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* Change of name
01.01.2012* Maintenance by secession
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.
01.01.2014* Change of name
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.