Havforskningsinstituttet
Governance index 2024
The agency is in the bottom quartile among directorates, inspectorates and agencies (121 agencies). Its development over three years is in the bottom quartile.
- Financial control: 76 of 100
- Audit: 25 of 100
- Employer: not included (no open figures)
- Procurement: 27 of 100
Quartiles within the group, not a ranking. Parts without figures are left out and the weights spread over the rest.
State accounts
| Year | Spending | Operations | Against budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 through 09/2026 | 1,679 MNOK | 1,668 MNOK | – |
| 2025 | 2,148 MNOK | 2,126 MNOK | +0.5% |
| 2024 | 1,976 MNOK | 1,952 MNOK | +2.7% |
| 2023 | 1,891 MNOK | 1,853 MNOK | +0.9% |
| 2022 | 1,901 MNOK | 1,836 MNOK | +3.2% |
| 2021 | 1,811 MNOK | 1,675 MNOK | −1.3% |
The deviation from budget covers the agency's own operating chapters (posts 01–29), where it posts at least 95 % of the amount. The budget is the adopted budget, changes during the year and what was carried over from the year before. Source: DFØ, state accounts.
The annual audit
| Year | The auditor's conclusion |
|---|---|
| 2024 | The Office of the Auditor General found that the accounts may contain material errors and omissions. That applied to 10 of 230 audited accounts. |
| 2023 | The Office of the Auditor General found that the accounts may contain material errors and omissions. That applied to 7 of 235 audited accounts. |
| 2022 | Not among the 5 of 236 accounts in which the Office of the Auditor General found material errors and omissions. |
| 2021 | Not among the 4 of 235 accounts in which the Office of the Auditor General found material errors and omissions. |
Source: the Storting's recommendation on the annual audit (Document 1). «Not among» means the agency is not named there, not that we have read the audit report.
Procurement in Doffin
| Year | Notices | Awards | Single tender |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 28 | 20 | 25% |
| 2025 | 29 | 20 | 35% |
| 2024 | 11 | 7 | 14% |
| 2023 | 18 | 14 | 36% |
The single-tender share is computed from awards where the number of tenders is given. Source: Doffin (DFØ).
The Storting
Questions and cases in the Storting naming the agency in the title.
| Kind | 2025-2026 |
|---|---|
| Written questions | 3 |
| Question time | 0 |
| Interpellations | 0 |
| Cases | 0 |
Latest
- 9 June 2026 · Written questions · to the klima- og miljøministeren · named in the title
Havforskningsinstituttet dokumenterer alvorlig tilbakegang i naturmangfoldet i Skagerrak, der fiskebestander går tilbake og sjøfugl forsvinner. Forskerne er tydelige på at det fortsatt er mulig å snu utviklingen dersom det handles raskt. Hva vil statsråden gjøre for å hindre at Skagerrak havner i samme situasjon som Oslofjorden? - 6 February 2026 · Written questions · to the fiskeri- og havministeren · named in the title
Havforskningsinstituttet lanserte 5.2 “Ressursoversikt 2026” som gir status for fiskebestandene i norske havområder. Hovedbildet er dramatisk. Antall tonn fisk er halvert siden 2013. Jeg er bekymret for at deler av årsaken kan være svikt i norsk fiskeriforvaltning, i form av overbeskatning, fiskekvoter som er satt høyere enn faglige anbefalinger og manglende kunnskap om sammenhengene i økosystemet - 19 December 2025 · Written questions · to the fiskeri- og havministeren · named in the title
Hvordan har utviklingen vært i antall ansatte i Havforskningsinstituttet i perioden 2021-2025 samt hvilke nye oppgaver har Havforskningsinstituttet fått i samme periode, ber om oversikt per år?
Source: the Storting (data.stortinget.no, NLOD). Not counted in the index: much attention in the Storting is not bad, and little is not good. Questions are linked to the ministry by the minister's title, and to other agencies only when the name is in the title. We do not show who asked or answered.
What we do not measure
We do not assess policy, goal attainment, the quality of services or individual cases. We look only at what can be measured in open data and what the agency itself controls: financial control, audit and procurement. Sick leave per agency is not openly available and is therefore left out.
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The agency in the Central Coordinating Register · How we calculate
Sources: Brønnøysund Register Centre (NLOD), the Norwegian Agency for Public and Financial Management (DFØ), state accounts (NLOD), the Storting (NLOD) and Doffin.
Indications based on open data. Not an assessment of the agency's public mission.