Press Release: Fifth meeting of the Accession Conference with Iceland at Ministerial level – Six new chapters opened, one more chapter provisionally closed, substantial progress achieved

The fifth meeting of the Accession Conference with Iceland at Ministerial level was held today (18.12.2012) in Brussels to open negotiations on Chapter 1 - Free Movement of Goods, Chapter 16 - Taxation, Chapter 17 - Economic and Monetary Policy, Chapter 22 - Regional Policy and Coordination of Structural Instruments, Chapter 27 - Environment, and Chapter 30 - External Relations. Furthermore, the Accession Conference provisionally closed negotiations on Chapter 8 - Competition Policy.