9 TRE TRAKTÖRER AKTIEBOLAG v. SWEDEN JUDGMENT 27. Until 1 July 1982, section 64 of the 1977 Act provided as follows: "1. The licensing authority shall revoke the licence or limit it to certain beverages where such sale of alcoholic beverages as takes place under a licence according to this Act causes annoyance relating to public order, drunkenness or disturbance of the peace or where the provisions of this Act or the conditions imposed under it are not complied with. If it may be assumed that a satisfactory situation can be achieved without such a severe measure, the licence-holder may instead be given an admonition or special instructions. 2. The first paragraph also applies, mutatis mutandis, if the conditions for granting a licence are no longer satisfied. 3. In cases covered by the first or the second paragraph the approval of a director or a substitute director may be withdrawn." 28. The second paragraph of section 64 was amended in 1982 (SFS 1982:289); as from 1 July 1982, it has read as follows: "The first paragraph also applies when the licence-holder can no longer be considered suitable to sell alcoholic beverages or when for other reasons the conditions for granting a licence are no longer satisfied." In this connection, the Government’s Bill (p. 82) referred to recent complaints filed before the National Board of Health and Welfare concerning revocation of licences on account of economic mismanagement by the licensee. The Bill also stated (p. 87) that the amendment would make it clearer that economic mismanagement may be a reason for considering the licence-holder unsuitable, even if the sale of alcoholic beverages has been carried out in conformity with the applicable legislation. Only considerable economic mismanagement is relevant in this connection. Anyone who systematically mismanages the payment of taxes and contributions or seriously disregards his obligations regarding book-keeping or the supplying of information shall be considered unsuitable to hold a licence. It is, however, not a condition that the mismanagement is criminal or even intentional. A considerable degree of negligence in the performance of these obligations can also constitute sufficient reason for intervention. 29. With regard to book-keeping, section 70 of the 1977 Act provides as follows: "The book-keeping of an establishment which carries on the sale of alcoholic beverages shall be so organised as to permit control of the activities. The manager of the establishment is obliged to produce the books of the establishment at the request of the licensing authority. He is also obliged to produce statistical information pursuant to the regulations issued by the Government or, after the Government’s decision, by the National Board of Health and Welfare." The travaux préparatoires of section 70 state that unsatisfactory bookkeeping is in itself proof of unsuitability to conduct a business involving the sale of alcoholic beverages.

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