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The new Directorate for Export Control and Sanctions will strengthen the authorities’ control and focus on international sanctions and export control.

A contract has been entered into. After a thorough competition process, the client has selected the supplier with the best offer. Along the way in the contractual relationship, what can happen happens – the supplier does not fulfill the contractual obligations. What scope of action does the client then have?

Before the New Year, the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, now the Ministry of Energy, submitted Prop. 33 L (2023-2024) on amendments to the Watercourse Regulation Act and the Energy Act to strengthen security of supply to the Storting. The bill is being considered by the Storting’s Energy and Environment Committee, which will submit its recommendation by February 13, 2024. The bill fol-lows up on the government’s proposal for a new governance mechanism.