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The Planning Agency Was Abolished.

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The Icelandic Parliament has approved the merger of the Planning Agency and the Housing and Civil Engineering Agency. HMS will take over the tasks of the Planning Agency and will now be called the Housing, Civil Engineering and Planning Agency, but will still retain the acronym HMS.
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The Planning Agency Was Abolished.

The Planning Agency will be closed down and its tasks transferred to the Housing and Civil Engineering Agency (HMS) after the Althingi approved a bill to that effect today. The stated goal of the law is to simplify administration and streamline state operations, but the explanatory memorandum to the bill estimates that around 80 million per year will be saved by the merger. The Planning Agency's staff will be offered jobs at HMS, which will here…

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RÚV broke the news in on Thursday, February 19, 2026.
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