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Committee on Civil Affairs

Swedish parliamentary committee

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ5153041 ↗
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The (Parliamentary) Committee on Civil Affairs (Swedish: Civilutskottet, CU) is a parliamentary committee in the Swedish Riksdag that was founded on 1 October 2006, with the merger of the Committee on Civil-Law Legislation and the Committee on Housing. The committee's areas of responsibility concern housing policy, consumer policy, community planning, and civil law.

When the committee was founded it was the largest reorganization of the Swedish Parliament since the abolishment of the bicameral Riksdag in 1971.

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The public source identifies “Committee on Civil Affairs” as swedish parliamentary committee. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Committee, Civil and Affairs.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5153041. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006 and 1971.

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This entry incorporates text from “Committee on Civil Affairs” 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.