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The Communication Unit

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01.01.1981* Regular founding

Name: * Information service

Short name: Info.tjen.

Affiliations: Ministry

Hierarchical level: Staff unit

Superior body: Ministry of Transport and Communications

Located: 301 Oslo

Please note that this event has comments in Norwegian that are for the present not translated into English.

01.01.1985* Change of name

Name: * Information office

Short name: Info.ktr.

01.01.2004* Change of name

Name: * Information section (IS)

Short name: IS

01.01.2010* Change of name

Name: Department for Press and Information

Short name: KA

Please note that this event has comments in Norwegian that are for the present not translated into English.

01.01.2010* New form of affiliation/administrative level

(The unit is reorganized and has changed its form of affiliation/administrative level.)

Affiliations: Ministry

Hierarchical level: Division

01.01.2017* Change of name

Name: The Communication Unit

Short name: KOM

The Communication Unit coordinates and initiates contact with the media and the rest of society, and deals with matters relating to communication within the Ministry.
Source: regjeringen.no - 2017

01.01.2017* New form of affiliation/administrative level

(The unit is reorganized and has changed its form of affiliation/administrative level.)

Hierarchical level: Quasi Department

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.

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