Section for Marine Environment
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This page shows the event history for this unit.
01.01.2009* Founding by merger
Please note that this event has comments in Norwegian that are for the present not translated into English.
01.01.2012* Maintenance by secession
01.01.2012* Change of name
01.01.2014* Change of name
01.01.2014* New superior organization (horizontal movement)
Tasks (source: www.regjeringen.no):
Integrated management of the marine environment. Management plans for the Barents Sea and the sea areas off the Lofoten islands, the Norwegian Sea, and the North Sea and Skagerrak. The petroleum industry, fisheries, shipping, including management of the Norwegian Maritime Directorate on environmental issues. Marine protected areas, marine spatial planning, marine biological diversity, acute pollution, new marine and maritime industries. Knowledge about marine ecosystems. International cooperation, including the OSPAR Convention, IMO, the London Convention, the EU marine strategy and cooperation on protection of the marine environment in the High North. The Oil for Development program.
01.01.2025* New superior organization (horizontal movement)
Tasks:
Section for Marine Management
The section has overall responsibility for the comprehensive management plans for Norwegian marine areas, protection of marine biodiversity, and for pollution and other impacts on the marine environment. In addition, the section is responsible for international marine environmental cooperation and a number of international conventions.
Source: regjeringen.no, january 2025
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.