Overview
- The Armed Forces issued electronic messages on January 19 to selected owners of vehicles, machinery, vessels and other assets.
- The notices state that any seizure could occur only during war or with authorization from the government and the monarch.
- Each alert is valid for one year and can be renewed, and roughly two thirds this year are renewals from 2025.
- Norway restarted this notification practice in 2022 after decades of dormancy, growing from just over 4,000 that year to about 14,000 in 2025.
- International reports framed the step in the context of Russia and Arctic security, whereas Norwegian authorities describe it as routine preparedness.