Committee on Environment and Agriculture

{{short description|Swedish parliamentary committee}}

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{{Committees in the Riksdag}}

(Parliamentary) Committee on Environment and Agriculture{{cite book |url=https://www.regeringen.se/contentassets/e27ee47ea294461bbb0f39b68d31c540/utrikes-namnbok-uppdaterad-juli-2013-sv.pdf |title=Utrikes namnbok. [Elektronisk resurs] : svenska myndigheter, organisationer, titlar, EU- och EG-organ, EU-titlar och länder på engelska, tyska, franska, spanska, finska och ryska |edition=9th, rev. |year=2013 |publisher=Utrikesdepartementet, Regeringskansliet |location=Stockholm |language=sv |id={{SELIBR|14986186}} |page=23}} ({{langx|sv|miljö- och jordbruksutskottet}}) (MJU) is a parliamentary committee in the Swedish Riksdag. The committee's main areas of responsibility are the Swedish agricultural industry, agriculture, forestry, policies surrounding gardening, hunting, fishing, and weather forecasting. The committee also handles other matters such as the safety of nuclear power, nature conservation, and environmental protection, along with other matters that do not concern any other of the seventeen committees. Before the 1998/1999 opening of the Riksdag, was the name of the committee Jordbruksutskottet (Committee on Agriculture){{cite web |title=Utskott som har upphört |url=http://www.riksdagen.se/templates/R_Page____11178.aspx |website=riksdagen.se |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081005133027/http://www.riksdagen.se/templates/R_Page____11178.aspx |accessdate=21 January 2008|archive-date=2008-10-05 }}

The committee's Speaker is Emma Nohrén, from the Green Party, and the vice-Speaker is Kjell-Arne Ottosson from the Christian Democrats.