Editorial

...  of all notifications to the Register of Business Enterprises in 2011, 52.6 % were submitted online via Altinn? It is simpler, quicker and cheaper!.

... at the end of 2011, 447,175 Norwegian hunters were registered in the Norwegian Register of Hunters? Or that 11.7 % were women?

... the Norwegian term for official registration – tinglysing – dates back to the Viking Period, when important announcements were made every time all free citizens were gathered to attend an assembly or thing?

... the Brønnøysund Register Centre is responsible for approval and registration of Norwegian enterprises that wish to be certified in accordance with EMAS– the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme.?

... the Register of Reporting Obligations of Enterprises is endeavouring to get rid of unnecessary forms and simplify reporting for business and industry?

… in a user survey, 85 % of the companies responded by saying that they have reported and submitted public forms through Altinn?

... eight out of ten managers in business and industry say that they spend less time on public forms because of Altinn?

...  a total of 28,970 new enterprises were registered in 2011? That is 3,594 more than in 2010.

...  the Brønnøysund Register Centre had a cooperation agreement with the World Bank concerning register development assistance in several countries, including Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Nepal and Togo? The agreement expired in July 2011.

... the Central Marketing Exclusion Register protects private persons from direct mail advertising and unwanted phone sales?

... .the average waiting time in 2011 was 50.5 seconds for callers to our Information Service, 50.9 seconds for those calling Altinn User Service and 14.3 seconds for those calling the Narvik Business Hotline?

… our various telephone services answered more than 499,000 calls in 2011?

… in 2011, approximately 1,755 guests participated in visits, international activities and internal and external events organised by the Brønnøysund Register Centre ... as well as two marching bands?

…since 2005, the Brønnøysund Register Centre has welcomed official delegations from Lithuania, Mozambique, Denmark, China, Germany, Sweden, South Sudan, Zanzibar, Rwanda, Liberia, Vietnam, Austria, Malawi and Kyrgyzstan?

… the Brønnøysund Register Centre is developing SERES to simplify public coordination? In SERES information and information contexts are being described in a uniform manner so as to facilitate understanding and reuse of data.

… about 7,000 municipal and central government agency forms are in accordance with the ELMER guidelines? ELMER is a standard for the user friendliness of official online forms, for which the Brønnøysund Register Centre is responsible.

... there were 363,837 registrations in the Central Coordination Register for Legal Entities in 2011?

... the Brønnøysund Register Centre’s Department of Distribution has a Business Advisory Services section in Narvik?

… in the European Business Register (EBR), you can search for information about more than 20 million European enterprises in more than 20 countries?

... the National Fee Collection Office  is responsible for registering vouchers and invoices in connection with enforcement proceedings by rural chiefs of police and city judges?

... for notifications submitted on paper, the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities has achieved the goal of processing cases within five days?

... for notifications that are received via the electronic solution in Altinn, the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities processes cases within just one day?

... since start-up in 1998, the Register of Reporting Obligations of Enterprises has registered coordination and simplification measures corresponding to 1,589 full-time equivalents?

... in 2011, the Brønnøysund Register Centre had an average of 576 employees? Eighteen of them work in Narvik.

... the Brønnøysund Register Centre processed approximately 2,718,000 documents in 2011?

... a total of 1,855,074 unique users (private individuals and organisations) used the Altinn portal in 2011?

... ... the Brønnøysund Register Centre stores approximately 3,240,000 annual accounts?

... businesses engaged in direct marketing are obliged to update their lists with information from the Central Marketing Exclusion Register at least once a month?

... 82 % of tax returns were submitted by employees and pensioners via Altinn in 2011?

... in total, officially registered encumbrances from 1 January 1981 to 31 December 2010 amounted to NOK 5,834,447,653,478 (i.e. NOK 5,834 billion)?

... over 1,9 million individuals are registered in the Central Marketing Exclusion Register against unsolicited telephone sales and direct advertizing by mail?

... there are more than 30 service owners in Altinn, including the Norwegian Directorate of Taxes and the Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund (Lånekassen)?

... the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities and the Register of Business Enterprises received approximately 436,000 coordinated register notifications in 2011, approximately 45% of which were submitted electronically?

... of the 442,040 encumbrances registered in the Register of Mortgaged Movable Property in 2011, 151,046 were vendor’s liens on motor vehicles?

.. the Register of Company Accounts. received approximately 278,000 accounts in 2011? Approximately 76 % were submitted electronically via Altinn.

... the 'Start and Run a Business' tab in Altinn provides information about everything you need to know about starting and running a business in Norway?