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Department for Regional Affairs

The department is responsible for ensuring that Norwegian international development policy is designed to promote the achievement of the UN Millennium Development Goals and is in keeping with the Norwegian Government’s priorities. It is also

Director General Signe Brudeset

Department of Competition Policy and Economic Analysis

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

Director General Camilla Bretteville

Department of Digitalisation Policy

The department has coordination responsibility for the public administration policy and the national ICT policy, for parts of the data protection policy and for electronic communications. The responsibility includes work on digitalisation and

Director General Siri Halvorsen

Social dumping

Increased labour immigration has led to problems with social dumping in some industries. Social dumping is deemed to be present both if foreign employees are subject to breaches of health, safety and working environment regulations and if they are

Occupational Injury

Occupational injury is defined personal injury, illness or death as a result of an occupational accident. Illness may be approved as occupational illness if it was caused by harmful exposure at work.

Asset Management Department

The Asset Management Departmentis responsible for the Ministry’s work on the Government Pension Fund. The work on strengthening the management of the funds is central to the Ministry of Finance and the department's responsibilities include

Director General Espen Erlandsen

The foundation for Sami policy

National laws and international conventions set the obligations towards the Sami population.

The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous peoples

The UN General Assembly adopted a joint declaration on indigenous peoples on 13. September 2007. The declaration was drawn up in close collaboration between states and various indigenous groups.

Medical devices – a key part of health care

Medical devices include all equipment intended to diagnose, prevent, monitor, treat or alleviate disease, injury or disability in humans.

Nordic Sami Convention

Norway, Sweden and Finland have concluded negotiations on a Nordic Sami Convention. The negotiating leaders initialled the negotiated text of the convention on 13 January 2017. The proposal is now being considered by the Sami parliaments and the

The use of the Sámi language in the public administration

Active and wider use of the Sámi language is a very important element in the further development of Sámi culture. Similarly, it is also important that the Sámi language is used in the public context.

Department of Communications

The Ministry of Children and Families is committed to openness. It takes an active approach to informational work, publishing accurate information in a timely fashion and providing updated reports at www.regjeringen.no/bfd. Media inquiries and

Head of Communications Kari Westersund

The Communication Unit

The Communication Unit coordinates communication by the Ministry.This includes media relations and monitoring, strategic communication with the sector and advising the Ministry’s departments and political leadership. The Communication Unit is also

Head of communications Line Torvik

Internal Auditor Unit

The Internal Auditor will contribute to the overall achievement of defence objectives by providing support to the Ministry’s senior management in controlling and managing subordinate departments and agencies.

Deputy Director General Liss Johansen

Directorate of Immigration

Web page: http://www.udi.no/

lmmigration Appeals Board

Web page: http://www.une.no/

Other political staff for the Minister of Fisheries and Ocean Policy

Other political staff