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Today we got a new law from the highest court in Sweden, against drones with cameras. A camera attached to a drone equated with a surveillance camera and one must therefore seek permission to use it.
A permit you probably never will get, since it is only in crime prevention or rescue situations it is given.

So you can probably safely say that drone industry in Sweden, died today. RIP

The only thing that can save is if the constitution will be rewritten.

Here is a link with Google-translate..
Tillstånd krävs för kamera på en drönare men inte för kamera i en bil - Högsta förvaltningsdomstolen
 
Today we got a new law from the highest court in Sweden, against drones with cameras. A camera attached to a drone equated with a surveillance camera and one must therefore seek permission to use it.
A permit you probably never will get, since it is only in crime prevention or rescue situations it is given.

So you can probably safely say that drone industry in Sweden, died today. RIP

The only thing that can save is if the constitution will be rewritten.

Here is a link with Google-translate..
Tillstånd krävs för kamera på en drönare men inte för kamera i en bil - Högsta förvaltningsdomstolen
Not good, that just killed the drone market there :(
 
Since drones are part of the future, I find it very hard to believe the last word's been said.

There will be a way for professionals to use them, I'm sure of it.
 
I understand, if google translate was correct, that any camera that can be operated from a distance should have a special surveillance permit, which is supposed to be almost impossible to get, unless you are a surveillance professional.

Wow. Privacy is a precious thing in Sweden.

Too bad, such a beautiful country, must have incredible places to fly where you bother nobody. So unlike the Netherlands, where you are always touching someones space. Every square inch has someones name written on it. Fortunately our NL-CAA follows the mainstream of FAA, CAA, EASA ruling.

Good luck to you Swedes, I hope that your government understands the importance of the industry and will come to common sense.
 
Ok, now the worst shock has settled and the anger has been total in the whole country.
Newspapers, broadcasters and lots of different companies and even politicians have reacted strongly to the judgment.

The problem is that the judgment is by an old law, which was last revised in 2013. Since there were no drones in the picture at the time, the law can not act differently about them. The technique is instead compared with a dedicated surveillance camera and go by the laws of that instead.
Have been told that the Swedish government is about to revising the law, as a light in the darkness here. But that's far in the future, probably 1-2 years before the law is ready.
Really hope they speed up the work, otherwise many companies will go bankrupt.

Small clip on the irony of the law. :)

 
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There have been, and are, regimes that work on the basis that "Everything is Forbidden except that with is Allowed." Very Soviet! - can't see the latest ruling prevailing given EU Human Rights Legislation. Eventually it will probably be overturned given employment considerations and common sense.
 
Right now I just wanna puke ... What is this?

From a newspaper:
Utlänningar får filma från drönare

"Citizens of other EU countries have the right to film and photograph from drones in contexts where prohibited for Swedes, reports The News of TV4.

When the Supreme Administrative Court last week ruled that surveillance law applies to drones, were fierce criticism from many Swedish photographers.

Camera surveillance law only applies to cameras that are set up in Sweden, if the operator monitoring is established in Sweden or a country outside the EU.
Otherwise, the law do not apply, says Nicklas Hjertonsson, Head of the Data Inspectorate, to TV4.
There is an EU directive that is the basis for the laws in each EU country. But countries interpret the directive in different ways, and Sweden now has stricter rules about just drones than many other countries."
 
If all of you get together and just ignore them they won't be able to do anything.
From what I hear they are doing a sterling job of screwing up Sweden as a country.

You people need to get tougher because you're going to be walked over by the smarmy globalists in suits whose lives revolve around making up stupid laws to make your world smaller, and give substance to their existence.
 
Thats ironic, from the land of pornography


Sweden may have been a leader in porn many years ago, but I doubt they're even in the top 25 these days -- think Eastern Europe.

I suspect they will reconcider there prohibition but if they are slow to do so then they will fall behind in a technology that is just at its nascent stage. Eventually there will be a great many jobs tied to drones and much good that can come from them -- my guess is Sweden will wise up to that within a couple years. Of course, if some knucklehead takes down a large pasenger jet and kills several hundred people by being reckless with a drone then that could spell the end for the industry. I hope this doesn't happen, but even on this board we see posts that make you cringe.


Brian
 
Thats ironic, from the land of pornography

A little bit off topic, but..
When a Swede thinks about porn, the first thing they probably think about is Playboy. ;)

Not much news on topic.. We all just wait for better days or fly anyway.
 
Ok, new directives from the Data Inspection Board to the County Administrative Board, which will manage licensing regarding drones with cameras.

What it looks like is that I can just as easily sell my drones, if I only have them to brokerage shoots.
I will loose 6 figures Swedish kr every year, but thats ok..... emigrate?

Link to the document below.
Google Översätt
 
I am sorry for the intransigence of your government. This is far reaching and is really about absolute control and regulation cloaked in the all too common "public protection" edicts.
 

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