31. What are the provisions on 'ear marking' direct public funding to political parties (how it should be used)?

Article 10 (4)The authorities shall not keep control of how the parties or groups dispose of their grants.

Political Parties Act (2005), last amended in 2013. 

The Norwegian authorities emphasise that an important feature of the abovementioned funding is the absence of any conditions attached to it and the lack of supervision thereof: parties are free to use this funding in any way they see fit and the disposal of these funds is not in any way supervised.

GRECO (2009), Evaluation Report on Norway on Transparency of party funding (Theme II), p.9.