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Labour

It is the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs that has overriding responsibility for the Government’s labour policy.

Department of Civil Society and Sports

The department is responsible for state sports policy and generally for coordinating and harmonising the state’s relations with the voluntary sector. The department administers the surplus generated by Norsk Tipping for sports purposes, socially

Director General Lars Audun Granly

Peace, Security and Development

The 2015 report to the Storting on policy coherence

The Government's latest report to the Storting on policy coherence for development examines how Norwegian policies affect development in fragile states, with particular focus on the security situation in those countries. It concentrates on areas

Key Figures 2016: Overview and rates of direct and indirect taxes

Key figures for the Norwegian economy, main figures of the Fiscal Budget and rates of direct and indirect taxes.

National programme

The Ministry of Agriculture and Food, as well as a number of other ministries, NGOs and firms are pooling resources to facilitate and develop high quality services - all based on farm resources.

The Global Food Challenge

The world population will grow to 9 billion people by 2050. Food production therefore needs to be increased by 70 percent in the same period. This is a major challenge, partly because conditions for agricultural production are altered as a result of

The Gaming and Foundation Authority

The Gaming and Foundation Authority is a governmental body that has two subordinate professional supervisory bodies, the Gaming Authority and the Foundation Authority, which have a joint director and administration.

Web page: https://lottstift.no/en/

KORO – Public Art Norway

KORO - Public Art Norway is the Norwegian government’s professional body for art in public spaces, and is a subordinate governmental agency under the Ministry of Culture and Equality.

Web page: https://koro.no/english/

Subordinate agencies

Ministry of Culture and Equality

The National Archives Services of Norway (The National Archives and the regional state archives)

The National Archives Services comprehend the National Archives, the eight regional state archives, the Sámi Archives and the Norwegian Health Archives.

Web page: https://www.arkivverket.no/en

Immigration and Immigrants 2014–2015

IMO Report for Norway

Report from Norway to the OECD.

Regulations concerning quality assurance and quality development in higher education and tertiary vocational education

Regulations concerning quality assurance and quality development in higher education and tertiary vocational education

Department of Public Security

The Department of Public Security (SAM) is responsible for public security and preparedness, crisis management and security management in the justice sector.

Department director Unni Gunnes

Meld. St. 14 (2015–2016) - Nature for life

Norway’s national biodiversity action plan (Chapter 4–9)

This white paper describes the Government’s policy for safeguarding biodiversity in Norway, which is designed to play a part in achieving biodiversity targets at both national and international level. The white paper describes biodiversity-related

Circular on international child abduction

This circular is intended for lawyers and judges working on international child abduction cases, but also contains information and guidance of use to other public authorities that may become involved in this type of case. The circular also contains

Status for follow-up of the strategy for combating work-related crime

This report provides an overview of the status for implementation of the measures in the Government’s strategy for combating work-related crime. The report was revised on 1 August 2015.

The strategy for combating work-related crime

The Government presents here a strategy for strengthening of efforts to combat work-related crime.

NOU 2015: 15 - Environmental Pricing (Summary)

Report from a Green Tax Commission

Chapter 1 Executive summary (50,4 kB) Chapter 2 The Commission (63,8 kB) Chapter 3 Summary (225,1 kB) Chapter 12 The recommendations of the Commission (100,6 kB)