Konkurransetilsynet

The Norwegian Competition Authority is working to promote healthy competition for the benefit of consumers, business and industry

The Norwegian Competition Authority’s principal task is to enforce Norway’s Competition Act:

• Monitor adherence by business and industry to the Competition Act’s prohibitions against competition-restricting cooperation and abuse of a dominant market position.
• Ensure that mergers, acquisitions and other business combinations do not significantly restrict competition.
• Implement measures to increase the transparency of markets.
• Enforce Articles 53 and 54 of the EEA Agreement.
• Identify laws, rules and governmental measures that have undesirable effects on competition.

The Norwegian Competition Authority can fine businesses for Competition Act violations. Norway’s current Competition Act came into force on 1 May 2004.

The Public Procurement Complaints Board (KOFA) is a national complaints board which decides whether public awarding bodies have violated the public procurement rules. The main purpose is to get the greatest value from society’s resources.

The board’s secretariat is placed, administratively, under the Norwegian Competition Authority in Bergen.