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Section for the High North, Polar Affairs and Marine Resources

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01.01.2005* Founding by splitting

Name: * Section for northern area issues, polar issues and nuclear safety

Short name: Seksjon for nordområdespørsmål, polarsaker

Affiliations: Ministry

Hierarchical level: Section

Superior body: Security Policy Department

Located: 301 Oslo

Ended body as a consequence of dividing:

* Section for global security issues and nuclear safety

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

01.01.2007* Change of name

Name: * Section for northern area, resources and Russia

Short name: Seksjon for nordområdene, ressurser og Russland

01.01.2011* Change of name

Name: Section for the High North Project, Polar Affairs, Energy and Resources

Short name: Seksjon for nordområdeprosjektet, polarsaker, energi og ressurser

Ongoing implementation of the Government’s High North policy, including implementation of the High North Strategy and New Building Blocks in the North, work on polar affairs, including issues relating to Svalbard and cooperation in the Arctic (the Arctic Council), international cooperation on the management of living marine resources, and energy issues in a security and foreign policy context.
Source: Regjeringen.no 2011

01.01.2015* Change of name

Name: Section for the High North, Polar Affairs and Marine Resources

Short name: NORD/RESSURSER

Tasks:
Ongoing implementation of the Government’s High North policy, including implementation of the High North Strategy and New Building Blocks in the North.
Source: regjeringen.no (februar 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.