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Regulation on the education, rights and obligations of physiotherapists and criteria for granting of licences and specialist licences, No. 1127/2012 

Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland, deplores that the President of Uganda has signed an Anti-Homosexuality Bill which further criminalizes homosexuality and makes it punis...

Regulation on the education, rights and obligations of dentists and criteria for granting of licences and specialist licences, No. 1121/2012 

Regulation on the education, rights and obligations of pharmacists and criteria for granting of licences and specialist licences, No. 1090/2012 

Regulation on the education, rights and obligations of midwives and criteria for granting of licences and specialist licences, No. 1089/2012 

Regulation on the education, rights and obligations of dental technicians and clinical dental technicians for granting of licences, No. 1123/2012 

Regulation on the education, rights and obligations of emergency medical technicians and paramedics and criteria for granting of licences, No. 1110/2012 

The Minister of Health has approved a policy until 2020 on alcohol and drug prevention. Quantifiable targets will be defined on the basis of this policy and a plan of action will be drawn up to work t...

Iceland joins other participating States of the OSCE, including member states of the European Union, in expressing alarm at the situation in Ukraine, condemning the violence and calling for de-escal...

Having been tasked by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in October last year to produce a report on the assessment of the status of accession negotiations between Iceland and the European Union and d...

Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson, Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture of Iceland, has expressed disappointment with the Pelly Amendment certification of Iceland by the US Department of Interior due to Icel...

The Nordic Foreign and Defence Ministers met today in Keflavík, Iceland, where the joint Nordic air defence exercise Iceland Air Meet 2014 is taking place – a strong manifestation of Nordic defenc...

Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson Iceland´s Minister of Fisheries has expressed disappointment that negotiations on mackerel between the Coastal States in London this week have not resulted in an agreement be...

Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson Iceland´s Minister of Fisheries has expressed great dissapointment that negotiations on mackerel between the Coastal States in Bergen this week have not resulted in an agreeme...

The Parliament of Iceland has adopted a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Iceland and China, the first FTA signed between China and a European country. Foreign Minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson put the...

The only large shark utilised for human consumption in Iceland is Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus), which is according to IUCN listing not vulnerable or endangered. Almost all Greenland shark...

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Fulbright Commission have signed an agreement to set up a Fulbright scholar grant in Arctic Studies. Through this agreement the Ministry for Foreign Affairs ...

The Expert Group on the elimination of inflation-indexation of consumer credit has handed in its proposals. The report proposes that, commencing on 1 January 2015, major steps be taken towards elimina...

The licence is granted to CNOOC Iceland ehf. as operator with 60 % share, Eykon Energy ehf with 15 % share and Petoro Iceland AS with 25 % share. CNOOC Iceland ehf. is a daughter company of CNOOC In...

Ladies and Gentlemen,  I am pleased to be here with you this morning and share with you my insights and vision on the Arctic and, in particular, the business opportunities that we see emerging as...