Iceland 29 June 1998, Request for an advisory opinion from the EFTA Court by Hæstiréttur Íslands (Supreme Court of Iceland) by decision of that court of 26 June 1998 in the case of Fagtún ehf. v. Byggingarnefnd Borgarholtsskóla and others (Case E-5/98)

1.ÙIs it incompatible with Article 4 of the EEA Agreement for national procedural rules to empower a Norwegian court to decide, at the request of a defendant, that a company with its place of business (domicile) in an EEA country other than Norway must provide security for costs when it brings an action against a company with its place of business (domicile) in Norway, when such provision of