According to SSR, it is also about being able to support the Sami villages in the work with consultations and to carry out training during the autumn.
At the last board meeting, the Sami Parliament's reindeer husbandry committee approved the application and granted SEK 700,000 for SSR's work with consultations in accordance with the consultation procedure.
- Already today we receive many consultation requests.
So we are very happy that we received the grant.
We have hired a person who will work up a structure for participation in the consultations, but we will also work to follow up how this law works, says Jenny Wik Karlsson, federal lawyer at the Swedish Sami National Association.
What are the consultation requests about?
- It is everything from predators to cultural environmental remains and electrical wiring.
We have had meetings with about ten authorities.
This work takes time.
Still critical of what the law looks like
The law on consultations with the Sami people in matters concerning them, came into force on the first of March this year.
No later than the first of November, SSR must report to the Sami Parliament on how the grant has been used.
What are the expectations now that the law has come into force?
- We are still critical of how the law is designed, but the lowest expectations are that the authorities increase knowledge, says Jenny Wik Karlsson, SSR.
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60 seconds about what a consultation procedure really is.
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