The State Administration Database

The Consumer Authority

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01.01.2021* Founding by complex reorganization

Name: The Consumer Authority
Short name: Forbrukertilsynet
Affiliations: Other public administration body
COFOG 10 Social protection
Main affiliation category: Integrated civil service organization
Procedure and documents for this change:

The Consumer Authority (CA) is an independent administrative body with the responsibility of supervising measures in the market and seek to exert influence on traders to observe the regulatory framework.

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.