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Sweden -- Fundamental Law on Freedom of Expression
Chapter 1 Basic Provisions
Article 1 [Purpose and basic principles]
Article 2 [Definitions]
Article 3 [Transmissions]
Article 4 [Databases]
Article 5 [Databases with certificates]
Article 6 [Validity]
Article 7 [Name]
Article 8 [Technical recordings]
Article 9 [Equated with printed matter]
Article 10 [Freedom to communicate and procure information]
Article 11 [Ban on censorship and ban on other obstructive measures]
Article 12 [Images in technical recordings]
Article 13 [No ban on possession or use of technical devices]
Article 14 [Principle of exclusivity]
Article 15 [Instructions regarding application]
Article 16 [Live broadcasts]
Article 17 [Certain matters that may be regulated by law]
Article 18
Article 19
Article 20
Article 21 [Exceptions regarding child pornography]
Chapter 2 On the Right to Anonymity
Article 1 [Right to Anonymity]
Article 2 [Originator of an Item]
Article 3 [Duty of Confidentiality]
Article 4
Article 5 [Inquiry of Identity]
Article 6 [Ban on reprisals]
Article 7 [Penalties]
Chapter 3 On Transmission, Production, and Dissemination
Article 1 [Right to Transmit Radio Programs]
Article 2 [Provisions on Licensing and Conditions of Transmission]
Article 3 [Transmission other than by cable]
Article 4
Article 5 [Restrictions on the right to transmit]
Article 6 [Editorial independence]
Article 7 [Judicial examination]
Article 8 [Obligation to retain recordings and legal deposits]
Article 9 [Exception for maps, drawings or pictures representing Sweden]
Article 10 [Right to produce and disseminate technical recordings]
Article 11 [Exceptions]
Article 12 [Penalties and Special Legal Effects]
Article 13 [Provisions]
Article 14 [Obligation to retain copies and legal deposits]
Article 15 [Obligation to forward technical recordings]
Article 16 [Indication of origin]
Article 17 [Notification of sales or rental activities]
Article 18 [Penalties]
Article 19
Article 20 [Recordings, printed matter and images from a database]
Article 21 [Punishment]
Chapter 4 On Responsible Editors
Article 1 [Responsible Editor]
Article 2 [Requirements]
Article 3 [Power of the Responsible Editor]
Article 4 [Information about responsible editor]
Article 5 [Identity of the responsible editor]
Article 6 [Deputies]
Article 7 [Penalties]
Chapter 5 On Freedom of Expression Offences
Article 1 [Freedom of Expression Offences]
Article 2 [Portrayal of violence]
Article 3 [Announcement in an advertisement]
Article 4 [Offences against the freedom to communicate and procure information]
Article 5 [Procure information]
Article 6 [Penal Sanctions]
Article 6 [Confiscation of Technical Recordings]
Article 7 [Publication of the judgement]
Article 8 [Confiscation]
Chapter 6 Liability Rules
Article 1 [Responsible editor and deputy]
Article 2 [Liability of the Person Responsible for Appointing the Responsible Editor]
Article 3 [Person operating the broadcasting service or causing the technical recordings to be made]
Article 4 [Disseminator]
Article 5 [Liability for certain live broadcasts]
Article 6 [Special regulation on the liability of the responsible editor for information in a database]
Article 7
Article 8 [Objection to liability]
Article 9 [Significance of liability]
Chapter 7 On Supervision and Prosecution
Article 1 [Supervision and Prosecution]
Article 2 [Delegation by the Chancellor of Justice of tasks of a public prosecutor]
Article 3 [Time limits for public prosecution]
Article 4 [Confiscation without permission]
Article 5 [Examination and supervision in certain cases]
Article 6 [Restriction of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms]
Article 7 [Provisions]
Chapter 8 On Special coercive
Article 1 [Impoundment of technical recordings]
Article 2 [Special rules concerning impoundment]
Article 3 [Provisions]
Article 4 [Impoundment orders regarding technical recordings]
Article 5 [Proof of an impoundment]
Article 6 [Impoundment of recordings, printed matter and images from a database]
Chapter 9 On Damages
Article 1 [General conditions]
Article 2 [Liable person]
Article 3 [Live Broadcasts]
Article 4 [Liable person without domicile in Sweden]
Article 5 [Legal person]
Article 6 [Two or more liable persons]
Article 7 [Damages in cases when the penalty for the offence cannot be imposed]
Chapter 10 On Court proceedings in freedom of expression cases
Article 1 [Provisions]
Chapter 11 On Programmes and technical recordings from abroad
Article 1 [General Provisions]
Article 2 [Technical recordings from abroad]
Article 3 [Freedom to communicate and procure information]
Article 4 [Application to technical recordings]
Article 5 [Right to anonymity]
Article 6 [Provisions]
Article 7 [Transmission from outside Sweden]
Chapter 12 General provisions
Article 1 [General provisions]
Article 2 [International legal assistance]
Article 3 [Non-Swedish citizens and non-Swedish legal persons]
Article 4 [Matters not regulated in this fundamental Law]
[Chapter 13] Transitional provisions
[Article 1] Transitional Provisions 1991
[Article 2] Transitional Provisions Relating to 1998 Amendments
[Article 3] Transitional Provisions Relating to 2002 Amendments
[Article 4] Transitional Provisions Relating to 2018 Amendments
1. This Act comes into force on 1 January 2019.
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