The issuance of journeyman's certificates has been transferred to the office of the district commissioner in the South of Iceland, and the changes will take effect on January 1, 2025. This follows an amendment to law no. 42/1978 on craftsmanship, which aimed to reduce the issuance of licenses in the central administration of the public sector, thereby allowing more room for actual policy work within the ministry.

Request for the District Commissioner to Confirm a Stepparent Custody Agreement

According to the new Act on Patient Insurance No. 47/2024, the patient insurance of self-employed healthcare professionals is transferred from insurance companies to the Icelandic Health. The change applies to damages that occur on and after 1 January 2025.

The market for catch quota in herrring is open from 16:00 13 July to 14:00 18 July 2023.

Veltek, the Nordic health and welfare technology cluster, held a successful meeting on Wednesday 13 November under the heading “Where are the opportunities?”. The meeting was well attended by the cluster’s stakeholders and guests who contributed to a constructive discussion about the future of services and the possible implementation of health and welfare solutions.

The Minister of Justice has temporarily appointed Svavar Pálsson, the district commissioner of North East Iceland, as the district commissioner of East Iceland from November 1, 2024, to October 31, 2025.

District commissioners were tasked with overseeing the digital implementation of the project, which enabled residents of Grindavík to sell their housing to the government under certain conditions. Applicants could subsequently fill out an application on Ísland.is.

The Minister of Health has confirmed the Directorate of Health's new recommendations on minimum data recording in healthcare, published in Stjórnartíðindi, the Government‘s website, at the end of October.

A symposium will be held at the Nordic House in Reykjavik on December 5th to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Icelandic parliament's approval of a special budget for the National Gift project. This project was created to address the decline in vegetation and soil erosion that Iceland has experienced since human settlement.

New data released earlier this week by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) suggest that European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) countries are not on track to meet their goal of reducing antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic use.