Section for Waste and Resource Efficiency
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This page shows the event history for this unit.
01.01.2024* Founding by splitting
Tasks:
The section is responsible for international cooperation, including with the EU/EEA, and national policy development in the area of waste. This includes inter alia instruments and measures for better utilization of waste as a resource in a more circular economy, such as increased material recycling and re-use, schemes for extended producer responsibility, work to reduce food waste and cleaning up marine litter. It is also responsible for the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes.
Source: regjeringen.no, january 2024
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.