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The Executive Secretariat

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01.01.2001* Regular founding

Name: The Executive Secretariat
Short name: FD Led Sekr
Affiliations: Ministry
Hierarchical level: Quasi Department
Superior body: Ministry of Defence
Located: 301 Oslo

On behalf of the Secretary General, the secretariat prepares, quality-assures, coordinates and priorities all issues that are submitted to the Minister. Accordingly, the secretariat maintains overall responsibility for the Minister's activities. The Secretariat also includes a military assistant to the Minister. In addition to performing staff functions for the Minister, the secretariat also supports the other members of the political staff as well as the Secretary General function. Administratively the secretariat is attached to the Secretary General.

01.01.2016* Change of name

Name: The Executive Secretariat
Short name: Ledelsens sekretariat

01.01.2020* New superior organization and level

(The unit reports to a new superior organization and at the same time changes its form of affiliation/administrative level.)
Affiliations: Ministry
Hierarchical level: Section

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

Remarks

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* = 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.