Swedish Consumers' Association


The Swedish Consumers' Association is a consumer organization based in Sweden. It is a member of Consumers International, BEUC and ANEC.

Work

Swedish Consumers' Association works national, international and within the EU. The organisation owns the consumer test magazine "Råd & Rön".
The Swedish Consumers' Association strive to:
All work shall be based on the following often horizontal priorities: ethical consumption, availability, product safety, integrity, equality and non-discrimination with regards to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, age, sex or gender orientation.
Swedish Consumers’ Association has presently five top priorities – Food, Financial Services, Textile and Digital Services. Sustainable consumption is a crosscutting priority.
The organization advocates simpler end-user license agreements, using Apple iTunes as an example. The Swedish Consumers Association advocates consumer adoption of smart grids.

History

Swedish Consumers' Association was founded in 1994. It is a federation of today 21 member organisations in Sweden.
In a 2016 New Yorker article the organization remarked on experiments in Swedish banking reform.