The State Administration Database

Department of Administrative and Constitutional Affairs

This page shows the event history for this unit.

01.01.1993* Regular founding

Name: Department of Administrative Affairs
Short name: Administrativ avdeling
Affiliations: Ministry
Hierarchical level: Division
Located: 301 Oslo

Please note that this event has comments in Norwegian that are for the present not translated into English.

01.01.2014* Change of name

Name: Department of Administrative and Constitutional Affairs
Short name: Administrativ og konstitusjonell avdeling

Tasks (source: www.regjeringen.no):
The Department of Administrative and Constitutional Affairs assists the Prime Minister and the Government Secretary in the preparation and the follow-up of Council of State business.

The Department of Administrative and Constitutional Affairs is responsible for all administrative matters at the Office of the Prime Minister. This includes matters relating to wages and personnel, accounting and budgets, archives, information and communication technology, security and the Government Car Service.

The Department is responsible for legal issues linked to the administrative functions of the Office of the Prime Minister, with a particular responsibility also for constitutional matters.

The Department of Administrative and Constitutional Affairs is in charge also of accounts and budgets for the wages and travel expenses of the political staff of all government ministries.

The Department of Administrative and Constitutional Affairs has 62 employees (2014)

Remarks

* = If a date is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies that the date is not confirmed.

* = If a name is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies a direct translation from Norwegian to English. The translation is thus not necessarily the official one (if any exists at all).

Comment to the change-of-name event: Sometimes the old and new name is the same. This occur when the translation to English haven’t taken into consideration minor Norwegian name change.