Norwegian Environment Agency

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2013-07-01 00:00:00.0 Founding by merger

Name
Norwegian Environment Agency

Short name
Miljødirektoratet

Affiliations
Central agency/directorate

COFOG
05 Environmental protection

Superior body
Ministry of the Environment

Belongs to group
Norwegian Environment Agency

Main affiliation category
Central unit in integrated civil service organization

Located
1601 Trondheim

Procedure and documents for this change

Case number Parliament sakid=(57321)
Case number Parliament sakid=(57320)

Merged bodies:

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 will merge into a single agency for environmental matters, the Norwegian Environment Agency, under the Ministry of the Environment.