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our international work
working to reduce pollution
The most urgent environmental problems of our time
are international in character. The battle to reduce
pollution can only be won through international
cooperation.
Long Range Transboundary Air
Pollution (LRTAP)
• develop and participate in bilateral
cooperation within our fields of
expertise. To date we have cooperated with sister agencies and others
in Botswana, China, Kazakhstan,
Namibia, Poland, Russia, South
Africa, Vietnam and Zambia.
• provide expert advice to the
Norwegian Ministry of Foreign
Affairs on regional and global
environmental cooperation. This
includes appraisals and reviews of
programmes and projects.
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We therefore:
• participate actively in fora and
organisations such as the EU as part
of the Europeen Economic Area, the
European Environment Agency
(EEA), the UN (UNEP, UNECE,
UNFCC etc.), the OECD, the Arctic
Council, the Nordic Council of
Ministers, the Barents Cooperation
• contribute towards the implementation of international agreements
such as the Stockholm Convention,
the Basel Convention, the Rotterdam
Convention, the Århus Convention,
the Montreal Protocol, the Kyoto
Protocol, the Oslo-Paris Convention
(OSPAR) and the Convention on
For further information about SFT and our work, please visit:
• SFT’s website
www.sft.no/english
• State of the Environment Norway
www.environment.no
• Norwegian Environmental Catalogue
www.miljoreferanser.no
SFT’s publication order service:
All SFT’s and the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment’s
publications are available from SFT’s publication order service
telephone +47 22 57 34 00 or e-mail: [email protected]
TA-2264/2007
ISBN 978 82 7655 510 3
Norwegian Pollution Control Authority (SFT)
P.O. Box 8100 Dep, 0032 Oslo
Visiting address: Strømsveien 96
2264
2007
Our vision is a
future without pollution
Director General
Department of
Climate and Industry
Department of
Chemicals and Local
Environmental Management
Department of
Administration and
Information
Department of
Control, Water and
International Affairs
who we are
our goals and tasks
sft’s fields of expertise
The Norwegian Pollution Control Authority (SFT) is
a government agency. We report to the Ministry of the
Environment. SFT was established in 1974.
We are working to ensure that pollution, hazardous substances,
waste and products do not cause health problems, affect people’s
well being or harm nature’s own powers of regeneration.
We have therefore more than
30 years experience in reducing
existing pollution and preventing
future environmental problems.
We have 270 staff with professional qualifications ranging from
economics and law to Information Technology and the natural
sciences.
SFT’s main fields of responsibility
include marine and fresh water
pollution, hazardous chemicals,
regulation of industry, waste
management, noise, air pollution
and climate change.
SFT is headed by a Director
General and divided into four
departments.
The main legal basis for SFT’s work
is The Pollution Control Act, the
Product Control Act and the Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading Act.
Within the above areas of work our
main tasks are:
•monitoring and providing information about environmental
developments
• exercising authority through
regulations and control measures
• instructing and guiding the county
governors within SFT’s area of
responsibility
•providing the Norwegian Ministry
of the Environment with advice,
assessments and expert support
and identifying the need for further
environmental initiatives
• participating in international
environmental cooperation and
development work.
Regulation of industry
including the
petroleum sector
Environmental
monitoring
and information
permitting systems, compliance monitoring systems,
Pollution Release and Transfer Registers (PRTRs)
environmental monitoring, state of the environment
reporting, presentation and dissemination of
environmental information
Climate change
development of measures, strategies, policy instruments
etc, Cleaner Development Mechanisms (CDMs),
emission trading schemes/quota systems
Chemicals
chemicals management, chemicals in products, regulation
Hazardous waste
Waste
Water and sanitation
Air pollution
Transport
development and implementation of legal framework,
regulation
development and implementation of policies, strategies,
national targets, integrated waste planning, electric and
electronic waste (WEEE)
integrated water resource management, regulation
monitoring, reporting and communication of data,
air quality management, abatement planning
surveys, abatement measures