Section for Sustainable Products
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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 more sustainable products and value chains in a more circular economy. This includes inter alia the chemicals policy, the development of a new framework for sustainable products (ecodesign) as part of the EU/EEA and environmental issues related to key value chains such as plastics and batteries. It has a special responsibility for the Product Control Act with associated regulations and the proposed new law for sustainable products and value chains. It is responsible for several chemicals conventions and the work related to the development of a new global, legally binding agreement to end plastic pollution.
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.