NORWAY Law and Practice Contributed by: Kari Gimmingsrud, Stian Hultin Oddbjørnsen and Andreas Bernt, Haavind
tions. The regulations will cover commercial data centres and some internal data centres. The registration obligation applies to: • data centre operators that offer others access to data centre services for a fee; and • data centre operators that operate data cen - tres with a subscribed electrical power above a given threshold value (0.5 MW), including enterprise data centres, with the exception of the defence sector, the police and the Police Security Service. Registration is done with the Nkom. To register, the data centre operator must complete Nkom's form. The registration shall contain the following information: • the data centre operator's name; • the Norwegian organisation number or the data centre operator's legal status, form and registration number if the data centre opera - tor is registered in a trade register or similar public register in the EEA; • the Norwegian address or the address of the data centre operator's main company in the EEA and any secondary branch; • the data centre operator's web address; • the physical location of the data centres; • the contact details of a representative of the data centre operator who is physically pre - sent and has the authority and knowledge to follow up requests from the authorities; • a description of the services offered; • information about Norwegian state, county and municipal authorities, bodies and busi - nesses that are customers of the data centre operator; • an estimate of the percentage of power con - sumption that will be used for the extraction of cryptocurrency;
• information about the size of the subscribed electrical power; and • the expected start-up date of the business. The purpose of the registration requirement is to provide the authorities with an overview of the data centre industry in the same way as the telecom industry. It is emphasised that the reg - istration requirement does not entail a permit or approval scheme on the part of the authorities: it is only a registration obligation, and the data centre operator can start up the business as soon as the registration has been completed. Approval Requirements for Use of Frequencies in Norway In many cases, the use of frequencies requires permits form the authorities in Norway. Nor - wegian frequency resources are managed by Nkom. Frequencies cannot be used in Norway without permission from Nkom or the Ministry of Digitisation and Public Administration (DFD). General licences for frequencies may be grant - ed for specific purposes, such as purposes that benefit society and the general public and that do not exclusively benefit an individual or a com - mercial enterprise. Satellites The reception of radio signals from satellites does not require a licence from Nkom or other authorities on the Norwegian mainland and on Jan Mayen. This applies regardless of which fre - quency bands are used. For the transmission of radio signals to satellites, some frequency bands are available without the need for a licence. Larger satellite earth stations with high uplink effects, or in other frequency bands, require fre - quency licences.
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