Who was sanctioned, and for what?

Konkurransetilsynet (Norwegian Competition Authority) fined Norway's three largest grocery chains a total of NOK 4,926,981,000: the first chain NOK 2,313,418,000, the second NOK 1,321,024,000, and the third chain and its parent company jointly and severally NOK 1,292,539,000. From January 2011 until at least April 2018, the chains had granted each other's price collectors ('prisjegere') extensive access to their stores, which increased price transparency between the competitors and weakened price competition; the authority also ordered the collaboration to end. The Konkurranseklagenemnda (Competition Appeals Tribunal) upheld the decision on 21 August 2025; according to the courts' official hearing list, Gulating lagmannsrett (Gulating Court of Appeal) will hear an action by the second chain challenging the validity of that ruling from 12 October 2026. The decision is not final.

Authority / court

Konkurransetilsynet

Area of law

Competition law · Cartels and collusion

Legal basis

§ 10 konkurranseloven, Art. 53 EWR-Abkommen; §§ 12 und 29 konkurranseloven; § 6 Abs. 1 EØS-konkurranseloven

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

under appeal

Sector

Retail and e-commerce

Culpability

intentional

Published

21 Aug 2024

Original amount 4,926,981,000 NOK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 21 Aug 2024.

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Konkurransetilsynet (Norwegian Competition Authority) made commitments offered by KLP binding and thereby closed its investigation into a possible abuse of a dominant position in public occupational pensions for municipalities. The authority was concerned that, from 2019, when a competitor entered the market, KLP had systematically discouraged municipalities from putting their occupational pension schemes out to tender; KLP now undertakes to refrain from such influence and to remedy the effects of its earlier practice. No infringement was conclusively established and no fine was imposed.

Authority / court

Konkurransetilsynet

Area of law

Competition law · Abuse of market power

Legal basis

§ 12 Abs. 3 i. V. m. § 11 konkurranseloven; Art. 54 EWR-Abkommen

Action

Order

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Financial services and insurance

Published

2 Sep 2026

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Datatilsynet (Norwegian Data Protection Authority) fined the online dietary supplement retailer Lab Pharma AS NOK 205,000 for breaching its duty to cooperate with the supervisory authority (Art. 31 GDPR): the company had threatened case handlers with police reports and lawsuits in order to end the investigation of a complaint, and submitted requested documents late. The authority also ordered the company to delete the name and images of a former advertising partner (an influencer) from all its websites and to stop using her data for marketing until it can demonstrate a legal basis, as the underlying contract had already expired in March 2017.

Authority / court

Datatilsynet

Area of law

Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency

Legal basis

Art. 31, Art. 58 Abs. 2 lit. f, g und i, Art. 83 DSGVO

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Retail and e-commerce

Culpability

intentional

Liability of senior managers

Datatilsynet attributed the intentional conduct of the company's management to the company.

Published

17 Aug 2026

Original amount 205,000 NOK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 12 Aug 2026.

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Finanstilsynet (Norwegian Financial Supervisory Authority) fined the accounting firm Panzer Norge AS, based in Alta, NOK 100,000 under the Anti-Money Laundering Act. The inspection found shortcomings in the firm-wide risk assessment and in customer due diligence, as well as further breaches in risk and quality management and in engagement agreements; the company, which had five employees, essentially did not dispute the breaches.

Authority / court

Finanstilsynet

Area of law

Money laundering and terrorist financing · Customer due diligence

Legal basis

§§ 7, 8, 9, 12 Abs. 4, 13 Abs. 1, 3 und 4, 14, 24 und 49 hvitvaskingsloven

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Other

Employees

Under 50

Culpability

negligent

Published

17 Sep 2026

Original amount 100,000 NOK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 11 Aug 2026.

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Økokrim (Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime) issued an industrial company producing silicon carbide with a penalty notice of NOK 18,000,000 for breaches of the Pollution Control Act (forurensningsloven) and for giving incorrect information to Miljødirektoratet (Norwegian Environment Agency). In Økokrim's view, the air emission measurements in 2021 were not representative because, among other things, production was lower during the measurement campaigns; this created a risk that considerably more of the carcinogenic benzo[a]pyrene was emitted than permitted. The company has accepted the penalty notice.

Authority / court

Økokrim

Area of law

Environment and sustainability · Emissions and permits

Legal basis

Forurensningsloven (Umweltschutzgesetz); falsche Angaben gegenüber Miljødirektoratet

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Manufacturing and mechanical engineering

Culpability

intentional

Liability of senior managers

According to Økokrim, managers took the decisions on the non-representative measurements knowing that they would not reflect actual emissions.

Published

18 Jun 2026

Original amount 18,000,000 NOK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 18 Jun 2026.

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Datatilsynet (Norwegian Data Protection Authority) fined Elkjøp Nordic AS and Elkjøp Norge AS NOK 20,000,000. Following an on-site inspection in June 2022, the authority found that consent for the customer club was neither informed nor specific nor freely given, that club data had been reused without a legal basis for the 'kundematch' (customer match) tool, that the lawfulness of so-called offline conversions had not been assessed and documented, and that rectification requests had not been handled within the deadlines. The decision was adopted under the cooperation mechanism with the supervisory authorities of Sweden, Iceland, Finland and Denmark; more than six million club members across the Nordic countries were affected.

Authority / court

Datatilsynet

Area of law

Data protection · Marketing and consent

Legal basis

Art. 6 Abs. 1 i. V. m. Art. 4 Nr. 11, Art. 6 Abs. 4, Art. 5 Abs. 2 i. V. m. Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. a, Art. 12 Abs. 3 DSGVO; Art. 58 Abs. 2 lit. i DSGVO

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Retail and e-commerce

Culpability

intentional

Mitigating circumstances

Improvements made after the inspection, Datatilsynet's long case-handling time and the lack of evidence that sensitive data were processed; the amount is well below the starting point in the EDPB guidelines (0.4–0.8% of group turnover).

Published

4 Jun 2026

Original amount 20,000,000 NOK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 1 Jun 2026.

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Datatilsynet (Norwegian Data Protection Authority) fined the time-recording system provider Timegrip AS NOK 250,000 because, after a retail chain went bankrupt, the company refused 80 former employees access to their clock-in data, which they needed to document their wage claims. The authority treated Timegrip as controller, since after the bankruptcy the company alone in fact decided on storage, use and access, and found a breach of the right of access under Art. 15(1) and (3) GDPR. A fine of NOK 750,000 had been notified; the authority took into account, among other things, the confused situation and its own long case-handling time.

Authority / court

Datatilsynet

Area of law

Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency

Legal basis

Art. 15 Abs. 1 und 3, Art. 58 Abs. 2 lit. i, Art. 83 DSGVO

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Telecoms, IT and software

Culpability

intentional

Mitigating circumstances

The confused situation after the customer's bankruptcy (given only limited weight) and Datatilsynet's long case-handling time; NOK 750,000 had been notified.

Published

20 Jan 2026

Original amount 250,000 NOK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 16 Jan 2026.

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Between 25 and 31 March 2025 the listed operator of online marketplaces held one-to-one calls with 19 analysts ahead of its quiet period ("pre-close calls") and, in a recorded call, said that consensus for the first quarter and the full year 2025 was too high, adding expectations for individual business areas; the analyst then cut their EBITDA estimate and the share price fell by 10% on 26 March. The Finanstilsynet (Norwegian Financial Supervisory Authority) treated this as unlawful disclosure of inside information and imposed 10,000,000 NOK; as an aggravating factor it took into account that Vend had not initially handed over its prepared list of talking points. Vend announced that it would accept the fine and has decided to stop holding analyst calls before quiet periods.

Authority / court

Finanstilsynet (Norwegen)

Area of law

Capital markets and financial supervision · Market abuse and insider dealing

Legal basis

Art. 14 lit. c i. V. m. Art. 10 MAR; verdipapirhandelloven § 3-1 und § 21-1

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Media and online platforms

Culpability

negligent

Published

20 Aug 2025

Original amount 10,000,000 NOK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 12 Aug 2025.

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The Nasjonal kommunikasjonsmyndighet (Nkom, Norwegian Communications Authority) imposed an administrative penalty (overtredelsesgebyr) of 50,000,000 NOK on Telenor Norge because, on four occasions in autumn 2024 (29 August, 16 September, 17/18 October, 13 November), emergency calls over its network failed entirely or intermittently or were misrouted. The inspection found 22 breaches of ekomloven (Electronic Communications Act), sikkerhetsloven (National Security Act) and several regulations, including inadequate risk assessments, planned work not carried out securely, insufficient redundancy, inadequate auditing of a subcontractor and late notification of the authority. In its final decision Nkom maintained the amount announced in February 2025; the deadline for an administrative appeal ran until 8 September 2025.

Authority / court

Nasjonal kommunikasjonsmyndighet (Nkom)

Area of law

Information security and cyber · Critical infrastructure

Legal basis

ekomloven (lov 4. juli 2003 nr. 83), sikkerhetsloven (lov 1. juni 2018 nr. 24), ekomforskriften, nummerforskriften, klassifiseringsforskriften, virksomhetssikkerhetsforskriften

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Telecoms, IT and software

Employees

1,000 to 9,999

Published

3 Jul 2025

Original amount 50,000,000 NOK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 3 Jul 2025.

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Havindustritilsynet (Havtil, Norwegian Ocean Industry Authority) ordered Equinor to ensure and document that work in area L201 of the Hammerfest LNG plant is fully prudent before it resumes, including specialist analyses of exposure conditions at the work site. The order followed three incidents between June 2024 and June 2025 in the Snøhvit Future project in which workers developed symptoms – after the first, 17 people went to an emergency clinic; the authority considered Equinor's own criteria for resuming work to be insufficient.

Authority / court

Havindustritilsynet (Havtil)

Area of law

Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents

Legal basis

§ 69 i. V. m. § 10 rammeforskriften; §§ 11, 16 und 18 styringsforskriften

Action

Order

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Energy and utilities

Employees

10,000 or more

Published

20 Jun 2025

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Finanstilsynet (Norwegian Financial Supervisory Authority) fined Sparebank 1 Østlandet NOK 30,000,000 under the Anti-Money Laundering Act after an inspection in September 2022 revealed fundamental shortcomings in risk assessment, procedures, customer risk classification, customer due diligence and ongoing monitoring, as well as a breach of the tipping-off prohibition; the authority classed the breaches as serious and long-standing. It also found that staff training had been inadequate and ordered the bank to complete due diligence measures for one customer. The bank appealed on 8 May 2025. The decision is not final.

Authority / court

Finanstilsynet

Area of law

Money laundering and terrorist financing · Internal controls

Legal basis

§§ 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 24, 25, 28 und 49 hvitvaskingsloven; § 47 hvitvaskingsloven (Anordnung)

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

under appeal

Sector

Financial services and insurance

Culpability

negligent

Published

26 Mar 2025

Original amount 30,000,000 NOK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 17 Mar 2025.

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Following an inspection, Datatilsynet (Norwegian Data Protection Authority) fined Telenor ASA NOK 4,000,000 because the group parent had not put in place appropriate organisational measures and policies for the position of its data protection officer (Art. 24(1) and (2) GDPR). The authority also issued a reprimand because for about one year there was no reporting line from the data protection officer to the highest management level, and ordered the company to carry out a documented assessment of whether it must designate a data protection officer and to revise its record of processing activities. According to Datatilsynet, the decision has been appealed and a ruling by the Personvernnemnda (Privacy Appeals Board) is expected in autumn 2026. The decision is not final.

Authority / court

Datatilsynet

Area of law

Data protection

Legal basis

Art. 24 Abs. 1 und 2, Art. 30, Art. 37 Abs. 7, Art. 38 Abs. 2 und 3, Art. 58 Abs. 2 lit. b, d und i DSGVO; § 26 personopplysningsloven

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

under appeal

Sector

Telecoms, IT and software

Employees

10,000 or more

Culpability

negligent

Mitigating circumstances

No specific harm to data subjects was identified; the long case-handling time was taken into account when setting the amount.

Published

14 Mar 2025

Original amount 4,000,000 NOK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 10 Mar 2025.

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Gulating lagmannsrett (Gulating Court of Appeal) sentenced Rogaland Sparebank (formerly Sandnes Sparebank) to a corporate fine of NOK 1,200,000 because in April and May 2020 the bank failed to freeze an account opened in the name of a person on the UN Al-Qaida sanctions list and booked 13 payments totalling NOK 45,828 to it; the bank must also pay NOK 50,000 in legal costs. Hordaland tingrett (district court) had initially acquitted the bank; on 21 May 2025 the appeals committee of the Høyesterett (Supreme Court) refused leave for the bank's appeal.

Authority / court

Gulating lagmannsrett

Area of law

Sanctions and export control · Breaches of sanctions and embargoes

Legal basis

§ 2 lov om bindende FN-vedtak i. V. m. § 3 forskrift om sanksjoner mot ISIL (Da'esh) og Al-Qaida; §§ 27 und 28 straffeloven

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Financial services and insurance

Mitigating circumstances

The bank discovered the matter itself, took measures and reported it to Økokrim and later to Finanstilsynet and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; it gained nothing from the breach.

Liability of senior managers

According to the court of appeal, it is the responsibility of management and the board to staff the bank so that sanctions obligations are complied with.

Original amount 1,200,000 NOK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 27 Feb 2025.

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Finanstilsynet (Norwegian Financial Supervisory Authority) fined Danske Bank A/S NOK 50,000,000 for market manipulation. In the syndication of a ten-year Norwegian government bond of NOK 22 billion in February 2023, whose yield was priced off the Norwegian swap rate, the bank, through its Norwegian branch, pushed the reference rate to an artificial level with interest rate swap trades concentrated around the pricing time, in a situation where it benefited from a higher yield. The fact that the bank had itself approached the supervisory authorities was taken into account as a mitigating factor.

Authority / court

Finanstilsynet

Area of law

Capital markets and financial supervision · Market abuse and insider dealing

Legal basis

Art. 15 i. V. m. Art. 12 Abs. 1 lit. a MAR; § 3-1, §§ 21-1, 21-9 und 21-14 verdipapirhandelloven; § 46 forvaltningsloven

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Financial services and insurance

Employees

10,000 or more

Mitigating circumstances

The bank had itself approached the supervisory authorities.

Published

22 Jan 2025

Original amount 50,000,000 NOK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 15 Jan 2025.

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Konkurransetilsynet (Norwegian Competition Authority) prohibited the acquisition of a regional competitor by the service provider because the merger would have significantly impeded competition in emptying and flushing services (including emptying septic tanks and separators and cleaning pipes and tanks) in the former county of Hordaland, where the two companies were each other's closest competitors. The Konkurranseklagenemnda (Competition Appeals Tribunal) rejected the provider's appeal on 31 January 2025 and upheld the prohibition.

Authority / court

Konkurransetilsynet

Area of law

Competition law · Merger control

Legal basis

§ 16 konkurranseloven

Action

Order

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Other

Published

24 Sep 2024

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Økokrim (Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime) issued a Norwegian ship management company with a penalty notice of NOK 8,000,000 for breaching the Pollution Control Act (forurensningsloven), because two shuttle tankers used in the North Sea left for Asia in 2018 and were broken up on the beach at Alang, India, between 2018 and 2020 ('beaching'). According to Økokrim, the company was familiar with the rules and chose scrapping in India partly for economic reasons. Having initially not accepted the penalty notice, the company accepted it before the main hearing scheduled for January 2025 without admitting guilt; an accepted penalty notice has the effect of a judgment.

Authority / court

Økokrim

Area of law

Environment and sustainability · Waste and hazardous substances

Legal basis

Forurensningsloven (Umweltschutzgesetz)

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Transport, logistics and shipping

Published

10 Jun 2024

Original amount 8,000,000 NOK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 10 Jun 2024.

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