Norwegian Pollution Control Authority

Tasks and Responsibilities

The Norwegian Pollution Control Authority (SFT) is a subordinate agency of the Ministry of the Environment. Our goal is to promote sustainable development, i.e. to ensure that pollution, hazardous substances or waste do not reduce our well-being or harms nature's own ability to renew itself. We are giving priority to work on climate change and the effects of energy consumption, chemicals which are harmful to health and the environment, and environmental problems in built-up areas, since these are some of the most serious threats to sustainable development. Our power of authority are laid down in the Pollution Control Act, the Product Control Act and regulations connected to the acts.

Our tasks:

• Monitoring and providing information about environmental development
• Providing the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment with advice, assessments and expert support
• Exercising authority through regulations and control measures
• Assessing the degree to which the different sectors of society have achieved their environmental goals
• Instructing and guiding county governors within the SFT’s area of responsibility
• Promoting Norwegian objectives in international environmental co-operation helping to improve the efficiency of the environmental protection work of developing countries

  We recognise that the traditional tools of the environmental sector alone are not enough to achieve sustainable development. To help create such a development, we will put more emphasis on sustainable production and consumption and we will increase our efforts in the international arena.

  

  Ongoing Projects
  
  

  Country		Project		Theme
  China		Capacity building in Environmental Bureau in China		Capacity building Pollution

  
  
  Finished Projects
  
  

  Country		Project		Theme
  Botswana		Industrial Pollution Prevention (IPP) in Botswana		Pollution
  Mozambique		Industrial Pollution Prevention and Control in Mozambique		Pollution
  Namibia		Pollution Control and Waste Management Programme in Namibia		Waste Water
  South Africa		Establishment of a centre for environmental information and statistics in South Africa		Environmental management Environmental monitoring
  South Africa		Institutional co-operation between DEAT and SFT		Air pollution Capacity building Pollution
  South Africa		Institutional co-operation between eThekwini Municipality (Durban) and SFT		Air pollution Capacity building Pollution
  Vietnam		Institutional co-operation between Petrovietnam and SFT		Capacity building Chemicals Marine waters Pollution
  Zambia		Industrial Pollution Programme in Zambia		Pollution

  
  
  
  

  Last updated 26 February 2007