Abstract
The scope of this paper is on the one hand, to gather in one place and to shortly present the most important legal norms that are linked to environmental management, following the path EU – Norwegian national, regional and local administration – Oslo Port Authority, offering an integrated overview of the problem, which, to my knowledge, was never done before. Sometimes, the work will focus more on the responsibilities and attributions of the respective institutions attained through the legal norm than to the rule in itself because this way emphasis more the mode of implementing the EU legislation at hierarchical lower levels. On the other hand, the goal is to explain why the Norwegian legal system in this respect took shape as it is now, analysing the issues that turned up in the legislative process. To be clearer, the objective is not to analyse the norms in depth and to decide whether they are good or bad, but to arise awareness that Oslo Port is an European harbour whose environmental management involves many unforeseen aspects from a juridical point of view.