Search Results for: Icelandic

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has tabled a string of revised quotas impacting on British fisherman, to bring European Union (EU) catch limits in line with political deals agreed earlier this year. These include agreements with Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands and a deal struck at the North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have ordered a freeze on catches of round-nose grenadier in the North Sea, including in Norwegian waters, saying catches in 2005-6 should match average annual catches in 1996-2003. It is one of a number of conservation-minded measures recently ordered by the EU Council of Ministers, one being a ban on catching and landing white sharks and basking sharks in any EU waters, the ban applying to non-EU and EU-flagged fleets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to approve a trade deal between the EU and Iceland, which will see wine, fortified wines, and unsweetened mineral waters (carbonated or still) being imported and exported across the north-east Atlantic duty free.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE ICELAND government is facing a legal challenge to its restrictive student loans regulations, which the European Free Trade Area (EFTA) Surveillance Authority considers breaks European Union (EU) freedom of movement rules. These have to be applied in Iceland for EU and EFTA members, because Iceland is in the European Economic Area (EEA), where many EU laws apply.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

FACT BOX

Population of Iceland: 300,000

Number of students enrolled at university: 9,526

Percentage of university students who are Icelanders: 93%

Percentage of Icelandic population attending university: 5.8%

INTERVIEW

A LOT of people are fascinated by Iceland and it’s helped make the country’s university something of a lure for students across Europe and even America.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Free Trade Area (EFTA) has set ceilings on the amount of money that Iceland aluminium smelter Norðurál hf (NOTE TO SUBS – NAME INCLUDES BIZARRE ICELANDIC LETTER – THIS IS NOT A CORRUPTION) can save from 10 tax and fee concessions offered by the Icelandic government.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released details of a fishing agreement that will give 40 European Union (EU) tuna seiners and 17 surface longliners access to the Indian Ocean waters off the Comoros archipelago. Asking EU ministers to approve the deal, Brussels said it would cover an annual catch of 6,000 tonnes of tuna in Comoros waters until December 2010.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has called on the European Commission to frame an action plan on simplifying red tape for the fishing industry, “reducing their bureaucratic workload and the restrictions that bear down on fishermen”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will fund with Euro 8.1 million a research project to identify the genes making people more prone to addictions of any kind. The GENADDICT Integrated Project links eight leading public and private research organisations and is coordinated by Professor Ian Kitchen, of the University of Surrey.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GURANTEE issued to American drug company deCODE Genetics Inc by the Icelandic government regarding a US$200 million bond is being investigated by the European Free Trade Area Surveillance Authority because of concerns that the move may break European state aid rules.…