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Sak 2023/186: behandling av søknad om nedsettelse av ilagt tvangsmulkt (25.02.2025)

From https://assistivelisteningknowledgebase.org/evidence/norway-2025-melhus-penalty-review/ · record checked 13 October 2026

  • Diskrimineringsnemnda
  • Diskrimineringsnemnda (Norwegian Anti-Discrimination Tribunal)

Government (Norwegian Anti-Discrimination Tribunal)

Summary

A follow-up to Norway’s Melhus hearing-loop order records late completion and refuses to reduce the coercive penalty, rejecting the municipality’s explanations for delay.

Key findings

  • The decision identifies Melhus municipality and Midt medical centre as the subjects of the 6 May 2024 order in case 2023/186, requiring working hearing loops by 15 June 2024.
  • Page 2 records that no completion evidence arrived at the deadline and the chair activated the daily penalty from 17 June 2024. The order was fulfilled on 28 October 2024, so the penalty ran through 27 October 2024.
  • The municipality applied on 10 December 2024 for a reduction, citing misdirected email, supplier and municipal holidays, and technical adjustments to the equipment.
  • Pages 3-5 reject those explanations as special grounds for reduction. The tribunal said the municipality had known about the complaint for a year, had not kept the tribunal informed, and had not documented the claimed delay periods. Equipment was ordered on 2 July 2024, seventeen days after the deadline.
  • The operative decision of 25 February 2025 refuses the application to reduce the penalty. The document specifies the daily rate of NOK 3,000 including Saturdays but does not state a total amount or confirm payment.

Limits

A Norwegian-language follow-up decision about reducing a coercive penalty, not a new finding about system quality. It records fulfilment of the installation order but publishes no field-strength measurements, listener results, total penalty or proof of payment. English findings are paraphrases of the original.

Read the original

www.diskrimineringsnemnda.no/media/v21htbyh/sak-2023-186-nemndas-behandling-av-soeknad-om-nedsettelse-av-ilagt-tvangsmulkt.pdf

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Diskrimineringsnemnda. Sak 2023/186: behandling av søknad om nedsettelse av ilagt tvangsmulkt (25.02.2025). Diskrimineringsnemnda (Norwegian Anti-Discrimination Tribunal). 25 February 2025. https://www.diskrimineringsnemnda.no/media/v21htbyh/sak-2023-186-nemndas-behandling-av-soeknad-om-nedsettelse-av-ilagt-tvangsmulkt.pdf (accessed 13 October 2026).

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