How our Council works
Purpose of Council activities
The member councils aim to ensure that TechSverige's activities and advocacy work are well anchored among our members, but also to provide an arena for the exchange of knowledge and experience - both between member companies, and between members and employees at TechSverige.
Forms of Council activity
Which member councils exist and which issues they should focus on is decided by TechSverige on the recommendation of its members. The same applies to decisions on whether a council's activities should be terminated, change focus or whether new councils are started. This means that the number of councils, and the issues/areas represented, are constantly changing and governed by the member companies' own development and/or needs as a result of external developments and the impact on the industry.
The councils are led by a chairman appointed by the members, who represents a member company within TechSverige. When electing a chairman, a vice-chairman should also be elected.
The Councils are administered, in close cooperation with the Chair, by a representative of TechSverige, who is the Council Manager.
Requirements for councils
Individual councils decide on their own activities, but are expected to comply with these requirements.
- Participating companies undertake to respect TechSverige's basic principles of business ethics.
- For competition law reasons, the Council's activities must not constitute a forum for business, price discussions and the like.
Members of Parliament
All member companies are invited to participate with one full member per council, as well as alternates. New members are informed about all the councils, and which people at TechSverige are responsible for each council. Member companies themselves actively decide on their participation in the councils, as well as in which councils they want to be included - in other words, no one is automatically affiliated with the council activities
- Participation in the Council is based on mutual respect and the active contribution of all members to its work.
- Actively contributing means participating in the majority of Council meetings and activities, as well as in communication and decision-making processes within the Council.
- A Council member represents his or her company in the Council.
The President
The President's main task is to represent the Council and, together with the Council President, to lead the Council's activities by supporting it in
- Plan, prepare, implement and evaluate Council meetings.
- Supporting, distributing and monitoring the work of the Council.
- Follow up and evaluate decisions taken in the Council
- Responsible for the further development of Council activities.
- Act as spokesperson on Council issues.
Council officer
The main task of the Council Manager is to manage and administer the Council's activities together with the President, by being responsible for:
- To assist the President of the Council in the work on the above points.
- Meeting notices, documentation and communication.
- Developing and anchoring the Council's policy documents and operational plan.
- Managing and anchoring Replies to public consultations and consultation responses, and other position papers, within the Council's remit.
- Ensure that the Council's activities comply with TechSverige's requirements as set out in this document.
- Acting as a spokesperson on Council issues, towards other members and the outside world.
Governing documents
- The Council must have an agreed and endorsed governing document that describes the purpose and activities of the Council, including the arrangements for meetings.
- Each year, the Council must draw up an action plan that includes defined objectives and activities and how they are evaluated, monitored and communicated.
- The Council shall have established processes for decision-making, documentation and election of the Chair and any other positions of trust within the Council
Transparency and communication
- Councils are encouraged to be transparent and openly communicate their activities as much as possible. To achieve this, the business plan should also include a plan for communicating both the activities as a whole, and individual activities.
- In all contexts in which Council members speak or communicate, it must be made clear whether the member is speaking as a representative of themselves, their own company or the Council as a whole. Positions that apply to the Council as a whole must be well established with all members.