The State Administration Database

Section for Nature Management and Outdoor Recreation

This page shows the event history for this unit.

01.01.1990* Founding by complex reorganization

Name: * Outdoor section
Short name: Frilutfseksj.
Affiliations: Ministry
Hierarchical level: Section
Located: 301 Oslo

01.01.1993* Change of name

Name: * Section for outdoor life
Short name: Seskj. for fril.liv

01.01.1998* Change of name

Name: * Section for outdoor life and land use management
Short name: FRIA

01.01.2014* Change of name

Name: Section for Mountain Management and Outdoor Recreation
Short name: FRI

Tasks (source: www.regjeringen.no):
- Measures to safeguard natural diversity in mountainous areas such as protected areas (national parks, landscape protection areas, nature reserves, etc.), prioritised species, selected types of nature, the control of foreign organisms, etc.
- Knowledge platform for nature in mountainous areas.
- Outdoor life.
- Undeveloped land.
- Coordinating the management of protected areas.
- Off-road motor traffic and use of water scooters.
- Working with value creation related to natural heritage.
- Coordinating the work with nature information centres.
- Legislation: The Norwegian Natural Diversity Act, the Norwegian Outdoor Recreation Act, the Norwegian Oslo Forest and Countryside Act, the Norwegian Act of Motor traffic on uncultivated land and in watercourses, the Norwegian Act of Leisure Boats.

01.01.2016* Change of name

Name: Section for Nature Management and Outdoor Recreation
Short name: Natur- og friluftslivseksjonen

Measures to safeguard nature diversity in forests, wetlands and mountains. Protectet areas (establishement of new areas, management of existing areas). Outoor recreation and the Outdoor Recreation Act. Use of motorized vehicles on Uncultivated land and in Watercourses.

- Measures to safeguard nature diversity in forests, wetlands and mountains.
- Protectet areas (establishement of new areas, management of existing areas).
- Outoor recreation and the Outdoor Recreation Act.
- Use of motorized vehicles on Uncultivated land and in Watercourses.

Source: regjeringen.no

01.01.2016* Maintenance by absorption

Incorporated bodies:

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

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.