Iceland joins the Hague Conference
Iceland officially became a Member of the Hague Conference on Private International Law on Friday 14 November 2003. It was on this day that the instrument of acceptance, signed by the President of Iceland, of the Statute of the Hague Conference on Private International Law was deposited at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands.
Iceland thus becomes the sixty-third Member of the Hague Conference. Iceland is already a Party to the following Hague Conventions: the Convention of 17 July 1905 relating to civil procedure, the Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction and the Convention of 29 May 1993 on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption.
Iceland thus becomes the sixty-third Member of the Hague Conference. Iceland is already a Party to the following Hague Conventions: the Convention of 17 July 1905 relating to civil procedure, the Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction and the Convention of 29 May 1993 on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption.