Nordic Committee

The task of the Committee is to promote and coordinate the cooperation between the psychiatric associations of the Nordic countries. The cooperation concerns primarily the tasks that have not been or cannot be dealt better by the existing national organisations.

The central tasks of the committee comprise:

• To act as head of the Nordic Journal of Psychiatry and to promote the activities with other scientific journals published within the Nordic area.

• To arrange regularly the Congress of the Nordic Psychiatric Associations

• To nominate the delegates of the member associations to the Northern Zone of the World Psychiatric Association To promote professional cooperation between the member associations

The committee can arrange or support Nordic symposia within the psychiatric field if appropriate.

The committee consists of two delegates from each of the Nordic countries. One of the delegates is the chair of the national organisation and the other delegate is nominated usually for six years. Denmark, Finland and Iceland will arrange the congresses with odd and Norway and Sweden with even serial numbers. There is a system of rotation between the countries as to being the chair, secretary or treasurer of the committee. The executives are appointed for a period between two Nordic congresses, usually for three years.

The meetings are held in March or April in each country by turns. The chair will summon the meeting. Each country has a vote in the meeting. The editor of the Nordic Journal of Psychiatry and the representative in the WPA are also invited to the meetings.

The member associations pay an annual member fee based on the number of members in their association. The committee decides annually the amount of the fee.

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