{"id":331975,"date":"2019-01-10T12:22:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T11:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/?p=331975"},"modified":"2021-02-05T09:58:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T08:58:55","slug":"new-tasks-for-norways-national-contact-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/news\/new-tasks-for-norways-national-contact-point\/","title":{"rendered":"New tasks for Norway&#8217;s National Contact Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text-wrap post-content clearfix\"><p>Norway\u2019s National Contact Point (NCP) provides advice and guidance to Norwegian multinational enterprises operating in and out of Norway. The NCP is an impartial independent public body chaired by professor dr. Juris Ola Mestad. The NCP also handles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.responsiblebusiness.no\/dialogue-and-mediation\/how-to-submit-a-complaint\/\">complaints<\/a> against Norwegian enterprises on alleged non-observance of the Guidelines.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_330919\" style=\"max-width: 400px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft size-medium-half\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-330919 \" src=\"https:\/\/files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/wpuploads01\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2019\/01\/hagen-marianne-ii-400x289.jpg\" alt=\"statssekret\u00e6r Marianne Hagen\" width=\"400\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/wpuploads01\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2019\/01\/hagen-marianne-ii-400x289.jpg 400w, https:\/\/files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/wpuploads01\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2019\/01\/hagen-marianne-ii-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/wpuploads01\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2019\/01\/hagen-marianne-ii-768x555.jpg 768w, https:\/\/files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/wpuploads01\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2019\/01\/hagen-marianne-ii-1024x739.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/wpuploads01\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2019\/01\/hagen-marianne-ii-1130x816.jpg 1130w, https:\/\/files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/wpuploads01\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2019\/01\/hagen-marianne-ii-1500x1083.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/wpuploads01\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2019\/01\/hagen-marianne-ii-800x578.jpg 800w, https:\/\/files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/wpuploads01\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2019\/01\/hagen-marianne-ii-1320x953.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Secretary Marianne Hagen of Norways Ministry of Foreign Affairs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries have adopted a <a href=\"https:\/\/files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/wpuploads01\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2019\/01\/EN-Mandat-Kontaktpunktet-2018.pdf\">new mandate<\/a> for Norway\u2019s NCP and their tasks on promoting responsible business conduct, in line with the OECD Guidelines for multinational enterprises. With the new mandate, Norway has established a formal complaint mechanism for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilo.org\/empent\/Publications\/WCMS_094386\/lang--en\/index.htm\">ILO Tripartite Declaration<\/a> of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy.<\/p>\n<p>Norway\u2019s NCP is considered to be a well-functioning body, and part of an international system with <a href=\"http:\/\/mneguidelines.oecd.org\/ncps\/\">NCPs in 48 countries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.regjeringen.no\/globalassets\/departementene\/ud\/vedlegg\/naringsliv\/kp_mandat_engelsk.pdf\">the mandate here.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_385551\" style=\"max-width: 2560px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-385551 \" src=\"https:\/\/files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/wpuploads01\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2020\/08\/FNA_080419_0280-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/wpuploads01\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2020\/08\/FNA_080419_0280-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/wpuploads01\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2020\/08\/FNA_080419_0280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/wpuploads01\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2020\/08\/FNA_080419_0280-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/wpuploads01\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2020\/08\/FNA_080419_0280-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/wpuploads01\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2020\/08\/FNA_080419_0280-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/wpuploads01\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2020\/08\/FNA_080419_0280-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/wpuploads01\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2020\/08\/FNA_080419_0280-432x288.jpg 432w, https:\/\/files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/wpuploads01\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2020\/08\/FNA_080419_0280-1130x753.jpg 1130w, https:\/\/files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/wpuploads01\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2020\/08\/FNA_080419_0280-1500x1000.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/wpuploads01\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2020\/08\/FNA_080419_0280-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/wpuploads01\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2020\/08\/FNA_080419_0280-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/files.nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/wpuploads01\/blogs.dir\/263\/files\/2020\/08\/FNA_080419_0280-1320x880.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Norway NCP (from left): Cathrine Dehli, Frode Elgesem (chair), Beate Ekel\u00f8ve-Slydal and Gro Granden (not present).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norway&#8217;s National Contact Point (NCP) for responsible business conduct is a unique expert body that has an important task to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":323,"featured_media":330919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"language":"en-GB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331975"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386253,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331975\/revisions\/386253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}