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
Please note! Our processing time for applications is right now up to three months due to many incoming applications.
If the assessment requires further documentation to be complete, the processing time may be even longer.
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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
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.
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 1 890 and must be paid no later than 7 days after the application has been submitted. Here's how to make the payment:
- The National Electrical Safety Board's Bankgiro (BG): 503-0333.
- For payments outside Sweden, the application fee is paid to: IBAN: SE2012000000012810104492, SWIFT/BIC: DABASESX.
Please note that name and personal number (yyyymmdd-nnnn) must be provided as a reference/message when making payment. If you do not have a Swedish personal number, please provide name and date of birth.
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:
- ELSÄK-FS 2017:4
- Education
- Practical experience
- Requirements for A
- Requirements for AL
- Requirements for B
Decision
We estimate our processing time to about three 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 be notified by e-mail or postal letter to inform you of our decision.
Application for authorisation
We are currently unable to accept applications through the e-service. Here's how to apply instead:
Download our application form
You need to fill out the form with your personal information, which authorisation type you are applying for and sign it.
Application for authorisation as an electrician - 1890.pdf
Submit your application
Submit the following documents to this email address: auktorisationsfragor@elsakerhetsverket.se
- Application form
- Copies of your degree and academic record
- Attestations confirming practical experience
Pay the application fee
Payment of the application fee of SEK 1,890 must be made no later than 7 days after the application has been submitted. Here's how to make the payment:
- The National Electrical Safety Board's Bankgiro (BG): 503-0333.
- For payments outside Sweden, the application fee is paid to: IBAN: SE2012000000012810104492, SWIFT/BIC: DABASESX.
Please note that name and personal number (yyyymmdd-nnnn) must be provided as a reference/message when making payment. If you do not have a Swedish personal number, please provide name and date of birth.
