Ministry of Housing, Infrastructure and Transport

Areas of responsibility:

Land planning and emergency response plans
Implementation of NUNA-GIS
Authority for buildings, explosives and fire
Environment and nature protection
Administration of international agreements on nature and the environment 
Utilities
• Legislation for energy, water and heating
Housing
• Housing legislation
• Complaints and appeals outside the area of the housing appeals board
Transport
• Shipping legislation
• Aviation legislation
Responsibility for wholly or partly Home-Rule-owned enterprises
• A/S Boligselskabet INI
• Mittarfeqarfiit
• Grønlandshavnens ejendomme A/S
• Royal Arctic Line A/S
• Air Greenland A/S
• Tele Post Greenland A/S
• ASIAQ
• The Greenland Institute of Natural Resources
• Nukissiorfiit
• KNI A/S

Property and Emergency Management Agency (IUA)

Areas of responsibility:

Construction loans for housing purposes
Rented housing area
• Renovation and reinvestment in the Home Rule’s housing stock
• Supervision of the housing area
Purchase and sale of assets owned by the Home Rule
Insurance of assets owned by the Home Rule
Construction and renovation fund
• Construction and renovation of schools, hospitals, health stations, service buildings, nursing institutions, nationwide institutions and larger transport facilities
• Finance Act allocations, sector plans and construction accounts
• Project supervision and building administration
• Experimental buildings
• Roads
• Technical regulations and development of the building sector

Fire and explosives authority
Emergency response planning

Infrastructure Agency   (SPAA)

Areas of responsibility

Transport
• Negotiation of service contracts and preparation of tendering material
• Regular follow-up and monitoring of service contracts
• Cooperation with the Danish Civil Aviation Administration (CAA-DK)
• Route licences, fees and charges regulation etc.
• Macro-economic analyses of larger transport installations, including cooperation with municipalities
• Overall transport planning
• Harbour authorities
• Maintenance of all harbour and port installations
• Cooperation with the Danish Maritime Authority, the Royal Danish Administration of Navigation and Hydrography, and the Ships Inspection Committee
• Information work for the transport area, including safety-at-sea campaigns
• Secretariat for the Nautical Committee
• Processing transport appeals cases
• Service contacts on goods and oil supplies
• Service contracts on navigating and trading in settlements

Telecommunications
• The maritime distress and safety service
• Telecommunications and post
• TV and radio distribution

Energy
• Energy, water and heating supply
• Development of renewable energy