This Regulation makes provision to reduce and prevent pollution of the outer environment, which is defined as being all land, water, and air, outdoors, and outside workplaces. The Regulation shall not cover those activities and enterprises which are already subject to the laws referred to in…

These Regulations have been adopted in implementation of the Nature Conservation Act of 1971. Articles 1 to 7 deal with the setting up of nature conservation committees on each county and town, as well as in the city of Reykjavik. The task of these committees is to further the nature…

The purposes of this Act are set out in article 1. The Act applies to all territory of Iceland, the EEZ and the Continental Shelf.The Act consists of 79 sections divided into 9 Chapters: Objectives, scope and definitions (I); Administration of nature conservation affairs (II); Right of public…

This Act regulates the acquisition of the right to own or use real property in Iceland. It provides for the control of State organs of the purchase of titles in real property by foreigners. No one may acquire the right to own or use real property in Iceland, including fishing and hunting rights…