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National Board for Consumer Complaints (Sweden)

Swedish administrative authority

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ6971047 ↗
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The National Board for Consumer Disputes (Swedish: Allmänna reklamationsnämnden, ARN) is a Swedish government agency that answers to the Ministry of Finance. The agency is headquartered in Stockholm. Its main task is to issue non-binding recommendations on the resolution of disputes between consumers and business operators, based on what a court trial is assumed to result in. A person can file complaints against a company. If the company does not follow the recommendation from ARN, ARN will publish this to media, and the consumer has the possibility to take the matter to court.

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This entry incorporates text from “National Board for Consumer Complaints (Sweden)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.