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Norwegian Environment Agency

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01.07.2013 Founding by merger

Name: Norwegian Environment Agency
Short name: Miljødirektoratet
Affiliations: Other public administration body
Hierarchical level: Highest level
COFOG 05 Environmental protection
Main affiliation category: Integrated civil service organization
Procedure and documents for this change:

For more than forty years, the Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management (DN) and the Norwegian Climate and Pollution Agency (Klif) have played a key role in preserving nature, reducing pollution, and shaping Norwegian environmental policy. Effective 1 July 2013 the two directorates were merged into a single agency for environmental matters, the Norwegian Environment Agency, under the Ministry of the Environment.

01.05.2018 Maintenance by reorganization

Procedure and documents for this change:

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

01.01.2024 Maintenance by reorganization

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.