Department for Pollution Control
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Director General Vidar Vik
Head of Department for Marine Management and Pollution Control
E-mail vidar.vik@kld.dep.no
Phone +47 22 24 58 52
Mobile phone: +47 452 80 994
The department consists of the following sections
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Department Secretariat
The Department Secretariat is responsible for the department's work on the national budget, financial management, grant management, reporting, central government accounts and its own accounts. It contributes to the management of the Norwegian Environment Agency, the Norwegian Maritime Authority and the Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, provides leadership support in personnel management and coordinates/handles administrative matters for the department.
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Section for EEA and Trade
The section has chief responsibility for the Ministry's follow-up of the EEA Agreement, EFTA and the Nordic Council of Ministers, as well as the EEA and Norway Grants, and the Nordic environmental financing institution NEFCO. It is also responsible for environmental aspects of trade agreements, the Environmental Information Act, the Aarhus Convention and state aid.
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Section for Waste and Resource Efficiency
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.
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Section for Sustainable Products
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.
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Section for Pollution Control and Green Shipping
The section is responsible for international cooperation, including with the EU/EEA, and development of national policy within the field of pollution. The section is responsible for international work, EU/EEA work and national policy development within the field of pollution. This applies, among other things, to polluting emissions from industry, mining, agriculture, aquaculture and sewage, and long-range air pollution. The section is also responsible for work on green shipping nationally and internationally. The section has special responsibility for the Pollution Control Act.