The State Administration Database

Section for Economics and Environmental Policies

This page shows the event history for this unit.

01.01.2014* Founding by complex reorganization

Name: Section for Environmental Economics and Analysis
Short name: SMA
Affiliations: Ministry
Hierarchical level: Section
Located: 301 Oslo

Tasks (source: www.regjeringen.no):
- The linkage between economic development and the environment, including economic analyses
- The national budget and other cross-sectoral reports and studies
- Economic Instruments
- Environmental data
- Coordination of environmental research and of environmental monitoring
- International cooperation within environmental economics, research and monitoring/environmental data
- Responsible for coordination etc. in relation to the OECD’s work with environmental economic issues

01.01.2016* Change of name

Name: Section for Economics and Environmental Policies
Short name: Samfunnsøkonomi- og virkemiddelseksjonen

Links between economic development and the environment, OECD-cooperation, environmental taxes, national and international regulations (EØS and UNECE) on environmental impact assessment, nature diversity policy, the Nature Diversity Act, land conversion for energy or other purposes.

- Links between economic development and the environment
- OECD-cooperation
- Environmental taxes
- National and international regulations (EØS and UNECE) on environmental impact assessment
- Nature diversity policy
- The Nature Diversity Act
- Land conversion for energy or other purposes

Source: regjeringen.no

01.01.2016* Maintenance by absorption

Incorporated bodies:

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

01.01.2023* Change of name

Name: Section for Economics and Environmental Policies
Short name: SAMFUNN

Tasks:
Links between economic development and the environment, OECD-cooperation, environmental taxes, national and international regulations (EØS and UNECE) on environmental impact assessment, nature diversity policy, the Nature Diversity Act, land conversion for energy or other purposes.
Source: regjeringen.no, january 2023

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.