International investment agreements

Multilateral: a) Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA) of 1992, which entered into force on 1 January 1994. The contracting parties comprise the 27 EU member states and three EFTA states Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. b) Agreement on the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) of 1960. The contracting parties are Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. c) EFTA-Singapore Free Trade Agreement.

Bilateral (BITs): China, Chile, Egypt, Korea, Lebanon, Mexico, Viet Nam

Multilateral: EFTA Free Trade Agreements with Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Peru

Bilateral: Faroe Islands Free Trade Agreement

Multilateral: EFTA Free Trade Agreements with Malaysia, Thailand

Bilateral (BITs): Georgia, Kuwait, North-Macedonia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine

For EFTA Free Trade Agreements see the EFTA website.

Iceland is a party to the following investment related international agreements (selection):

• Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency - MIGA
• International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes - ICSID
• UNCITRAL Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (New York, 1958 - the "New York Convention").
• World Trade Organisation - WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMs) of 1994.
• Energy Charter Treaty of 1994

For databases on International Investment Agreements (IIAs), see the ICSID and UNCTAD websites.

Disclaimer: The publication of laws and international agreements on the Ministry for Foreign Affair's website is for information only and does not replace their publication in the Official Gazette of Iceland, as required by Article 4 of the Official Gazette and Legal Notices Act No. 15/2005. In case of discrepancies between texts published on this website and ones in the Official Gazette, the latter shall prevail.