Three MPs—Harry Valderhaug, Ida Lindtveit Røse, and Jorunn Gleditsch Lossius—are asking the government to study and propose a comprehensive business policy framework for nonprofit reuse organisations. The proposers argue that the sector lacks basic operational conditions, including its own industry code, qualification standards, and a unified oversight model, and that the VAT system is misaligned with donation-based reuse operations.
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The Storting calls on the government to study and propose a comprehensive business policy framework for nonprofit reuse organisations, including clear sector definition and qualification standards suited to their character, necessary adjustments to the VAT system to ensure tax rules do not impede documented inclusion and environmental work, and predictable guidelines for classifying donated goods at border crossings.
The Storting calls on the government, in cooperation with the Labour and Welfare Administration and relevant actors such as the correctional system and health trusts providing addiction treatment, to establish a national standard for cooperation between nonprofit reuse organisations and employment and welfare services, with the aim of securing long-term and predictable agreements.