The Svalbard Office
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This page shows the event history for this unit.
01.01.2024* Regular founding
Tasks:
The Svalbard Office
The Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries owns and administers the state’s real property in Svalbard. The Ministry has an office in Longyearbyen.
The Norwegian state owns 98.75 per cent of all land in Svalbard. Through its ownership in Kings Bay AS and Bjørnøen AS, the state indirectly owns a further 0.75 per cent of land in the archipelago.
The Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries owns and administers the state’s real property in Svalbard in line with the objectives of the Svalbard policy.
Source: regjeringen.no, 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.