International Trade committee Based on my experience here and what I have been following in the newspapers and reports in the media, in some instances we have stricter rules, and we're probably more lax on other issues. I don't have the full picture.
March 31st, 2008Committee meeting
H.E. Markús Antonsson
International Trade committee I mentioned the Doha Round just briefly, because the EFTA ministers of foreign affairs and international trade expressed their concern that this process was slow-going. They had a meeting in Geneva in January. You have been reading this in news releases and communiqués after that
March 31st, 2008Committee meeting
H.E. Markús Antonsson
International Trade committee Mr. Chairman, it was the basic question of territorial waters and how we could secure our own 200-mile fishing limits without allowing fishing fleets from other European Union countries to enter the economic zone around Iceland. We are just securing our exclusive rights to exploi
March 31st, 2008Committee meeting
H.E. Markús Antonsson
International Trade committee No, no.
March 31st, 2008Committee meeting
H.E. Markús Antonsson
International Trade committee No, there have been other priorities—
March 31st, 2008Committee meeting
H.E. Markús Antonsson
International Trade committee —because of the lack of conclusion of this agreement.
March 31st, 2008Committee meeting
H.E. Markús Antonsson
International Trade committee Yes, they do.
March 31st, 2008Committee meeting
H.E. Markús Antonsson
International Trade committee I don't have that exactly.
March 31st, 2008Committee meeting
H.E. Markús Antonsson
International Trade committee Yes, I can find out.
March 31st, 2008Committee meeting
H.E. Markús Antonsson
International Trade committee I must admit that I am unable to answer that question about the amounts in the world. We have close cooperation between the individual businesses in Iceland and the Trade Council of Iceland. They arrange for commercial delegations from Iceland to the individual market areas of th
March 31st, 2008Committee meeting
H.E. Markús Antonsson
International Trade committee No, not here at the embassy. I'm sorry if I misunderstood the question. The Trade Council of Iceland is taking care of this, not the individual embassies.
March 31st, 2008Committee meeting
H.E. Markús Antonsson
International Trade committee The dismantling period.
March 31st, 2008Committee meeting
H.E. Markús Antonsson
International Trade committee For the most sensitive products, it was for 15 years, yes. That's correct, yes. It was for 15 years for the most sensitive products, and then there was another category of less sensitive products, which was for 10 years.
March 31st, 2008Committee meeting
H.E. Markús Antonsson
International Trade committee It was proposed by EFTA to get the negotiations going again when we experienced the obstacles caused by the shipbuilding file.
March 31st, 2008Committee meeting
H.E. Markús Antonsson
International Trade committee In the agreement?
March 31st, 2008Committee meeting
H.E. Markús Antonsson