Ministry of Trade and Industry (Norway)
The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry (Norwegian: Nærings- og handelsdepartementet) was a Norwegian ministry responsible for business, trade and industry. On 1 January 2014 it was merged into Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries.[1] From 2013 it was led by Monica Mæland (Conservative Party), who continued as minister of trade, industry and fisheries from 2014 to 2018.
History
The Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Shipping, Industry, Craft and Fisheries was created on 1 October 1916. After this, the ministry underwent several name changes: to Ministry of Trade, Shipping and Industry on 1 July 1946, to Ministry of Industry, Craft and Shipping on 6 December 1947, to Ministry of Industry and Craft on 1 January 1955, to Ministry of Industry 1 January 1988, to Ministry of Industry and Energy on 1 January 1993 and to Ministry of Trade and Industry on 1 January 1997.[2]
Organisation
The Ministry of Trade and Industry has six departments. The Press and Communications Division is part of the Secretary General's staff.
The Ministry is headed by the Minister of Trade and Industry. The other political staff consists of three State Secretaries and one Political Advisor.
The ministry is divided into the following sections:[3]
- Political staff
- Information section
- Department of Planning, Administration and Economic affairs
- Department of Ownership
- Department of Trade and Industrial Economics
- Department of Research and Innovation Politics
- Department of Regulations and Shipping
- Department of Entrepreneurship and Internationalization
Political staff
- Minister Monica Mæland (Conservative)
- State Secretary Eirik Lae Solberg (Conservative)
- State Secretary Dilek Ayhan (Conservative)
Subsidiaries
Subordinate government agencies:[4]
- Brønnøysund Register Centre
- Guarantee Institute for Export Credits
- Norwegian Accreditation
- Norwegian Directorate of Mining with the Commissioner of Mines at Svalbard
- Norwegian Maritime Directorate
- Norwegian Metrology Service
- Norwegian Geological Survey
- Norwegian Patent Office
- Norwegian Ship Registers
- Norwegian Space Centre
Other agencies associated with the department:[5]
- BEDIN
- Euro Info Centre
- Industrial Development Corporation of Norway
- Innovation Norway
- Master Craftsman Committee
- Norwegian Design Council
- Norwegian Export Credit Agency
- The Research Council of Norway
- Standards Norway
Wholly owned limited companies:[6]
- Argentum Fondsinvesteringer
- BaneTele
- Bjørnøen
- Electronic Chart Centre
- Entra Eiendom
- Flytoget
- Innovation Norway
- Kings Bay
- Mesta
- Industrial Development Corporation of Norway
- Statkraft
- Venturefondet
- Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani
Partially owned public limited companies:[6]
- Telenor (54,0%)
- Kongsberg Gruppen (50,0%)
- Nammo (50,0%)
- Norsk Hydro (43,8%)
- Cermaq (43,5%)
- Yara International (36,2%)
- DnB NOR (34,0%)
- Aker Holding (30.0%, and thus indirectly 12% of Aker Kværner)
- Eksportfinans (15,0%)
- SAS Group (14,3%)
List of ministers
Key
Labour Party
Conservative Party
Agrarian Party
Liberal Party
Free-minded Liberal Party
Labour Democrats
Ministers of Trade (1903–1945)
Photo | Name | Party | Took office | Left office | Tenure | Cabinet |
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Otto Blehr | Liberal | 1 January 1903 | 22 October 1903 | 294 days | Blehr I | |
Jacob Schøning | Liberal | 22 October 1903 | 1 September 1904 | 315 days | Hagerup II | |
Paul B. Vogt | Conservative | 1 September 1904 | 11 March 1905 | 191 days | Hagerup II | |
Sofus Arctander | Liberal | 11 March 1905 | 19 March 1908 | 3 years, 8 days | Michelsen Løvland | |
Lars Abrahamsen | Liberal | 19 March 1908 | 2 February 1910 | 1 year, 320 days | Knudsen I | |
Sofus Arctander | Free-minded Liberal | 2 February 1910 | 11 June 1910 | 129 days | ||
Bernhard Brænne | Conservative | 11 June 1910 | 20 February 1912 | 1 year, 254 days | Konow | |
Ambortius Lindvig | Free-minded Liberal | 20 February 1912 | 31 January 1913 | 346 days | ||
Johan Castberg | Labour Democrats | 31 January 1913 | 1 July 1913 | 151 days | ||
Kristian Friis Petersen | Liberal | 1 October 1916 | 20 February 1919 | 2 years, 142 days | Knudsen II | |
Birger Stuevold-Hansen | Liberal | 20 February 1919 | 21 June 1920 | 1 year, 122 days | Knudsen II | |
Gerdt Henrik Meyer Bruun | Conservative | 21 June 1920 | 22 June 1921 | 1 year, 1 day | Bahr Halvorsen I | |
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel | Liberal | 22 June 1921 | 20 October 1922[a] | 1 year, 120 days | Blehr II | |
Lars Oftedal | Liberal | 20 October 1922 | 6 March 1923 | 135 days | Blehr II | |
Johan Rye Holmboe | Free-minded Liberal | 6 March 1923 | 25 July 1924 | 1 year, 141 days | ||
Lars O. Meling | Liberal | 25 July 1924 | 5 March 1926 | 1 year, 223 days | Mowinckel I | |
Charles Robertson | Conservative | 5 March 1926 | 28 January 1928 | 1 year, 329 days | Lykke | |
Anton L. Alvestad | Labour | 28 January 1928 | 15 February 1928 | 18 days | Hornsrud | |
Lars Oftedal | Liberal | 15 February 1928 | 12 May 1931 | 3 years, 86 days | Mowinckel II | |
Per Larssen | Agrarian | 12 May 1931 | 14 March 1932 | 307 days | Kolstad | |
Ivar Kirkeby-Garstad | Agrarian | 14 March 1932 | 3 March 1933 | 354 days | Hundseid | |
Lars O. Meling | Liberal | 3 March 1933 | 20 March 1935 | 2 years, 17 days | Mowinckel III | |
Alfred Madsen | Labour | 20 March 1935 | 1 July 1939 | 4 years, 103 days | Nygaardsvold | |
Trygve Lie | Labour | 1 July 1939 | 2 October 1939 | 93 days | Nygaardsvold | |
Anders Frihagen | Labour | 2 October 1939 | 7 June 1940 | 249 days | Nygaardsvold | |
Terje Wold | Labour | 7 June 1940 | 15 April 1942 | 1 year, 312 days | Nygaardsvold | |
Anders Frihagen | Labour | 15 April 1942 | 1 October 1942 | 169 days | Nygaardsvold | |
Olav Hindahl | Labour | 1 October 1942 | 12 March 1945 | 2 years, 162 days | Nygaardsvold | |
Sven Nielsen | Conservative | 12 March 1945 | 25 June 1945 | 105 days | Nygaardsvold |
Ministers of Industry (1945–1987)
Photo | Name | Party | Took office | Left office | Tenure | Cabinet | Ref |
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Lars Evensen[b][7] | Labour | 25 June 1945 | 2 November 1953 | 8 years, 130 days | Gerhardsen I-II Torp |
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Nils Handal | Labour | 2 November 1953 | 22 January 1955 | 1 year, 81 days | Torp | [8] | |
Gustav Sjaastad | Labour | 22 January 1955 | 9 April 1959 | 4 years, 77 days | Gerhardsen III | [9] | |
Kjell Holler | Labour | 9 April 1959 | 4 July 1963 | 4 years, 86 days | Gerhardsen III | [9] | |
Trygve Lie | Labour | 4 July 1963 | 28 August 1963 | 55 days | Gerhardsen III | [9] | |
Kaare Meland | Conservative | 28 August 1963 | 25 September 1963 | 28 days | Lyng | ||
Trygve Lie | Labour | 25 September 1963 | 20 January 1964 | 117 days | Gerhardsen IV | ||
Karl Trasti | Labour | 20 January 1964 | 12 October 1965 | 1 year, 265 days | Gerhardsen IV | ||
Sverre W. Rostoft | Conservative | 12 October 1965 | 17 March 1971 | 5 years, 156 days | Borten | ||
Finn Lied | Labour | 17 March 1971 | 18 October 1972 | 1 year, 215 days | Bratteli I | ||
Ola Skjåk Bræk | Liberal | 18 October 1972 | 16 October 1973 | 363 days | Korvald | ||
Ingvald J. Ulvseth | Labour | 16 October 1973 | 15 January 1976 | 2 years, 91 days | Bratteli II | ||
Bjartmar Gjerde | Labour | 15 January 1976 | 11 January 1978 | 1 year, 361 days | Nordli | ||
Olav Haukvik | Labour | 11 January 1978 | 8 October 1979 | 1 year, 270 days | Nordli | ||
Lars Skytøen | Labour | 8 October 1979 | 4 February 1981 | 1 year, 119 days | Nordli | ||
Finn Kristensen | Labour | 4 February 1981 | 14 October 1981 | 252 days | Brundtland I | ||
Jens-Halvard Bratz | Conservative | 14 October 1981 | 16 September 1983 | 1 year, 337 days | Willoch I Willoch II |
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Jan P. Syse | Conservative | 16 September 1983 | 4 October 1985 | 2 years, 18 days | Willoch II | ||
Petter Thomassen | Conservative | 4 October 1985 | 9 May 1986 | 217 days | Willoch II | ||
Finn Kristensen | Labour | 9 May 1986 | 31 December 1987 | 1 year, 236 days | Brundtland II |
Ministers of Industry (1988–1993)
Photo | Name | Party | Took office | Left office | Tenure | Cabinet |
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Finn Kristensen | Labour | 1 January 1988 | 16 October 1989 | 1 year, 288 days | Brundtland II | |
Petter Thomassen | Conservative | 16 October 1989 | 3 November 1990 | 1 year, 18 days | Syse | |
Ole Knapp | Labour | 3 November 1990 | 4 September 1992 | 1 year, 306 days | Brundtland III | |
Finn Kristensen | Labour | 4 September 1992 | 1 January 1993 | 119 days | Brundtland III |
Ministers of Industry and Energy (1993–1996)
Photo | Name | Party | Took office | Left office | Tenure | Cabinet |
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Finn Kristensen | Labour | 1 January 1993 | 7 October 1993 | 273 days | Brundtland III | |
Jens Stoltenberg | Labour | 7 October 1993 | 25 October 1996 | 3 years, 18 days | Brundtland III | |
Grete Knudsen | Labour | 25 October 1996 | 1 January 1997 | 68 days | Jagland[c] |
Ministers of Trade and Industry (1997-present)
Photo | Name | Party | Took office | Left office | Tenure | Cabinet |
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Grete Knudsen | Labour | 1 January 1997 | 17 October 1997 | 289 days | Jagland | |
Lars Sponheim | Liberal | 17 October 1997 | 17 March 2000 | 2 years, 152 days | Bondevik I | |
Grete Knudsen | Labour | 17 March 2000 | 19 October 2001 | 1 year, 216 days | Stoltenberg I | |
Ansgar Gabrielsen | Conseravtive | 19 October 2001 | 18 June 2004 | 2 years, 243 days | Bondevik II | |
Børge Brende | Conseravtive | 18 June 2004 | 17 October 2005 | 1 year, 121 days | Bondevik II | |
Odd Eriksen | Labour | 17 October 2005 | 29 September 2006 | 347 days | Stoltenberg II | |
Dag Terje Andersen | Labour | 29 September 2006 | 20 June 2008 | 1 year, 273 days | Stoltenberg II | |
Sylvia Brustad | Labour | 20 June 2008 | 20 October 2009 | 1 year, 122 days | Stoltenberg II | |
Trond Giske | Labour | 20 October 2009 | 16 October 2013 | 3 years, 361 days | Stoltenberg II | |
Monica Mæland | Conseravtive | 16 October 2013 | 17 January 2018 | 4 years, 93 days | Solberg | |
Torbjørn Røe Isaksen | Conseravtive | 17 January 2018 | 24 January 2020 | 2 years, 7 days | Solberg | |
Iselin Nybø | Liberal | 24 January 2020 | present | 4 years, 333 days | Solberg |
References
- ^ Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries
- ^ "Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry". Government.no. Retrieved 2010-05-21.
- ^ Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry. "Organisasjon" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2007-06-26.
- ^ Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry. "Underliggende etater" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2007-06-26.
- ^ Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry. "Tilknyttede virksomheter" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2007-06-26.
- ^ a b Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry. "Statens eierskap" (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 2007-08-12. Retrieved 2007-06-26.
- ^ a b "Einar Gerhardsen's Second Government". Government.no. Retrieved 2010-05-21.
- ^ "Oscar Torp's Cabinet". Government.no. 12 February 2020. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
- ^ a b c "Einar Gerhardsen's Third Cabinet". Government.no. 12 February 2020. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
Notes
- ^ Acting until 20 October while serving as foreign minister.
- ^ Arne Drogseth was acting minister for Evensen from 29 June to 11 November 1951. Erik Brofoss was also acting minister for Evensen from 18 May to 15 September 1953.
- ^ Minister responsible for energy cases.
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