The State Administration Database

Water Resources and Area Planning

This page shows the event history for this unit.

01.07.2005 Founding by complex reorganization

Name: Water Resources and Area Planning (VA)
Short name: VA
Affiliations: Ministry
Hierarchical level: Section
Located: 301 Oslo

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

25.06.2012* Change of name

Name: Water Resources and Area Planning
Short name: RAM

Tasks:
Taking care of water resources management, protection of watercources, licensing of small hydro power stations, land use planning for energy plants, such as wind power mills, emergency planning and watercource safety. The Ministry’s management of NVE is also included.
Source: regjeringen.no (OED)

30.09.2021* Ending by merger

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.