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You will find an English translation of the original User Agreement at the end of this article.</p> <h2>Norwegian legislation in English</h2> <p>The Lovdata Foundation provides a collection of Norwegian legislation in English.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://lovdata.no/register/loverEngelsk">Translated Acts</a></li> <li><a href="https://lovdata.no/register/forskrifterEngelsk">Translated Regulations</a></li> </ul> <p>The texts are not translated by the Lovdata Foundation. The translations are provided by ministries and other public authorities.</p> <p>The translations are not official; they are provided for information purposes only. In the event of any inconsistency, the Norwegian version shall prevail</p> <p>The Law Library at the University of Oslo maintains a collection of links to translated Norwegian legislation (also translations languages other than English). The collection includes links to the legislation available at Lovdata. </p> <ul type="disc"><li><a href="https://app.uio.no/ub/ujur/oversatte-lover/cgi-bin/sok.cgi?type=LOV">Chronological list of statutes</a></li> <li><a href="https://app.uio.no/ub/ujur/oversatte-lover/cgi-bin/sok.cgi?type=FORSKRIFT">Chronological list of regulations</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.ub.uio.no/ujur/ulov/english.html">Search</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/1881030/norwegian_law_in_foreign_languages?token=c3e6410e4b22b40fe86faa05aa5ae6e0">A bibliography of Norwegian Law in foreign languages</a> (Law Library, University of Bergen) </li> </ul> <h2>The Lovdata Foundation</h2> <h2>Background</h2> <h3>The establishing of Lovdata</h3> <p>Lovdata was established as a private foundation on 1 July 1981 by the Ministry of Justice and the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo. Some of the background material leading up to the creation of Lovdata is collected in <a href="http://lovdata.no/info/index-papers">The Lawdata Papers</a>, published in 1981.</p> <h3>Purpose</h3> <p>The purpose of Lovdata is to establish and operate legal information systems on a non-profit basis.</p> <h3>Activities</h3> <p>Lovdata's main activities are:</p> <ul type="disc"> <li>The operation of a website with legal information</li> <li>The operation of an online legal information service</li> <li>Publication of <span lang="no">Norsk Lovtidend </span>(The Official Legal Gazette)</li> <li>The production of: <ul> <li>the text for <span lang="no">Norges Lover </span>(Norwegian statutes in force)</li> <li><span lang="no">overenskomster med fremmede stater </span>(Norwegian Treaty Register)</li> <li>many other publications containing acts, regulations and other legislation.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Development of software in connection with maintaining and running large databases.</li> <li>Consultancy services in informatics.</li> </ul> <p>Lovdata is also the publisher of the following Scandinavian and Norwegian periodicals:</p> <ul type="disc"> <li>Lov&Data, a publication for legal informatics edited by Jarle Roar Sæbø, Country Counsel Norway and Denmark at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (published quarterly).</li> <li>EuroRett, a publication highlighting legal development within the European Union (appr. 20 issues a year).</li> </ul> <h3>Web systems</h3> <p>In May 1995, Lovdata launched a website with the purpose of making legal information available on a broader basis than earlier. In addition to Lovdata’s traditional subscription-based databases, the following information was made available to the general public free of charge:</p> <h3>The Official Legal Gazette</h3> <p>New acts and regulations are published in the Gazette . At the present time the digital issues go back to 1980 (launched May 1995).</p> <h3>Acts in force</h3> <p>All acts in force are continually consolidated and include a table of contents showing the chapters and sections. Acts can be found by searching or browsing the chronological or alphabetical indexes (launched May 1997).</p> <h3>Regulations</h3> <p>All national and local regulations in force are continually consolidated. An index to chapters and sections is generated for each regulation.</p> <p>The national regulations (i.e. regulations applying to Norway as a whole) are grouped according to responsible ministry. Within each ministry, regulations may be found in the same way as for statutes: text search or the chronological and alphabetical indexes.<br />(Launched March 1998)</p> <p>Local regulations are primarily grouped according to the municipality or county in which they apply. In addition, there are categories corresponding to national parks, wildlife areas and so on. For each municipality or geographical category a chronological and alphabetical index is available (launched March 1998).</p> <h3>Supreme Court decisions</h3> <p>New decisions are made available soon after they are handed down. Decisions from 2008 are available at our publicly accessible website. Hyperlinks to statutes (including chapter/section) are automatically generated (launched May 1997).</p><p>Summaries of the decisions are available dating back to 2008. </p> <h3>Appellate Court decisions</h3> <p>A selection of new decisions from the six Norwegian appellate courts are available from 2008 onwards. Hyperlinks to statutes (including chapter/section) are generated automatically (launched August 1999).</p><p><font size="4"><b>District Court Decisions</b></font></p><p>Selected decisions from district courts are made available. These decisions remain available for one year.</p> <h3>European Court of Human Rights</h3> <p>From January 2006 Lovdata has cooperated with The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights at the University of Oslo. The Centre writes Norwegian summaries of the Court’s category 1 cases. These summaries are published on Lovdata’s open site along with a link to the case itself (launched 2006).</p> <h3>The Norwegian Treaty Register</h3> <p>The treaty register gives information about bilateral and multilateral conventions which Norway is a part of. Lovdata administers the register on behalf of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is publicly accessible through www.lovdata.no.</p> <h2>Lovdata Pro subscription system</h2> <h3>Lovdata Pro</h3> <p>The Lovdata Pro system is Lovdata’s application for professional users and covers the Norwegian primary legal resources.</p> <h4>Legislation</h4> <ul> <li>All statutes since 1687 now in force and all historical versions since 1998.</li> <li>All regulations in force, national and local. Historical versions of all regulations from 1998.</li> <li>The circulars of the tax and social security authorities.</li> <li>The Norwegian Legal Gazette from 1986.</li> <li><span lang="fr">Travaux prépatoires</span> – preparatory works. <ul> <li>NOU – Official Norwegian reports, from about 1990</li> <li>Ot.prp./Prop – bill drafts from about 1985, Proposals before the Parliament from 1991</li> </ul> </li><li>Treaties signed by Norway since 1992</li> </ul> <h4>Decisions</h4> <ul> <li>Supreme court decisions from 1836</li> <li>All appellate court decisions from 1993. Selected decisions from 1870.</li> <li>Selected decisions on a regular basis from Oslo District Court from 2002 and from other district courts (lower courts) from 2004. In addition selected lower court decisions from about 1880. </li> <li>Nordic court decisions concerning maritime law from 1952.</li> <li>Court decisions on all levels concerning employment contracts.</li> <li>Decisions by the Labour court from 1916.</li> <li>Social security court decisions from 1989.</li> <li>Opinions by the Parliamentary Ombudsman (from 1963).</li> <li>Opinions by special boards dealing with complaints from private customers of banks and insurance companies.</li> <li>Opinions of the Market Council.</li> <li>The opinions of about 40 different governmental and other appeal boards.<br /><br /></li> </ul> <h4>Literature</h4> <ul> <li>More than 8,000 legal articles published in the main legal journals in Norway.</li> <li>Bibliographic references to legal literature.</li> <li>The publishers of several major legal books, Universitetsforlaget and Arbeidsretten, both have bilateral agreements with Lovdata that enable links between our systems for mutual subscribers. </li> <li>Judicial comments based on a sort of Wiki principle.</li> </ul> <p>Citation jumps between the different databases are implemented.</p> <ul type="disc"> <li>The Norwegian version of the EEA agreement</li> <li>The Norwegian translations of legislation relevant to the EEA</li> <li>The English version of the Celex database implemented on our system</li> <li>The Lovdata database</li> </ul> <p>Citation jumps between Eurlex and Lovdata are implemented as well as citation jumps between the Eurlex databases.</p> <h4>Updates and pricing</h4><div><font size="2"><b>Content updates</b></font></div> <p>All databases are continuously updated. The number of databases are steadily increasing.</p> <h5>Pricing</h5> <p>For a list of subscription prices, see <a href="https://pro.lovdata.no/">https://pro.lovdata.no</a> (in Norwegian).</p> <h4>Access from abroad</h4> <p>Both the user interface and the documents in the databases are in Norwegian, a language you therefore have to understand fairly well if you want to access our online databases. Outside of the language barrier, there is nothing preventing users from abroad from subscribing to Lovdata Pro. At present we have foreign subscribers in all Nordic countries as well as in continental Europe.</p> <h2>English translation of the original Norwegian User Agreement.</h2> <h3>Terms of use of documents from Lovdata's open site lovdata.no</h3> <h4>§ 1.</h4> <p>Utilization for the purpose og publishing, distribution, database usage or training activities of documents obtained from Lovdata, including but not limited to, statutes , regulations, circulars, decisions etc., requires a separate agreement. Lovdata will decide, in case of doubt, what is meant by publishing, distribution, database usage or training activities stated above.</p> <p>Any resale of Lovdata services requires a separate agreement.</p> <h4>§ 2.</h4> <p>Linking to Lovdata’s site is allowed and encouraged. The pages must, however, be presented to the user in their original form. It is not permitted to process, modify or edit the pages before they are passed on to the user, unless otherwise agreed.</p> <h4>§ 3.</h4> <p>Lovdata is not responsible for any errors in the documents. Should the user become aware of any errors, a notice should be sent to Lovdata at the user`s earliest convenience. 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