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The Act on the Organization of Research and Development and Innovation

avaldatud riigiteatajasEstonia· Riigikogu· ET

Introduced

16 December 2024

Last action

17 June 2025 · Accepted

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AVALDATUD_RIIGITEATAJAS

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Margit Sutrop, Vabariigi Valitsus

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17 June 2025

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Summary

The draft establishes the complete text of the new Act on the Organization of Research and Development, which provides for the national organization of research and development and innovation (TAI) and the tasks of the parties, as well as the basis for quality assurance, financing and supervision. In addition to research and development, the draft also regulates innovation based on research and technological development. As a result, the ministries and the tasks and names of advisory bodies, for example the former TAN is renamed the Council for Research and Development and Innovation Policy (TAIP). The State Chancellery is given the task of coordinating public sector innovation activities. The tasks of the ministries in planning, organizing and financing research and development activities and innovation activities in their area of ​​government and in the transmission of relevant information are also specified. To the Ministry of Education and Research. Information related to research must be reflected in the Estonian Science Information System. The law stipulates the applied research center as a new party in the national organization of research and development activities. As a new task, the responsibility for ensuring the functioning of the research ethics system is added to the Ministry of Education and Research. To this end, the Estonian Science Agency will be tasked with forming a research ethics committee and a commission for violations of research ethics for processing. In the future, research and development institutions and higher education institutions can send research to the research ethics committee for evaluation or create their own ethics committee. The Research Ethics Committee is independent in its work and decisions. In accordance with the amendment to the Personal Data Protection Act, the data protection and ethical aspects of policy analyzes and studies commissioned by the executive state authority are assessed by the Data Protection Inspectorate, which consults the newly established with the scientific ethics committee. The quality assessment procedure of the TA institution remains broadly the same. The draft outlines the funding methods through which research and development activities and innovation are supported. The current system, where research and development institutions were funded through base funding, will be changed. According to the new system, funding for institutions is divided into two parts: base funding and performance funding. When determining the base funding, the institution's last three are taken into account year's funding, while in the case of performance funding, the institution's results. The funding of research and development institutions operating as commercial companies will come from the budget of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications. The specific conditions of the grants are established by separate implementing acts, but the ministries have the opportunity to use other options provided for in the legislation to finance research and development activities and innovation.

Machine translation from Estonian. The official text remains authoritative.

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  1. 16 December 2024

    AVALDATUD_RIIGITEATAJAS

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  2. 17 June 2025

    Accepted

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