Alcohol and tobacco products
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
Design of revenue stamps
Competent authority: Tax and Customs Board, Tel: (+372) 880 0812, e-mail: [email protected]
Special requirements for the handling of alcohol
Legislation:Alcohol Act
Competent authorities:Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority, Tel.: (+372) 667 2000, E-mail: [email protected]; Agriculture and Food Board, tel.: (+372) 605 1710, e-mail: [email protected]
TOBACCO PRODUCTS
Design of revenue stamps
Legislation: Designs and types of revenue stamps for alcohol and tobacco products, procedures for ordering revenue stamps, procedures for dispatch of revenue stamped alcohol and tobacco products to another excise warehouse keeper and the composition of a delivery note for revenue stamps. (in Estonian)
Competent authority: Tax and Customs Board, Tel: (+372) 880 0812, e-mail: [email protected]
Requirements for tobacco products, incl. requirements for tobacco products and their packaging, products related to tobacco products, and special requirements for the handling of tobacco products and tobacco product related products
Legislation: Tobacco Act
Competent authorities:Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority, Tel.: (+372) 667 2000, E-mail: [email protected]; Agriculture and Food Board, tel.: (+372) 605 1710, e-mail: [email protected]
Construction
BUILDING MATERIALS AND CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTS
Requirements for building materials and construction products
Legislation: Requirements for building materials and construction products, and procedures for certifying conformity (in Estonian)
Minimum requirements for the land, buildings, premises, maintenance and equipment of schools Public health requirements for schools
FIRE SAFETY
The purpose of the requirements is to ensure the fire safety of the building, and possibility of evacuation and rescue in case of fire.
Legislation: Fire Safety Act
VENTILATION SYSTEMS
Minimum requirements for the energy efficiency of buildings, including low-energy buildings and nearly zero-energy buildings
Legislation: Minimum requirements for energy efficiency in buildings (in Estonian)
Competent authority: Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority, Tel.: (+372) 667 2000, E-mail: [email protected]
Energy, minerals, wood
FUEL
Grounds and rules for handling liquid fuel, requirements for the release for consumption of biofuels for transport
Legislation: Liquid Fuel Act
Competent authority: Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority, Tel.: (+372) 667 2000, E-mail: [email protected]
Pharmaceutical and cosmetic products
PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
Legislation for the handling of medicinal products (incl. requirements for distance selling of prescription drugs), issue of medical prescriptions, granting of marketing authorisations
Legislation: Medicinal Products Act
Competent authority: Agency of Medicines, Tel.: (+372) 737 4140, E-mail: [email protected]
Pharmaceutical products
MEDICINAL PRODUCTS
List of medicinal products with export prohibition
Legislation: Import and export of goods that require special authorisation (including medicinal products)
HERBAL DRUGS
General requirements for the handling of herbal drugs
Legislation: Conditions and procedures for handling herbal drugs and list of herbal drugs (in Estonian)
Competent authority: Agency of Medicines, Tel.: (+372) 737 4140, E-mail: [email protected]
Genetically modified organisms (GMO)
GMO
Detailed requirements for notification of GM crop growing and for GM crop handling
Legislation: Detailed requirements for notification of GM crop growing and for GM crop handling
Requirements for growing and handling GMOs
Legislation: Release into Environment of Genetically Modified Organisms Act
Competent authority: Agriculture and Food Board, tel.: (+372) 605 1710, e-mail: [email protected]
Waste
BIODEGRADABLE WASTE
Requirements for producing compost from biodegradable waste
Legislation: Requirements for producing compost from biodegradable waste (in Estonian)
WASTE
Organisation of waste management, requirements for preventing waste generation, and for the health and environmental hazards that arise from waste
Legislation: Waste Act
BIOGAS DIGESTATE
**Requirement for biogas plants that use biodegradable waste for anaerobic fermentation process. Safety and quality indicators for biogas digestate obtained during fermentation. Requirements for biogas digestate as a product **
Legislation: Requirements for biogas digestate generated from biodegradable waste (in Estonian)
MINING WASTE AND TAILINGS OF OIL SHALE
Requirements for producing fuel additives from mining waste and tailings of oil shale, based on which waste ceases to be waste
Legislation: Requirements for producing fuel additives from mining waste and tailings of oil shale (in Estonian)
AGRICULTURAL PLASTIC
Requirements for collecting, returning to the producer and reusing, or disposing of agricultural plastic waste
Legislation: Requirements and procedure for collecting, returning to the producer and reusing, or disposing of agricultural plastic waste, and targets and deadlines for achieving targets (in Estonian)
TYRE CHIPS
Requirements for tyre chips and their usage in the production of shale oil, after which tyre chip waste ceases to be waste
Legislation: Requirements for tyre chips added in the production process of shale oil (in Estonian)
WASTE TYRES / END-OF-LIFE TYRES
Requirements for collecting, returning to the producer, reusing and disposing of waste tyres
Legislation: Requirements and procedure for collecting, returning to the producer and reusing, or disposing of waste tyres (in Estonian)
SEWAGE SLUDGE
Requirements for handling household sewage sludge, safety indicators and quality limit values under which sewage sludge ceases to be waste
Legislation: Requirements for producing a sewage sludge product (in Estonian)
WASTE CONTAINING OIL
Criteria for producing fuel components from waste containing oil, under which this waste ceases to be waste
Legislation: Criteria under which waste containing oil ceases to be waste (in Estonian)
Competent authority: Environmental Board, tel: (+372) 662 5999, e-mail: [email protected]
Goods and miscellaneous products
AMUSEMENTS
Requirements for location, accessibility, stability, spear and wearing parts. Minimum content of the required documentation
Legislation: Requirements for machinery and partly completed machinery, safety components and machinery accompanying information, and procedures for the conformity assessment of machinery and partly completed machinery (in Estonian)
PRODUCTS USED IN ACCOMMODATION ESTABLISHMENTS
Requirements for premises and equipment of accommodation establishments, including health and safety requirements. Additional requirements for fire safety for home accommodation establishments and guest apartments. Requirements for inventory at the disposal of guests in accommodation establishments.
Legislation: Requirements for accommodation establishments (in Estonian)
Competent authority: Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority, Tel.: (+372) 667 2000, E-mail: [email protected]
Chemical products
NARCOTIC DRUGS AND PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES
Legislation on handling narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances. Includes lists of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances
Legislation: Conditions and Procedure for Handling of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances for Medical and Research Purposes, and Conditions and Procedure for Maintaining Records and Reporting in that Area and Schedules of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (in Estonian)
General requirements for handling and reporting narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances and precursors thereof
Legislation: Act on Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances and Precursors thereof
Competent authority: Agency of Medicines,Tel.: (+372) 7374140, E-mail: [email protected]
Environment
FUEL
Environmental requirements for fuels with a higher biofuel content, environmental requirements for hydrotreated vegetable oil and environmental requirements for alkylate petrol
Legislation: Environmental requirements for liquid fuels, sustainability criteria for biofuels, monitoring of liquid fuel compliance with environmental requirements and procedures of their reporting, and methodology for determining emission reductions from biofuels and liquid biofuels (in Estonian)
Competent authority: Environmental Board, tel: (+372) 662 5999, e-mail: [email protected]
Traffic
CIRCULATION FIXTURES
Minimum requirements for temporary traffic management on a public road
Legislation: Requirements for temporary traffic management (in Estonian)
Competent authority: Transport Administration, Tel.: (+372) 620 1200, E-mail: [email protected]
Urban and road transport
ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLES
Technical requirements for all-terrain vehicles and requirements for their equipment
Legislation: Technical requirements for all-terrain vehicles and requirements for their equipment, and conditions and procedures for assessing their conformity to the requirements (in Estonian)
MOTOR VEHICLES
A list of data given to a user of a new motor vehicle, and the notification procedure of the user
Legislation: A list of data given to a user of a new motor vehicle, and the notification procedure of the user (in Estonian)
MOTOR VEHICLES AND THEIR TRAILERS
Technical requirements for motor vehicles and their trailers, maximum authorised dimensions, mass and axle loads, and requirements for equipment
Legislation: Technical requirements for motor vehicles and their trailers, and requirements for equipment (in Estonian)
VEHICLES
Requirements for vehicles used on Estonian roads (including lightweight vehicles)
Legislation: Traffic Act
Competent authority: Transport Administration, Tel.: (+372) 620 1200, E-mail: [email protected]
Veterinary services
PETS
Anti-rabies vaccination requirements of pets
Legislation: Regulation to control rabies (in Estonian)
Competent authority: Agriculture and Food Board, tel.: (+372) 605 1710, e-mail: [email protected]
Well-being of animals and pets
FUR ANIMALS
Requirements for keeping fur animals, and for premises and buildings thereof
Legislation: Requirements for keeping fur animals, and for premises and buildings thereof (in Estonian)
SHEEP /GOATS
Requirements for keeping sheep or goats, and for premises and buildings thereof.
Legislation: Requirements for keeping sheep or goats, and for premises and buildings thereof (in Estonian)
PETS
Requirements for keeping pets, and for premises and buildings thereof. Applies to all natural and legal persons who own or hold a pet.
Legislation: Requirements for keeping pets (in Estonian)
ANIMALS
List of animal species and subspecies that are allowed to be used in animal exhibitions, competitions, fairs, auctions or other public events where animals are gathered (in Estonian)
MINKS AND RACCOON DOGS
Conditions and requirements for keeping minks and raccoon dogs in captivity
Legislation: Specified requirements for keeping minks and raccoon dogs in captivity, and specified requirements for the content of a farm licence (in Estonian)
BOVINES
Requirements for keeping bovines, and for premises and buildings thereof
Legislation: Requirements for keeping bovines, and for premises and buildings thereof (in Estonian)
Competent authority: Agriculture and Food Board, tel.: (+372) 605 1710, e-mail: [email protected]
Mechanics
LIFTS
Requirements for lifts and their safety components
Legislation: Requirements for lifts and their safety components, and for their conformity assessments (in Estonian)
DEVICES
List of devices with compulsory audit and requirements for their audit, including for audit methods and self-control
Legislation: Devices with compulsory audit, and requirements for audit and the audit procedure
Requirements for the competence of people who are in contact with devices with compulsory audit, be it direct users, supervisors of use, persons working on the device or performing the audit
Legislation: Requirements for the competence of a device’s direct users, supervisors of use, persons working on the device or performing the audit, and for the verification and certification scheme thereof (in Estonian)
Competent authority: Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority, Tel.: (+372) 667 2000, E-mail: [email protected]
Metrology
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
Minimal precision requirements for measuring instruments used in a roadworthiness test
Legislation: Conditions and procedure of assessing the conformity of motor vehicles and trailers to technical requirements (in Estonian)
Precision requirements for measuring instruments, precision requirements for metrological control, and verification validity periods with specified requirements for statistical verification
Mandatory Areas of Application of Metrologically Controlled Measuring Instruments with Exceptions, List of Measuring Instruments Subject to Metrological Control, Requirements for Accuracy, Verification Validity Periods of Measuring Instruments, and Specified Requirements for Metrological Control and Statistical Verification (in Estonian)
Requirements for the use of units of measurement in accordance with the International System of Units (SI), for verification of the traceability of measurement results, and for measuring instruments, their usage, verification and their conformity assessment
Legislation: Metrology Act
VERIFICATION MARKS
Requirements for verification marks used in national verification
Legislation: Requirements for Verification Marks, Procedure for Ordering, Use and Maintenance of Verification Marks and Mandatory Data for the Verification Certificate and Certificate of Non-Conformity (in Estonian)
TAXIMETER
Requirements for the adjustment of a taximeter, permitted error limit and value of cross-over speed
Legislation: Conditions and procedure of adjustment of a taximeter, permitted error limits in using a taximeter, and the value of cross-over speed when transitioning from time tariff value to distance tariff value and vice versa (in Estonian)
Competent authority: Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority, Tel.: (+372) 6672000, E-mail: [email protected]
Petroleum products
FUEL OIL
Environmental requirements for light fuel oil, heavy fuel oil and shale oil
Legislation: Environmental requirements for liquid fuels, sustainability criteria for biofuels, monitoring of liquid fuel compliance with environmental requirements and procedures of their reporting, and methodology for determining emission reductions from biofuels and liquid biofuels (in Estonian)
Competent authority: Environmental Board, tel: (+372) 662 5999, e-mail: [email protected]
LIQUID FUEL
Requirements for liquid fuels
Legislation: Requirements for Liquid Fuels (in Estonian)
Competent authority: Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority, Tel.: (+372) 667 2000, E-mail: [email protected]
Safety
FIRE HYDRANT
Requirements for fire hydrants, their installation, marking, technical situation check and maintenance.
Legislation: Requirements for the selection of the type of fire hydrants, their installation, marking and maintenance (in Estonian)
LIQUEFIED GAS
General safety requirements for the marketing, storage and handling of liquefied gas
Legislation: Requirements for gas installations that use fuel gas, their building, and for the installation of gas appliances, and storage of bottled gas and filling of gas containers (in Estonian)
Competent authority: Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority, Tel.: (+372) 667 2000, E-mail: [email protected]
Packaging
PACKAGING
Marking and design of deposit packaging
Legislation: Markings of deposit of packaging (in Estonian)
General requirements for packaging and use of packaging, methods for avoiding and reducing packaging waste and waste from packaging, incl. pricing of plastic carrier bags
Legislation: Packaging Act
Competent authority: Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority, Tel.: (+372) 667 2000, E-mail: [email protected]
Agriculture
PROPAGATING MATERIAL
Requirements for source material of micropropagation and its handling
Legislation: Requirements for micropropagation of source material and laboratories (in Estonian)
SEED POTATOES
Categories and quality requirements for seed potatoes, requirements for seed potato production, including requirements for provider’s self-regulation, sample sizes, sample methods, and requirements for establishing the conformity of seed potatoes, procedure and requirements for certification, requirements for seed potato packaging, closing and marking of sales packages, requirements for the form and content of labels, and requirements for marketing
Legislation: Categories of seed potatoes, requirements for seed potato production and marketing (in Estonian)
Competent authority: Agriculture and Food Board, tel.: (+372) 605 1710, e-mail: [email protected]
Rail transport
CIRCULATION FIXTURES
Annex 4 of the regulation contains technical requirements for railway crossings for vehicles and pedestrians, and for the maintenance and handling of equipment thereof, and requirements for building railway crossings for vehicles and pedestrians, installing signalling equipment and ensuring road safety
Legislation: Approval of Rules for Technical Use of Railways (in Estonian)
RAILWAY
Requirements for railway traffic, railway transport, railway maintenance, railway safety and organising supervision thereof, rolling-stock using the railway, railway buildings and equipment, and railway signalisation.
Legislation: Approval of Rules for Technical Use of Railways (in Estonian)
Competent authority: Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority, Tel.: (+372) 667 2000, E-mail: [email protected]
Under pressure equipment, gas appliances and boilers
GAS INSTALLATION
Requirements for gas installations, their building, and for the installation of gas appliances
Legislation: Requirements for gas installations that use fuel gas, their building, and for the installation of gas appliances, and storage of bottled gas and filling of gas containers (in Estonian)
PRESSURE EQUIPMENT
Requirements for pressure equipment, aerosol cans and bottled gas, and the procedure for attestation of conformity thereof
Legislation: Requirements for pressure equipment, aerosol cans and bottled gas, and the procedure for attestation of conformity thereof (in Estonian)
FIRE EXTINGUISHERS / FIRE HOSE SYSTEMS
Requirements for fire hose systems, and for need and choice, placement and maintenance of portable fire extinguishers
Legislation: Requirements for fire extinguishers and fire hose systems, their choice, installation, marking and maintenance (in Estonian)
Competent authority: Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority, Tel.: (+372) 667 2000, E-mail: [email protected]
Road construction
ROAD CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTS RELATED TO ROAD QUALITY
General requirements for road construction quality and parts of road
Legislation: Quality requirements for road construction (in Estonian)
ROAD BUILDING MATERIALS
Main characteristics of road building materials and road construction products used for maintenance work on public roads that are subject to mandatory declaration, and the procedure of verification of main characteristics
Legislation: Requirements for road building materials and road construction products, and the procedure for attestation of conformity thereof (in Estonian)
Requirements for road building materials used in pavement
Legislation: Standards for road design (in Estonian)
Competent authority: Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority, Tel.: (+372) 667 2000, E-mail: [email protected]
Telecommunications
RADIO EQUIPMENT
Technical requirements for radio equipment with the right to use frequencies
Legislation: Technical requirements for radio equipment with the right to use frequencies (in Estonian)
General and specific conditions for the usage of radio equipment not subject to frequency rights, and the technical requirements thereof
Legislation: Conditions for the use of radio frequencies and technical requirements for radio equipment not subject to frequency rights (in Estonian)
Competent authority: Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority, Tel.: (+372) 667 2000, E-mail: [email protected]
Foodstuffs
MEAT FROM POULTRY AND LAGOMORPHS
Hygiene requirements for handling small quantities of meat from poultry and lagomorphs from animal husbandry facilities that the producer sells directly to the consumer or to a company that sells it directly to the consumer. Requirements for handling premises. Requirements for the slaughtering and processing of meat from poultry and lagomorphs.
Legislation: Hygiene requirements for handling small quantities of meat from poultry and lagomorphs slaughtered on farms (in Estonian)
MEAT PRODUCTS
Requirements for animal keepers participating in the food quality schemes
Legislation: Production of meat from grass-fed cattle (in Estonian)
FOOD NOT PACKAGED IN SALES PACKAGING
Requirements for providing food information for non-packaged food
Legislation: Requirements for providing food information for non-packaged food (in Estonian)
WILD GAME CARCASSES
Hygiene requirements for handling small quantities of wild game carcasses and carcass cuts sold directly to the consumer or to a company that sells them directly to the consumer. Requirements for handling premises and veterinary checks
Legislation: Hygiene requirements for handling small quantities of wild game carcasses and carcass cuts (in Estonian)
Competent authority: Agriculture and Food Board, tel.: (+372) 605 1710, e-mail: [email protected]
Fertilisers
AMMONIUM NITRATE
Requirements for ammonium nitrate with high nitrogen content transiting through Estonia
Legislation: Chemicals Act
Requirements for handling ammonium nitrate
Legislation: Special requirements for handling ammonium nitrate (in Estonian)
FERTILISERS
Requirements for fertilisers not mentioned in Regulation (EC) No 2003/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council
Legislation: Requirements for the composition of fertilisers by type (in Estonian)
Requirements for labelling placed on packaging or information sheets of fertilisers that do not have the designation ‘EC fertiliser’
Legislation: Requirements for labelling packaging and information sheets for fertilisers (in Estonian)
Competent authority: Agriculture and Food Board, tel.: (+372) 605 1710, e-mail: [email protected]
Precious metals
PRECIOUS METAL ARTICLE
Requirements for the handling of articles of precious metal and for the determining and assaying of fineness of precious metal
Legislation: Precious Metal Articles Act
Competent authority: Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority, Tel.: (+372) 667 2000, E-mail: [email protected]