The State Administration Database

* Section for the High North and Antarctica

This page shows the event history for this unit.

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
Located: 301 Oslo
Ended body as a consequence of dividing:

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)

01.07.2024* Change of name

Name: * Section for the High North and Antarctica
Short name: SIK NORDOMR

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.