Departments

The Department of Administrative Affairs

Department director: Director general Knut Løkstad

Communication

Department director: Acting Head of Communication Christine Spersrud Haug

Ownership Department

Department director: Director General Jan Tore Føsund

Economic Policy Department

Department director: Director General Wenche Stenberg

Maritime Department

The Maritime Department has overall responsibility for the Ministry's work on maritime industry policies: shipping, shipyards, and maritime equipment and service providers. The Department is responsible for the work on maritime legislation in IMO, ILO and the EU and for national maritime regulations, and has responsibility for the management of the Norwegian Maritime Authority. Maritime Department is responsible for maritime related elements in bilateral agreements and within the WTO as well as international maritime market developments. The departement follows the EU maritime work and takes care of the follow-up of the government's Maritime strategy, policies for the environment, research/innovation and maritime skills, maritime financial instruments and short sea shipping.

Department director: Director Birgit Løyland

Trade Policy Department

The Trade Policy Department is responsible for bilateral free trade agreements, promotion of Norwegian businesses abroad, trade in seafood, the officially supported export credits system and for contributing to the development of the EU/EEA single market.

Department director: Director General Erling Rimestad

Research and Innovation Department

Department director: Director General Cathrine Meland

Department for Aquaculture

The Department for Aquaculture is responsible for all matters related to the aquaculture industry. There is a wide range of topics in the department's portfolio, aquaculture policy and management, environmental sustainability of the aquaculture industry including fish health and –welfare, and licensing rules.

Department director: Director General Yngve Torgersen

Department for Fisheries

The Department for Fisheries is responsible for matters related to fisheries. There is a wide range of topics in the department's portfolio, including quota negotiations and international fisheries agreements, IUU fishing, regulation of and the right to engage in fishing, regulation of the fishing fleet.

Department director: Director General Vidar Landmark

Department of Competition Policy, Company Law and Economic Analysis

The Department has the overall responsibility for competition policy, corporate law and economic analysis.

Department director: Director General Camilla Bretteville Froyn