The State Administration Database

Environmental Affairs Section

This page shows the event history for this unit.

01.01.2014* Founding by merger

Name: Environmental Affairs Section
Short name: Miljøseksjonen
Affiliations: Ministry
Hierarchical level: Section
Located: 301 Oslo

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

01.01.2022* New superior organization (horizontal movement)

(The unit has changed superior.)

Tasks:
The section is responsible for co-ordinating the Ministry’s work with matters relating to environmental and climate issues, including amongst other matters the use of viable tools to alleviate environmental and climate concerns in the transport sector. The Environmental Affairs Section co-ordinates the Ministry’s work in overarching design, development and planning. Further, the section is responsible for adaption to climate change, matters relating to taxation policy, in particular those related to environmental and transport taxation, and international environmental affairs.
Source: regjeringen.no

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.