Hålogalandsallmenningen is the proposed name for the organization which is expected to manage about 50% of the land and inland water resources in the counties of Troms and Nordland in Norway.
The background for the Finnmark Act is the Sámi people's fight for their rights to manage their land and culture.
In 1978 the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate published a plan that called for the construction of a dam and hydroelectric power plant that would create an artificial lake and inundate the Sami village of Máze.
The convention states that rights for the indigenous peoples to land and natural resources are recognized as central for their material and cultural survival.
In 2001 a committee known as Samerettsutvalget [3] was established to evaluate the Sámi rights to lands, waters and resources in Troms and Norland.