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The Control Committee

The Control Committee in Longyearbyen meets four times a year.

The meeting schedule can be found by following this link.

 

MembersParty
Deputy members
Trond Olsen, leaderAP
Terje JohansenAP
Kristin Furu GrøttingAP
Arnstein SkaareAP
Håkon Brensholm, Deputy LeaderSV
Trond StrugstadV
Terje GjeitnesV
Kai TrædalH
Moa Marie From KeroV


The control committee is the local government's own control body. The control committee is assigned a number of fixed tasks in Chapter 23 of the Local Government Act and the Control Committee Regulations.

The Control Committee shall:

  • Ensure that the local government's accounts are kept in a satisfactory manner
  • Ensure that financial management is carried out in accordance with applicable regulations and decisions
  • Ensure that management audits are carried out
  • Ensure that the administration of the local government's interests in companies is monitored
  • Ensure that the local government's annual accounts are audited in a satisfactory manner
  • Ensure that issues identified by the audit are followed up

In addition to this, the control committee shall also perform the control tasks requested by the local government.

The control committee has the opportunity to investigate all aspects of the local government's administration, but does not have the authority to review political priorities.

The purpose of the control committee's activities is largely to ensure the democratically elected governance of Longyearbyen by ensuring that the local government exercises its authority in accordance with political decisions and not arbitrarily. Similarly, the control committee shall contribute to ensuring equal treatment and uncovering corruption. Corruption means that someone acting on behalf of the local government allows their case handling to be influenced by opportunities to obtain unjustified advantages for themselves or others. Corruption disregards the rules and decisions that the local government is supposed to follow.

It is of the utmost importance that discrimination and corruption are also uncovered in Longyearbyen. To assist in this work, experience shows that the control committee and the local government's audit department need information from people who are aware of or suspect discrimination or corruption.

The control committee accepts inquiries from everyone, and all inquiries are reviewed and considered. The control committee will first assess whether the inquiry provides grounds for opening a case. The control committee decides which inquiries will lead to the opening of a case and how the case will be handled. Please note that the Control Committee is not an appeals body. For example, rejected applications cannot be appealed to the Control Committee. The Control Committee performs system control on behalf of the local government, and thus indirectly on behalf of all residents of Longyearbyen.

Inquiries to the Control Committee should be addressed to the Control Committee's secretariat.

Case preparation and other secretariat tasks are handled by K-Sekretariatet IKS, which can be contacted in the following ways:

K-Sekretariatet IKS
PO Box 6600
9296 Tromsø

Tel.: 95 10 42 51
Email

Audits of the Longyearbyen local council are carried out by: 

KomRev NORD IKS
PO Box 823,
9488 Harstad

Tel.: 77 04 14 00
Email


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Pursuant to Section 41 of the Svalbard Act, Chapter 22 of the Municipal Act on control responsibilities, Chapter 23 on control committees and Chapter 24 on auditing apply correspondingly to the Longyearbyen Local Council.

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