The State Administration Database

Department for Organizational Affairs

This page shows the event history for this unit.

01.01.1990* Founding by complex reorganization

Name: Department for Organizational and Economic Affairs
Short name: Avd. for org/øk.
Affiliations: Ministry
Hierarchical level: Division
Located: 301 Oslo

01.01.2014* Change of name

Name: Department for Organizational Affairs
Short name: O

The responsibility of the Department for Organisational and Economic Affairs consists of assisting the environmental protection agency to work purposefully in relation to the environmental objectives and overall guidelines of the central government administration.

The department looks after staff functions for political leadership and Secretary Generals, develops and maintains management systems and sets overall guidelines for effective and coordinated leadership of the Ministry.

The department is responsible for duties relating to security and preparation, budgets and accounts, administration, planning operations, personnel management and development, and organisational development.

IT strategy for both the Ministry and underlying operations.

The department is also responsible for the Ministry’s service centre, internal IT, administrative procedure systems, archives, library and intranet.
(Source: www.regjeringen.no)

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.