Publications

Carbon markets – Challenges and opportunities for Iceland

With United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (UNSCR 1325), adopted in 2000, the Council recognised for the first time the gendered impact of conflict and the cruci...

The Nordic Network for Newly Arrived Students, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Children in Iceland, organised a conference titled Unlocking Potential: Effective Strategies for Supp...

The Icelandic government’s previous Language Technology Programme, completed in 2023, provided an ambitious vision for the preservation of the Icelandic language and made Iceland and Icelandic better ...

National Action Plan (NAP) on Antimicrobial Resistance 2025-2029

Report on Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Build-up in Iceland National policy framework — Directive 2014/94/EU

Assessing Ways of Reducing the Rate of Deviations in the Hungting of Fin Whales Report from a Task Force appointed by the Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries.

The Icelandic government’s previous Language Technology Programme, completed in 2023, provided an ambitious vision for the preservation of the Icelandic language and made Iceland and Icelandic better ...

Hydrogen and E-fuels Roadmap for Iceland

In 2023, Olsberg•SPI (“SPI”) was commissioned by Iceland’s Ministry of Culture and Business Affairs to undertake a project (the “Study”) to assess the economic impact of Iceland’s Film Production Ince...

One of the initiatives under Iceland's presidency in the Nordic council of Ministers in 2023 was thus to establish a working group made up of experts in the fields of languages and language technology...

Impact Evaluation of the Icelandic Research Fund Terms of Reference: to provide a quantitative analysis of the Icelandic Research Fund, its visibility and impact, covering funding patterns, springboar...

Artificial intelligence (AI) presents great opportunities for society, but also serious challenges to our democracy. The Nordic countries, with their advanced level of digitalization, similar societal...

Excerpt from the annual Report of the Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Development Cooperation to the Icelandic Parliament. The report provides an overview of Iceland's foreign relation...

Iceland’s 6th periodic report under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Memorandum on the HF Fund’s issues and the Icelandic State’s guarantee

Report:The Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs on the HF Fund

The State and Challanges of Energy Affairs with reference to the government's climate action targets and emphases

In View of the Climate Crisis - Iceland's Strategy on Adaptaion to Climate Change

  Digital healthcare policy  

S&P Global Ratings published today a full analysis report on Iceland. The report does not constitute a rating action. S&P´s report (11/15/2021)

The first action plan of Iceland's Education Policy 2030 outlines the implementation of educational reforms in 2021-2024. Education Policy 2030 - First Action Plan

Education Policy 2030 outlines the Icelandic government's plans for educational reforms from 2021 to 2030.  Education Policy 2030 - Iceland

English translation of Iceland’s Policy on Matters Concerning the Arctic Region - Parliamentary Resolution 25/151, approved at Althingi 19 May 2021. Includes a foreword by Minister for Foreign Af...

Relations between Iceland and Poland should be further strengthened, and the presence of Iceland in Poland increased, according to a new report of a working group that Gudlaugur Thór Thórdarson, Mini...

Increased co-operation in the field of trade, health and education are among the proposals of a new report on how to strengthen the relations between Iceland and the Faroe Islands. Gudlaugur Thór Thór...

Excerpt from the annual Report of the Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Development Cooperation to the Icelandic Parliament in 2021. The report provides an overview of Iceland's foreign r...

In the spring of 2019, Lilja D. Alfreðsdóttir, Iceland’s Minister of Education, Science and Culture, appointed a committee of representatives from both the Icelandic government and the film industry t...

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Iceland has published an extensive report on Iceland's international trade policy. The report covers a wide range of trade related topics and gives an overview of I...

In a letter dated 9 April 2019, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, appointed a three-member Greenland Committee to submit recommendations on how to strengthen co-operation between Greenland and Iceland...

Issued in accordance with Declaration related to the Decision of EEA Joint committee No 269/2019 of 25th October 2019. Iceland's National Plan

Science and Technology Policy 2020–2022 Vision of the Science and TechnologyPolicy Council (STPC) In 2030, Iceland will be a diverse society characterised by welfare, security and equal opportunities....

On 30 October 2019, the foreign ministers of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden decided to task Mr. Björn Bjarnason of Iceland to prepare an independent report with non-binding proposals on ...

Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Development Cooperation Gudlaugur Thór Thórdarson presented his annual report on foreign affairs to the Icelandic Parliament on 7 May 2020.  Th...

The Committee for the Future, appointed by the Prime Minister, has published a report on Icelandic society in 2035-2040. The publication is the first report by the committee and addresses economic, en...

  Health Policy. A policy for Iceland´s health services until 2030

Iceland's Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - Voluntary National Review (June 2019)

Foreign Affairs: Excerpt from the Report of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland to the Parliament 2019

GOVERNMENT EMPHASES IN ACTIONS AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING (PDF)  

This 2019 report, titled Iceland and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, presents the current global discourse on 4IR and discusses its implications for Icelandic society. Commissioned by the Prime Mi...

Iceland’s third National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security is presented in the attached report. An external evaluation of the implementation of Iceland’s second National Action Plan that was in...

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund completed its Article IV Consultation on the status and outlook for the Icelandic economy on Friday November 9   Reports: Iceland 2018 Arti...

The 2008 Icelandic Bank Collapse: Foreign Factors. A report for the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs.

The task force on the monetary policy framework has formulated 11 proposals concerning the framework for prudential tools, a revised and improved inflation target, more targeted application of the Cen...

The annual report of Gudlaugur Thor Thordarson, Minister of Foreign Affairs, on foreign and international affairs has now been published. This extensive report summarises Iceland’s foreign policy and ...

The Icelandic state's ownership strategy for financial services

Pre-Accession Economic Programme 2012 (PDF 1,7 MB), January 2012

Medium Term Debt Management Strategy 2018-2022

The final report of the Nordic Welfare Watch has been published. This is a report in the „TemaNord“ series, which is devoted to the outcome of working groups or projects organized by the Nordic C...

Icelandic Economic Situation Overview - August 2017

Today, Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson, Minister for Foreign Affairs, presented his annual report on Foreign and International Affairs to Parliament. In addition to providing an overview over foreign policy i...

The Ministry of Welfare gave the Social Science Research Institute of the University of Iceland the task of assessing and mapping the work of the Welfare Watch, which was set up in 2009 following the ...

The report, commissioned by the Prime Minister, considers the extent to which Iceland's history of economic instability has been driven by the ability of banks to ‘create money' in the process of lend...

Icelandic Economic Situation Overview (PDF 288,83 KB)

Policy on Youthwork 2014 -2018

The Icelandic national curriculum guide for compulsory schools - with Subjects Areas

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 Icelandic government today announces an action plan aimed at reducing the country's housing debt. Firstly, the principal of indexed housing mortgages is to be written down and, secondly, tax break...

The Fiscal Budget  Proposal for 2014, Medium Term Outlook 2014-2017, October 1st 2013, presentation (PDF 300 KB)

National Cultural Policy

This Plan of Action on Gender Equality Regarding Wages is for four years, i.e. until the end of 2016. The aim is that by that time, the gender-based wage differentials that exist on the Icelandic labo...

Medium-Term Debt Management Strategy 2013-2016 (PDF 300 KB), March 2013

Pre-Accession Economic Programme 2013 (PDF 800 KB), January 2013

Gender Budgeting in Iceland, Fact Sheet (PDF 100 KB), November 2012

Icelandic Economic Situation, overview (PDF 300 KB), November 2012

In connection with the implementation of the Government‘s covenant on stability of 25 June 2009, the Welfare Watch was commissioned to “examine, in collaboration with the Union of Local Authorities an...

Framework for Financial Stability in Iceland (PDF 4,8 MB), October 2012

The National Economic Forecast for 2013 (PDF 120 KB), September 2012

Parliamentary Resolution on a Plan of Action on Disabled Persons' Affairs until 2014

The Icelandic national curriculum guide for upper secondary school : general section : 2012  

The Icelandic national curriculum guide for compulsory school : general section : 2012 

Medium-Term Debt Management Strategy 2012-2015 (PDF 350 KB), March 2012

In 2006, the Icelandic government adopted an action plan for measures to combat violence against women in intimate relationships, based on the concept that violence against women affects everyone in s...

Information on Gender Equality Issues in Iceland issued by Centre for Gender Equality Iceland. This overview provides useful information about the context, the legal and practical aspects of gender eq...

This interim report describes the situation in the Suðurnes region three years after the economic collapse of the autumn of 2008. It was prepared by a collaborative group monitoring welfare issues in ...

Towards a strategy to prevent dropout in Iceland - Result of the OECD Iceland Workshop Preventing dropout in upper secondary schools in Iceland

The Icelandic national curriculum guide for preschools : 2012

This report is the second update of the Icelandic Government's 2002 strategy for sustainable development, which bears the title Welfare for the Future. Though the original strategy presented a fr...

A final report from a 5 week effort to analyze the performance of the Icelandic health care system and identify opportunities for short term savings and more long term Health Care reform. The Boston C...

Modernisation of Higher Education in Europe: Funding and the Social Dimension 2011

Science and Technology Policy for Iceland 2010-2012 - Building on solid foundations

Iceland aims to become a dynamic society capable of protecting its welfare in a manner that is sustainable and serves all members of the community by the year 2020. The Iceland 2020 policy statement ...

The pamphlet is printed in 7 languages: Icelandic, English, Spanish, Thai, Russian and Arabic and has useful information regarding the Icelandic Justice system and the Icelandic community.  More...

Pre-Accession Economic Programme 2011 (PDF 2,7 MB), January 2011

This report presents the principal conclusions of the vast work that has been conducted throughout the country within the framework of the 2020 - Moving Iceland Forward initiative. More than a thousan...

The Nordic Youth Research among 16 to 19 year old in Åland Islands, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden - October 2010

Policy on Public Universities

Policy-making for LIFELONG LEARNING  - The Development of Education Policy in Iceland in the context of Europe

Economic Development in the Nordic Countries: 2009 Report (PDF 860 KB)

The Welfare Watch. Report to the Althingi. Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Security, Iceland. January 2010

The Weekly Web Release is out of publication. See archive: The Icelandic Web Archive 

Youth College Students 16 to 20 years - Education, culture, leisure, sports activities and future vision among college youth in Iceland 

Women and Men in Iceland 2009

During the Icelandic presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers, the conference “Parental Leave, Care Policies & Gender Equalities in the Nordic Countries” took place in Reykjavik on 22 Octobe...

Report of the Permanent Committe on Procedural Law on amendments to the Insolvency Regime in relation to the assessment programme with the IMF (pdf) Icelandic: Skýrsla réttarfarsnefndar um breytingu á...

Measures to achieve a balance in fiscal finances 2009-2013: Revisions of calculations and coordination with IMF (PDF 308 KB), July 2009

This report contains the first Government Action Plan against trafficking in human beings, as well as an explanatory statement, which the Government of Iceland approved at a cabinet meeting on 17 Marc...

Culture - The Arts, The National Cultural Heritage, Broadcasting, Language Policy, Sports and Youth Activities

Government Policy for Ecological Procurement: The State as an informed and ecologically minded buyer (PDF 1,71 MB), March 2009

Iceland's Third Periodic Report on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, June 2008.

Programme for the Icelandic Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers 2009 

Women and Men in Iceland 2008 

National summary sheets on education systems in Europe and ongoing reforms - Iceland (PDF- 91KB)

Icelandic National Report - Bologna 2008

Rent Benefit Booklet

Greco - Evaluation Report on Iceland Transparency of Party Funding (Theme II) (pdf)

Greco - Evaluation Report on Iceland Incriminiations (ETS 173 and 191, GPC 2) (Theme I) (pdf)

"The Icelandic government has formulated its 2008 to 2012 policy on the information society, following the motto Iceland, the e-nation. This is the third time the Icelandic government has formulated ...

The Threads and Merits of Government Websites – 2007

The government of Iceland has agreed on a policy regarding free and open-source software. The policy states, among other things, that when purchasing new software, free and open-source software and pr...

This report is the first update of the Icelandic Government’s 2002 strategy for sustainable development, which bears the title Welfare for the Future. Though the original strategy presented a framewor...

Women and Men in Iceland 2007

Nordic Declaration on the Recognition of Qualifications Concerning Higher Education - Report to the Nordic Council of Ministers - 2007

Developments in the Wake of New Legislation in 2000 Parental Leave in Iceland – Bringing the Fathers in

This Strategy sets forth a long-term vision for the reduction of net emissions of greenhouse gases by 50-75% until the year 2050, using 1990 emissions figures as a baseline. Emphasis is placed on redu...

The Government Policy on the Integration of Immigrants

Iceland´s National Programme of Action for the protection of the marine environment from land-based activities. Report on the implementation of the global programme of action 2001-2006 in Iceland. The...

Iceland´s Fourth National Communication on Climate Change under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and Iceland´s Report on Demonstrable Progress under the Kyoto Protocol. The pu...

The publication contains statistical indicators related to the goals that were set forth in the Icelandic government´s policy on sustainable development in 2002, entitled ´Welfere for the Future´. Its...

Plan of Action to deal with Domestic and Sexual Violence Plan of Action to deal with Domestic and Sexcual Violence

The Icelandic economy – Winter 2006

Eurojust and the Republicof Iceland(hereinafter referred to as 'the Parties'), Having regard to the Council Decision of 28 February 2002 setting up Eurojust with a view to reinforcing the fight again...

New municipal councils were elected in 105 municipalities on the 25th of May 2002. Structure and Operation of Local Democracy in Iceland 2005 Basic information on how to vote  

The Icelandic Economy - Economic Forecast for 2005-2010 (pdf 780KB) Appendix Tables (Excel 232KB)

Response of the Icelandic Government to the report of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) on its visit to Iceland from 3 to 10 J...

ICE - Health - An Integrated Collaborative Environment for Health Care in Iceland: Situation Analysis, Vision, and Action Plan for Change 2005 - 2007. Report by ParX Business Consulting for The Minist...

During the years 1996-2000 a committee appointed by Iceland's Minister for Health and Social Security worked on the revision of a health plan which had been in effect since 1991. This revision has tak...

Resources to Serve Everyone Policy of the Government of Iceland on the Information Society 2004 - 2007 Resources to Serve Everyone - Policy of the Government of Iceland on the Information Soci...

This revision has taken into account the policy of WHO on Health for All and the health plans of other countries on the one hand, and the public policy and revising of many aspects of health matters i...

Science and Technology Policy Agreed at a meeting of the Science and Technology Policy Council on December 18., 2003 Icelandic Introduction When evaluating the competitive advantage of nations, the r...

INTRODUCTION Iceland is Europe's second largest island and one of its least densely populated countries, having only 2.8 inhabitants per square kilometre. The population of Iceland is about 288,000, ...

The Main Points of Iceland’s Programme for its Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers 2004. Summary now available. Iceland’s Programme for its Presidency (doc - 1.86mB)

Economic outlook : autumn. Oct. 2003

Economic outlook : spring. April 2003

The Macro-Economic Impact of the Construction of Power Projects and Aluminium Smelters (PDF 100 KB), January 2003

Economic outlook : autumn. Oct. 2002

Welfare for the Future Iceland's National Strategy for Sustainable Development 2002 - 2020 Here is a 8,6 mb. pdf version of the report: Welfare for the Future You can also order the report by e...

Iceland's Third Periodic Report to the United Nations under Articles 16 and 17 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights September 2001

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12 Iceland's 16th Periodic Report on the Implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination According to Article 9 of the Convention PART I GENERAL OBSERVAT...

Iceland}s Fifteenth Periodic Report on the Implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination According to Article 9 of the Convention. CERD}s concluding observ...

INTERIM REPORT OF THE ICELANDIC GOVERNMENT TO THE EUROPEAN COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE AND INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT (CPT) (Replies to the CPT's Report on its visit to Iceland ...

Iceland's First Report on the Application of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child of 20th November 1989 Introduction On 26th January 1990, Iceland signed the United Nations Conv...

Iceland's Fourteenth Periodic Report on the Implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination According to Article 9 of the Convention PART I GENERAL O...

Iceland's Third Report on the Implementation of the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights Contents I. General Observations 1 - 11 II. Information relating to Individual P...

Table of Contents Preface by Prime Minister Mr. Davíð Oddsson In the dawn of a new era by Minister of Industry and Commerce Mr. Finnur Ingólfsson 1.Introduction 2. The information so...

Financial Reporting Reform. The Report of the Financial Reporting Commission (PDF 42 MB), February 1995