Surveillance by intelligence services – Volume II: field perspectives and legal update
the intelligence services need prior ministerial
authorisation. The prior authorisation must also be
examined by the Assessment Committee on the Use
of Powers (Toetsingscommissie Inzet Bevoegdheden).
The 2015 FRA report presented the foreign general
surveillance of communications techniques available to
the National Defence Radio Establishment (Försvarets
Radioanstalt) in Sweden, which have not been subject
to legislative reform since 2015.170 The law provides for
the interception of signals from cables crossing Swedish
territory, at the request of specific public authorities,
following judicial approval.
170 FRA (2015a), p. 23.
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