This is most encouraging - I have worried that pressure would be brought to bear on Norway to acquiesce in the grand plan to make us invisible!
I am glad to see them standing firm.
Next we should all apply for political asylum in Norway on the grounds of infringements of our human rights in our countries of origin.
We will be medical refugees.
Unfortunately the Norwegian Directorate of Health has given in to pressure a bit since these excellent recommendations were made in July. In December, the Directorate updated their website information on ME/CFS:
http://helsedirektoratet.no/helse-og-omsorgstjenester/cfs-me/Sider/default.aspx
and here one can see that while the Directorate now recommends ICC (that's a big first!), it has unfortunately backed away a bit from the previous "CBT and GET can not be recommended". Under "Treatment" the text now states that CBT and GET has documented effects in some groups (understood: within the ME/CFS umbrella). This change is most unfortunate, and hopefully the excellent Norwegian patient organizations can lobby for a change back to the more restrictive (and truthful) previous statement.