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Use of wood

Wood is a renewable and climate friendly raw material that is increasingly in demand. It is a goal to increase the use of wood to replace materials with a more detrimental impact on the climate.

Disability Benefits

Disability benefits from the National Insurance Scheme are intended to secure income for individuals whose earning capacity has been permanently reduced due to illness, injury, or defect.

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Ministry of Culture and Equality

Libraries

Everyone should have access to art and culture, no matter where they live. Making literature and books available to everyone in Norway is an important part of this.

Admission to studies

The Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research determines rules for admission to education.

Sanctions and restrictive measures

The UN Security Council can impose sanctions that are legally binding under international law on states, persons or entities.

Deputy to the Norwegian Prime Minister

The system of an appointed deputy to the prime minister has been in use in two governments where the prime minister has wanted to give the leader of the second largest government party a clear rank as number two. It was the case during the last

Seeds shipped from Nigeria february 2008

From Ibadan, Nigeria, twenty-one boxes filled with 7,000 unique seed samples from more than 36 African nations are shipped to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. All photo: The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture i Nigeria (IITA). Cowpea

The Opening Seremony 26.02.2008

Click on the picture for a larger format. All photo: Mari Tefre/Svalbard Global Seed Vault The Entrance of Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg Carry Fowler, executive director of Global Crop Diversity Trust,

Gardermoen 08.02.2008

All photo: Ole G. Hertzenberg Minister of Agriculture and Food Terje Riis-Johansen. Terje Riis-Johansen. Seeds.

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What is Norway’s export control system?

Norway’s export control system is intended to ensure that defence-related products, technology and services are exported only from Norway in accordance with Norwegian security and defence policy. It also aims to prevent exports of dual-use items

Subordinate institutions

Subordinate institutions

OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

The OECD is an intergovernmental organization focused on economic, social, and environmental development in democratic states. The OECD has 34 member countries. The Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion participates in the Employment, Labour and

Cultural cooperation in the High North

The Ministry of Culture supports cultural collaboration in Norway’s three northernmost counties, and internationally, through its funding of Norwegian-Russian cultural cooperation projects and other international initiatives.

Agreement Norway - Uruguay

Fund Performance

GPFG annual geometric average return. Measured in the currency basket. Per cent 2023 Last 5 years Last 10 years Last 20 years GPFG Portfolio 13,09 7,44 7,25 6,71 Benchmark index 13,53 7,15 6,99 6,52 Excess return (percentage points)1 -0,45 0,29 0,26

Agriculture, fishing and foodstuffs

Domestic and leisure equipment