Section for Pollution Control and Green Shipping
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This page shows the event history for this unit.
01.01.2014* Founding by complex reorganization
Tasks (source: www.regjeringen.no):
International cooperation, including EU/EEA, and development of national policy, legal and economic policy instruments in the areas of chemicals, waste and long-range air pollution. The Norwegian Pollution Control Act and the Norwegian Product Control Act. Regulation of emissions and discharges from industry, aquaculture and waste, as well as the environmental impact of radioactive radiation in Norway. Environmental technology. Follow up of international fora and international environmental agreements in these fields.
01.05.2020* Change of name
Tasks:
International cooperation, including EU/EEA, and development of national policy, legal and economic policy instruments in the areas of chemicals, waste and long-range air pollution. The Norwegian Pollution Control Act and the Norwegian Product Control Act. Regulation of emissions and discharges from industry, aquaculture and waste, as well as the environmental impact of radioactive radiation in Norway. Environmental technology. Follow up of international fora and international environmental agreements in these fields.
Source: regjeringen.no
01.01.2025* Change of name
Tasks:
Section for Pollution Control and Green Shipping
The section is responsible for international cooperation, including with the EU/EEA, and development of national policy within the field of pollution. The section is responsible for international work, EU/EEA work and national policy development within the field of pollution. This applies, among other things, to polluting emissions from industry, mining, agriculture, aquaculture and sewage, and long-range air pollution. The section is also responsible for work on green shipping nationally and internationally. The section has special responsibility for the Pollution Control Act.
Source: regjeringen.no, january 2025
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.