they can secure the commission's independence, despite the question marks that have arisen," says the committee's second vice-president Jessica Rosencrantz (M) to the TT.

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