Approved Consultant for Dam Safety
If you have a foreign education or professional qualification and wish to practice your profession in Norway, you generally need approval or authorisation. You will find information about documentation requirements, the application process and regulations here. The competent authority will assess whether you meet the requirements to practice the profession and use the professional title in Norway. If you intend to establish in Norway and work permanently in your chosen profession, the rules below apply to you. However, if you wish to work in Norway for shorter periods of time within your chosen profession, the rules for temporary provision of services apply.
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Establishment:
If you wish to establish yourself or work for an extended period in Norway within your profession, you must apply for recognition from the competent recognition authority before you can practice this profession in Norway.
Temporary provision of services:
You can work temporarily in this profession if you are already legally established in an EEA country or Switzerland and can practice the same profession in that country. You do not need to apply for recognition in order to work temporarily in this profession in Norway.
See NVE's website for approved consultant: Approved consultant - NVE.
The website has templates for application form and work experience form.
- Copy of the original transcript or diploma from the education program, including grades and curriculum for the program.
- Completed application form.
- Completed work experience form.
- List with descriptions of relevant subjects for the field of study you are applying for.
Language requirements:
There is no requirement for the applicant to know one language. However, it will be very difficult to acquire compulsory practice without being able to read, write and speak one of the Scandinavian languages.
Criteria/conditions for recognition:
The statutory qualification requirements related to the practice of the profession are stipulated in the Dam Safety Regulations Section 3-5 Qualification requirements for approved consultant for dam safety.
The statutory requirements for being entitled to recognition of professional qualification from abroad are stipulated in the Act on the Recognition of Professional Qualifications (Professional Qualifications Act) and the Regulation on the Recognition of Professional Qualifications (Professional Qualifications Regulation).
Case processing deadlines:
The competent authority must acknowledge receipt of your application within one month of receiving it and inform you of any missing or incomplete documentation.
Following the submission of a complete application, the competent authority should complete processing your application within three months.
Fees:
The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate does not charge a fee for processing applications for recognition.
Right of appeal:
If you are not satisfied with the outcome of the decision, you may appeal in writing, pursuant to Chapter VI of the Public Administration Act. If your application is processed in accordance with the Professional Qualifications Act, the right of appeal also applies if the competent authority has exceeded the case processing deadlines (see Case processing deadlines above).
Competent authority
The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate
P.O. Box 5091 Majorstua
NO-0301 Oslo
E-mail: nve@nve.no
Phone: (+47) 22 95 95 95
Office address: Middelthuns gate 29, 0368 Oslo
