Ministry of the Environment (Norway)

Ministry of the Environment (Norway)

The Royal Norwegian Ministry of the Environment (Norwegian: Miljøverndepartementet) is a Norwegian ministry established in 1972. The ministry is responsible for environmental issues in Norway. It is led by the Minister of the Environment, currently Erik Solheim (Socialist Left Party). The department must report to the legislature (Stortinget).

Contents

Organisation

The ministry is divided into the following section:[1]

  • Political staff
  • Information section
  • Department for Cultural Heritage Management
  • Department for International Cooperation
  • Department for Nature Management
  • Department for Organizational and Economic Affairs
  • Department for Pollution Control
  • Department for Regional Planning

Political staff

Subsidiaries

Under the ministry there are six administrative agencies[4]

References

  1. ^ Norwegian Ministry of the Environment. "About the Ministry". Archived from the original on 2006-08-24. http://web.archive.org/web/20060824005110/http://odin.dep.no/md/english/ministry/org/bn.html. Retrieved 2007-01-28. 
  2. ^ Norwegian Ministry of the Environment. "Minister of the Environment". Archived from the original on 2007-02-06. http://web.archive.org/web/20070206041236/http://www.odin.dep.no/md/english/ministry/minister/bn.html. Retrieved 2007-01-28. 
  3. ^ Norwegian Ministry of the Environment. "Senior political staff". http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/md/dep/politisk_ledelse.html?id=690. Retrieved 2010-05-28. 
  4. ^ Norwegian Ministry of the Environment. "Subordinate agencies". Archived from the original on 2006-08-31. http://web.archive.org/web/20060831071024/http://odin.dep.no/md/english/ministry/org/agencies/bn.html. Retrieved 2007-01-28. 

See also

List of Norwegian Ministers of the Environment

External links


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