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Market supervision of the vehicle inspection market
The Swedish Transport Agency’s task is, according to the
vehicle act, to control that the inspection market works well with
respect to road safety, environment, price trend, technical
development and accessibility. Vehicle Act (2010:39). The market
was opened for competition in July 2010.
Six officials are engaged in this work. Four of them work mainly
with supervision visits at inspection stations around the country,
two work mainly with quality and market analysis. The work consists
of three pillars: quality analysis, market analysis and spot
test.
- Quality analysis: The inspection result from the different
inspection bodies is analysed by means of a supervision database
and a Business Intelligence (BI) tool. Analyses are made from
different perspectives, eg. inspection body, geographic area and
type of inspection (road worthiness, registration, moped and
expedience).
- Market analysis: The analysis is based on the information
reported by the inspection bodies to the Swedish Transport Agency.
Other sources of information are WebPages and closing of the books
with respect to eg. accessibility, profitability,
productivity and efficiency. Furthermore other methods, for example
vehicle owner surveys, can be used to obtain reliable
information.
- Spot test: The spot tests are divided into statistic and
practical spot tests. The statistic test is based on information in
the supervision database. The practical test is carried out by a
visit to one specific inspection station.
According to the vehicle act the Swedish Transport Agency is
enjoined to report the result of the supervision and monitoring to
Swedac* and the Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and
Communications.
*Swedish Board for Accreditation and Conformity Assessment.
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