Table I

"Can you estimate how often you had contacts with the following during the last year"?* (per cent)

The political leadership (Minister, State Secretary and/or Political Advisors)	54
The administrative leadership (Director General, Secretary General)	86
Other sections or department in MRE	93
Other ministries	61
Agencies beneath the MRE	67
Agencies beneath other ministries	16
The Norwegian Parliament	7
The European Commission	10
The Council of Ministers	1
EFTA's Surveillance Authority (ESA)	2
Other EEA/EFTA institutions	7
Other IGOs	15
Mean N	177

* Values 1 and 2 combined on the following five-point scale:
very often (1), fairly often (2), both and (3), fairly seldom (4), very seldom (5).

Table II

"What importance do you assign to the following concerns when doing your work?"* (per cent)

Signals from the political leadership (Minister, State Secretary, Political Advisors)	83
Signals from the administrative leadership (Director General, Secretary General)	88
Professional considerations	95
Proper procedures, current law	92
Modernisation and reform	71
The interests of IGOs	29
Mean N	157

* Values 1 and 2 combined on the following five-point scale:
very important (1), fairly important (2), both and (3), fairly unimportant (4), very unimportant (5).

Table III

"How important are the following institutions when central decisions are made within your portfolio?"* (per cent)

Own political leadership (Minister, State Secretary, Political Advisors)	86
Own administrative leadership (Director General, Secretary General)	92
Other ministries	39
Agencies beneath the MRE	35
Agencies beneath other ministries	10
The Norwegian Parliament	63
The European Commission	20
The Council of Ministers	12
EFTA's Surveillance Authority (ESA)	12
Other EEA/EFTA institutions	13
Other IGOs	18
Mean N	154

* Values 1 and 2 combined on the following five-point scale:
very important (1), fairly important (2), both and (3), fairly unimportant (4), very unimportant (5).

Table IV

"Please consider the following assertions"*: (per cent)

"The European Commission has become more important than earlier within my portfolio"	27
"Other EU institutions have become more important than earlier within my portfolio"	22
"EFTA's Surveillance Authority (ESA) has become more important than earlier within my portfolio"	16
"Other international organisations have become more important than earlier within my portfolio"	26
"Bilateral contacts with governments in other countries have become more important than earlier"	31
Mean N	168

* Values 1 and 2 combined on the following five-point scale:
very correct (1), fairly correct (2), both and (3), fairly wrong (4), very wrong (5).

Table V

Factors relating to 1) the amount of working time officials use on EU dossiers, and 2) the extent to which officials are affected by the EU and/or the EEA agreement (beta) a, b

	Working time on EU dossiers	Affected by the EU and/or the EEA agreement
(i) Formal rank position	-.07	-.21
(ii) Leadership tasks	-.09	-.16
(iii) Copying models from other countries	.16	.24*
(iv) Copying models from IGOs	.39**	.34**

R2 =	.27	.31

*) p .05 **) p .01

a) Diagnostics of collinearity between the independent variables in this table unveil no indications of extreme multicollinearity

b) The dependent variables have the following values:
Very important (value 1), fairly important (2), both/and (3), fairly unimportant (4), very unimportant (5).
The independent variables have the following values:
Formal rank position: Executive officer (1), higher executive officer (2), principal officer (3), assistant director general (4), deputy director general (5), director general (6), and positions over director general (7).
Leadership tasks:
Yes (1), No (2).
Copying models from other countries and from international organisations:
Very often (1), fairly often (2), sometimes (3), fairly seldom (4), very seldom (5).