A proposal for the 2022 East Fjords Coastal Zone Plan is available, presented according to Article 12 of the Law on the Planning of the Sea and Coastal Regions No. 88/2018. The plan proposes a policy for the use of an area that covers the fjords and bays from Almenningsfles in the north to the Whites in the south.

Members of the Icelandic Medical Association have agreed to a strike call and if they have not agreed, they have called a doctors’ strike in a few days or at midnight on Monday, November 25th.

Opportunities for increased cooperation between the professional fields and the staff of Lands- og skógar were among the topics discussed at the recently successful staff meeting. One of the topics discussed was how the staff can already use improvisational intelligence to assist with daily work.

The Icelandic National Planning Agency will hold a meeting on proposals for a coastal area plan for the Westfjords and Eastfjords, on Tuesday 9 August at 13:30. The meeting will take place in the building of the Icelandic National Planning Agency at Borgartún 7B and is open to all.

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.

The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) is a specialised United Nations agency