Hoyvík Agreement | |
Long Name: | Agreement between the Government of Iceland, of the one part, and the Government of Denmark and the Home Government of the Faroe Islands, of the other part |
Type: | Bilateral trade |
Location Signed: | Hoyvík, Faroe Islands |
Condition Effective: | Approval by Løgting and Althing |
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The Hoyvík Agreement is a free trade agreement between the Faroe Islands and Iceland.
The agreement was signed 31 August 2005 in the town of Hoyvík in the Faroe Islands.[1] The Faroese Løgting ratified the agreement on 2 May 2006 and the Icelandic Alþingi did the same on 3 June.
On 21 August 2006, a statement was made by the annual general meeting of the West Nordic Council that the possibility of extending the agreement to include Greenland (thus creating a West Nordic free trade zone) should be seriously studied. It was noted at Løgting that the agreement could be extended to Norway and Canada in the future.