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Apply for authorisation

When applying for authorisation as an authorised electrician/electrical contractor, you need to fulfill both an education requirement and a practical experience requirement. Please make sure what requirements are relevant to the authorisation type you want to apply for.

Processing time for authorisation

Our goal is for you to receive a response to your application within two months. As soon as we have registered your payment, we will send you an e-mail with more information about the application process. Please check your spam if you don't receive any response from us.

The National Electrical Safety Board do not make any pre-application assessment of your education and practical experience – the assessment will be made when you apply for authorisation. Please make sure you find out exactly which requirements are relevant to the authorisation type you want to apply for.

The following must be sent to the National Electrical Safety Board:

1. Application

The application is submitted via our e-service. In the application, you have to decide which authorisation type you are applying for. You have to submit education certificates and attestations confirming your practical experience.

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How to apply

E-service for application for authorisation
If you have problems with the e-service, please contact us by e-mail: registrator@elsakerhetsverket.se

2. Education

Include copies of attestations or certificates confirming education with relevance to the authorisation type your are applying for.

More information about education

3. Practical experience

Include attestations confirming practical experience, using the form specified by the National Electrical Safety Board. Note that the forms are different depending on whether the practical experience:

consists of electrical installation work carried out before or after July, 1 2017
consists of other work involving electricity
was undertaken in another EEA country or Switzerland

More information about practical experience

Qualifications gained abroad

If you apply for authorisation on the basis of qualifications gained abroad, the documents are different according to how and where you gained the qualifications.

More information about qualifications gained abroad

Application fee

The application fee when applying for authorisation is SEK 1 660. You pay the fee within seven days after we have received your application documents.

NOTE! From January 1, 2025, a new application fee of SEK 1 890 will be charged.

More information about the application fee

Requirements

The education and practical experience requirements are included in the National Electrical Safety Board's authorisation regulations ELSÄK-FS 2017:4. You will find more on the requirements here:

Decision

We estimate our processing time to about two months. If we need to ask for additional information, the processing time may be longer. Your application may also take longer during the summer months. You will notified by e-mail or postal letter to inform you of our decision.