The Swedish Work Environment Authority has received harsh criticism during SVT's review of the battle for the mouthguards, among other things for erasing e-mails.

Now it turns out that the requirements for authorities to save documents have not decreased during the crisis - on the contrary. The National Archives wants you to preserve more   than usual, something the Altinget site was the first to tell.

- Corona pandemic is a special event and it is important that in the future we can see how we handled it, says Peter Sivervall, head of the Public Information Management Department at the National Archives.

As an example of documents that might otherwise have been deleted, but now may need to be left, is mentioned internal internal correspondence.

Now you have raised the bar for what to erase?

- Yes you could say that.

At the Work Environment Authority, the National Archives' request has not been disseminated internally. On the contrary, employees have recently been asked to clear their mailboxes.

“We tag coronary-related information and we have routines for thinning e-mails, and we have communicated that. Now we are looking at what we can do to better identify coronary-related information that is important to preserve for the outside world, ”Sara Tedebrandt Frant, Head of Unit at the Legal Department writes in a comment.

Contacts were not recorded

Both the Swedish Work Environment Authority and the Government Offices have also refrained from conducting conversations about the requirements for oral protection.

In the Swedish Work Environment Authority's case, it was about meetings with the employer Stockholm City, which was held after the city appealed the authority's decision on the Serafen retirement home. The decision not to diarise them today is justified by the fact that they did not add "anything new to the matter".

In the Government Offices, the Minister of Social Affairs Lena Hallengren's staff let them keep diarical contacts with the municipalities' interest organization SKR.

The minister's press secretary writes in a comment that "you have regular contacts with various interest organizations and authorities to keep us informed, sometimes we attend meetings and sometimes not. In this case, our presence was not needed. Since our presence was not needed and it was a matter for the authorities, the assessment was made that there was no need to keep in touch. "