The Office of the Auditor General of Norway ( no, Riksrevisjonen) is the state

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of the

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and directly subordinate of the

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. It is responsible for

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, monitoring and advising all state economic activities, including financial audits,

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s and corporate control. Located in Oslo, it is led by a

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of five auditors general elected for four years and from 2014 it has been led by Per-Kristian Foss. It is regulated by the ''Auditor General Act of June 1, 2005''. The office has about 460 employees, mostly recruited among

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s and

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History

The office dates back to 1814 when the

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§75 stated that there were to be appointed five auditors by the Parliament of Norway with the first auditors being appointed in 1816. In 1822 the Ministry of Auditing (''Revisjonsdepartementet'') was created as a supplement to the office that originally bore the name ''Statsrevisjonen'' (lit. ''the State Auditing''). When the current

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opened in 1866 the office followed along and stayed in the building until 1890. In 1918 the system is changed and all state auditing is taken over by the office, removing the ministry. In 1938, with 64 against 63 votes, the Parliament of Norway changed the office's name to the current ''Riksrevisjonen'' (lit. ''the National Auditing''). In 1962 the auditing of the

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, Telegrafverket and the Postal Service were included in the office.

Auditor Generals

The Auditor General is the head of the Office. *1816–1821 :

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*1821–1827 :

Frederik Motzfeldt Frederik Motzfeldt (2 November 1779 – 2 January 1848) was a Norwegian politician. He was a member of the Norwegian Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll in 1814. Motzfeldt was born at Skaun in Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. He was raised in Trondhjem ...

*1827–1834 :

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*1827–1845 :

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*1834–1846 :

Søren Anton Wilhelm Sørenssen Søren Anton Wilhelm Sørenssen (22 August 1793 – 28 June 1853) was a Norwegian jurist and politician. Sørenssen was born at Drammen in Buskerud, Norway. He was a supreme court lawyer in Oslo from 1822 to 1839. He led the impeachment cases aga ...

*1848–1854 :

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*1854–1881 :

Peter Daniel B. W. Kildal Peter Daniel Baade Wind Kildal (4 October 1816 – 16 March 1881) was a Norwegian politician. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1857, 1862, 1865, 1868 and 1871. He represented the constituency of ''Christiania, Hønefoss og Kongsv ...

*1882–1883 :

Peder Krabbe Gaarder Peder Krabbe Gaarder (23 April 1814 – 5 August 1883) was a Norwegian jurist and political theorist. He was born at Alstahaug in Nordland, Norway. He studied law at the University of Christiania (now University of Oslo), graduating in 1838. He w ...

*1883–1898 :

Hagbard Berner Hagbart (or Hagbard) Emanuel Berner (12 September 1839 – 24 January 1920) was a Norwegian lawyer, Liberal Party politician and newspaper editor. He was one of Norway's leading liberal progressives of his time. He represented the Liberal Party a ...

*1898–1923 :

Svend Borchmann Hersleb Vogt Svend Vogt. Svend Borchmann Hersleb Vogt (10 February 1852 – 4 February 1923) was a Norwegian jurist and politician for the Conservative Party. He was born in Kristiania as the son of Nils Lorentz Vogt and his wife Karen Johanne Holmboe.< ...

*1923–1925 : Tore Embretsen Aaen *1926–1949 : Hans T. H. Lütken *1949–1950 :

Saamund Olsen Bergland Saamund Olsen Bergland (24 May 1881 – ?) was a Norwegian state auditor and politician. He was born in Fyresdal to Ole Torkelsen Vatnedal and Anne Saamundsdatter Nedrebø. He was elected representative to the Storting The Storting ( no, St ...

*1950–1978 :

Lars Breie Lars Breie (3 April 1907 – 5 October 1999) was a Norwegian jurist, auditor and politician for the Labour Party. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Buskerud in 1945, and was re-elected on one occasion. Born in Ål, he was and ...

*1978–1980 : Tor Oftedal *1981–1990 : Petter Furberg *1990–2005 : Bjarne Mørk Eidem *2005–2013 :

Jørgen Kosmo Jørgen Hårek Kosmo (5 December 1947 – 24 July 2017) was a Norway, Norwegian politician. From 2005 to 2013 he was Auditor General of Norway, after representing the Norwegian Labour Party, Labour Party in the Storting (parliament) for 20 years, ...

*2014–2021: Per-Kristian Foss *2022–Present:

Karl Eirik Schjøtt-Pedersen Karl Eirik Schjøtt-Pedersen (born 3 October 1959 in Vardø) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He is currently the Auditor General of Norway since 2022. He was a parliamentary representative for Finnmark from 1985 to 2009. He serv ...

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Government agencies of Norway Government agencies established in 1816 Storting Supreme audit institutions 1816 establishments in Norway