The State Administration Database

Competition

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01.01.2023* Founding by splitting

Name: Competition
Short name: KOS
Affiliations: Ministry
Hierarchical level: Section
Located: 301 Oslo
Ended body as a consequence of dividing:

Tasks:
The Competition unit oversees the Competition Act, the EEA competition rules, the act relating to fair trading practices in the grocery supply chain and the price policy act. The unit also provides advice on measures that facilitate effective competition. Furthermore, the unit contributes to ensuring that competition considerations are sufficiently considered in other policy areas. This implies, among other things, legislative and regulatory work, economic analysis of competition issues and other projects.
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.