The State Administration Database

Section for South East Europe

This page shows the event history for this unit.

01.01.2002* Founding by complex reorganization

Name: * Western Balkan Section (VBS)
Short name: Vest-balkanseksjonen
Affiliations: Ministry
Hierarchical level: Section
Superior body: * Europe department
Located: 301 Oslo

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

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.

01.01.2015* Change of name

Name: Section for South East Europe
Short name: Sørøsteuropeisk seksjon

Tasks:
Involvement in EEA and Norway Grants policy development for some of its portfolio countries. Use of ODA in other portfolio countries. EU enlargement. Energy and security policy. Responsibility for Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Malta, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Croatia, Kosovo and Albania.
Source: regjeringen.no (february 2015)

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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