The State Administration Database

European Policy Section

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01.01.2002* Founding by complex reorganization

Name: European Policy Section
Short name: Europapolitisk seksjon (EPS)
Affiliations: Ministry
Hierarchical level: Section
Superior body: * Europe department
Located: 301 Oslo

Tasks (as of february 2015):
General European policy. Analysis of political, economic and institutional developments in the EU. Contact with the following EU institutions: the European Council, the European Commission, the European Parliament and the rotating EU Presidency. Coordination of Norwegian cooperation with the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). The Euro cooperation and the financial, debt and bank crises. European policy from a domestic perspective. Country responsibility for Germany, France, the UK, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Ireland, Benelux and Vatican City State. The EU’s neighbourhood policy.
Source: regjeringen.no

01.01.2007* No change to unit, but change of superior

(The unit reports to a new superior organization because the previous superior organization was terminated at the same time.)
Superior body: European Department

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.

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