The fragmented and divergent administrative governance systems for health data in the member states have been identified as an obstacle in the creation of the European Health Data Space (EHDS). One of the aims of the EHDS is therefore to create a legal framework of trusted governance mechanisms within the EU and the member states. In order to ensure access to electronic health data for the benefit of the society, the EHDS regulation introduces advanced administrative governance structures to be applied at the national level. The societal interest of access to health data must however be balanced against the rights and interests of the individual concerned. This chapter analyses the efficiency of the governance structures from the perspective of protecting rights and interest of the individuals concerned via two sets of administrative tools for balancing the competing interests. The first set of tools are legal, technical and organisational safeguards to protect the right to informational privacy. The second set consists of general administrative guarantees for protecting individual interests in the handling of their matters before a public administration, the right to good administration.

Det förvaltningsrättsliga landskapet i Sverige har under de senaste decennierna blivit allt mer sammanlänkat med Europarätten, dvs. EU-rätten, Europakonventionen samt annat material från Europarådet. För att som svensk jurist kunna arbeta med förvaltningsrättsliga frågor är det nödvändigt att ha en grundläggande förståelse för hur Europarätten påverkar de svenska rättsliga strukturerna. I boken presenteras förutsättningarna för Europarättens genomslag i Sverige, samt vad gäller EU, hur förvaltningsorgan från EU och Sverige samverkar inom fyra områden:• handläggningsregler för förvaltningsmyndigheter• offentlighet och sekretess• dataskydd• rätt till domstolsprövning.Denna andra upplaga av Europeisk förvaltningsrätt i Sverige är uppdaterad med ny lagstiftning och praxis fram till och med november 2024. Boken utgör ett komplement till annan grundläggande litteratur om allmän förvaltningsrätt och riktar sig till såväl studenter som yrkesverksamma jurister.

With the European Strategy for Data, launched in 2020, the Commission has envisioned the EU as a leader in a data-driven society, where important societal benefits can be achieved by ‘unleashing the data’. The aim is to create a single market for data, allowing data to flow freely within the EU and across sectors, for the benefit of businesses, researchers and public administrations. European and national administrative authorities play a central role in achieving these goals. Building on the GDPR, several new acts regulating the data-driven society and AI continues to shape a European composite administration for data based on the cooperation of European and national public authorities. The executive strategy of the composite administration combines a compliance-based approach, guidance and capacity building, with strong deterrents, high administrative fines. This developing composite administration can be expected to have important influences on core areas of democratic policymaking, including collecting and making accessible information and personal data, defining prerequisites for research and technical development. Focusing on the GDPR, the AI Act and the European Heath Data Space Regulation, this chapter investigates whether the European composite administration for data is adequately construed to respond to the constitutional requirements of the representative democracies of the EU and its Member States. More concretely, how can the European composite administration fulfil the two basic tasks of the executive under the rule of law, to ensure that the aims and contents of the legislation are realised and that constitutional restraints of public powers are upheld? The conclusions drawn are that the constitutional setting of the composite administration and the allocation of tasks and competences in institutional and procedural responsibilities remain underdeveloped. It is therefore difficult to foresee how this administrative organisational model can uphold the requirements stemming the rule of law, to ensure that the law is applied efficiently and that public power is limited, predictable and performed in accordance with the law.

The organisation of the Swedish administration departs from what is traditional in the Western hemisphere, as Swedish public authorities are organisationally separated from the Government and legally semi-independent. Administrative authorities at the national level may thus only be commanded and controlled by the Government as a whole, not by any individual minister (Chap. 7, Sect. 3 Instrument of Government (IG)). Further, all authorities, both state and municipal, are granted a constitutionally protected sphere of independent decision-making (Chap. 12, Sect. 3 IG). An important part of the Swedish administrative model is the principle of transparency and access to official documents. The administration is thus to act transparently and in accordance with the law. The unique traits of the Swedish administrative model have had an impact on the Swedish Administrative Procedures Act (APA). Content-wise, the APA reflects the traditional Swedish understanding of the role that public authorities have in the Swedish administrative model. The partially independent authorities are to use the public powers bestowed on them to guide and assist the public and the individuals whose matters are being processed. In older legal doctrine, it was often emphasised that the administrative authorities should take the individual by the hand and guide them. Beyond these service-oriented features of the Swedish APA, the interest in legal certainty for individuals has increased.