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Amending the Law on the Organization of the Defense Forces and consequently an Act to amend other Acts

avaldatud riigiteatajasEstonia· Riigikogu· ET

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5 March 2018

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With the changes, the structure of the Defense Forces and the levels of its establishment are organized in order to make the activities of the Defense Forces more flexible and enable a faster response to new tasks. The structure of the Defense Forces, the names of the structural units and their tasks will be stipulated in the future, similar to other government agencies, at the level of the statute. After the amendment enters into force, the tasks and rights and obligations of the Defense Forces will still be regulated at the level of law. The current regulation does not allow operational and flexible changes to the structure of the Defense Forces. The law also excludes the government's obligation to establish the standard size of military units, their structure, names of subunits, belonging to a military type and type of weapon, as well as the division of military units into military units in permanent readiness, rapid reaction military units, and military units in basic readiness. With this, the Commander of the Defense Forces is given greater scope for the tasks of the military unit in the organization of execution. Also, the job titles of the commanders of the structural units of the Defense Forces will be omitted from the Defense Service Act and they will be replaced with an indication that it is a position appointed by the government or the minister responsible for the field. In the future, the law will only deal with the appointment of the head of the Defense Forces. According to the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the Defense Forces, no additional positions appointed by the government will be created, but the government will be left with the option to anticipate them. The Minister of Defense appoints the Deputy Commander of the Defense Forces, the Chief of the General Staff of the Defense Forces, the Commander of the Navy, the Commander of the Air Force, the Commander of the Special Operations Command, the Commander of the Intelligence Center and the Commander of the Support Command. The draft statute envisages giving the defense minister a new right to appoint the commander of the cyber command and the commander of the military police. The bill provides for the possibility of involving reservists in international military operations to increase the ability of the defense forces to respond more quickly to immediate threats. The bill also stipulates misdemeanor punishments for using an unmanned vehicle on the territory of the Defense Forces without the permission of the Defense Forces and for photographing or recording without prior permission. Defense facilities where the recording or transmission of an image or image is prohibited are generally marked with a prohibition sign or a reminder of this upon entering the facility. The bill also changes the active military the rules of long-term assignment.

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