Act No. 70 on the Meteorological Office of Iceland. Country/Territory Iceland Document type Legislation Date 2008 (2011) Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Air & atmosphere, Environment gen., Water Keyword Institution Access-to-information Data collection/reporting Monitoring Hazards Early warning system Risk assessment/management Air quality/air pollution Research Pollution control Climate change Inland waters Freshwater pollution Geographical area Arctic, Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Atlantic, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe Entry into force notes This Act enters into force on 1 January 2009. Abstract This Act establishes the Meteorological Office of Iceland and regulates its tasks, integration, funding, and delivery of data. Among its tasks are: monitoring natural hazards and issue warnings and forecasts of imminent danger caused by weather and weather-related factors, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, floods and flash floods; to take care of general systematic water measurements in inland waters; to take care of measurements of snow layers and glacier management and mapping of ice layers of waterfalls and lakes; to make observations and measurements of air, precipitation and water pollution; to map the country's weather conditions and monitor climate changes and their effects on the aspects of nature that the organization is supposed to monitor; to carry out a risk assessment due to natural disasters at the request of the public safety authorities or other authorities; etc. Full text Icelandic Website www.althingi.is