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Law· SE725avaldatud riigiteatajas

The Act on Amendments to the Occupational Health and Safety Act and other related laws

Estonia · Riigikogu · 18 October 2022

The bill amends the provisions of the Occupational Health and Safety Act and the Health Insurance Act, which would restore the procedure for paying sickness benefits that was valid from 01.01.2023 before 01.01.2021, if not amended. If the bill is adopted, the procedure for paying sickness benefits will be preserved, according to which the employee's deductible is the first day of illness, and the employer pays the benefit from the second to the fifth day, and the health insurance fund pays the benefit from the sixth day.

Law· SE615avaldatud riigiteatajas

Act on amending the Occupational Health and Safety Act and the Employment Contract Act

Estonia · Riigikogu · 9 May 2022

The draft improves the organization and quality of the occupational health service and the cooperation between employers and occupational health doctors in order to ensure a safe working environment and prevent work-related health problems. According to the draft, the employer must in the future organize the provision of occupational health services in such a way that the company's occupational health situation as a whole is analyzed together with it. This means an occupational health doctor in addition to the previous organization of employee health checks by analyzing the company's occupational health situation and making proposals to improve working conditions, as well as advising employers on improving the working environment and giving recommendations to employees to improve their health. The changes promote a systematic approach to occupational health in companies, which helps to improve the working environment, protect the health of employees and prevent employee health problems. This in turn reduces the costs for employers that are involved with employees getting sick and absent from work. The bill also stipulates the obligations of the employer and the employee in ensuring a safe working environment in case of remote work. The bill regulates the processing of employee health data if it is necessary to ensure occupational health and safety. The processing of the employee's health data may be necessary to mitigate health risks caused by chemical and biological hazards, to organize occupational health services, the employee to detect alcohol intoxication, investigate work accidents and occupational diseases. Since none of the mentioned obligations is new, the employer's rights are not essentially extended, but the processing of health data is made clearer for the parties. In addition, the bill proposes changes that will reduce the administrative burden on employers in the investigation of work accidents and occupational diseases. Employers will be given the opportunity to compile and store work accidents and occupational disease investigation reports, which reduces the administrative burden associated with the preparation, transmission and storage of paper documents.

Law· SE605avaldatud riigiteatajas

An Act to amend the Family Benefits Act, the Social Welfare Act and other Acts

Estonia · Riigikogu · 2 May 2022

The amendments to the Family Benefits Act make a technical correction in the provision concerning the upper limit of the mother's parental benefit. With the amendment to the Social Welfare Act, the repayment of the loan taken for the purchase of housing is added to the list of housing costs taken into account within the subsistence allowance, which also includes loan interest and mandatory housing insurance payments. The purpose of the change is to support families who have taken out a loan to purchase a home on a similar basis with those families who pay monthly rent for the use of housing, thereby reducing the extent of economic difficulties (including the addition of additional debtors) and avoiding the loss of housing. In addition, the regulation of the data register of social services and benefits is supplemented by adding to it the information about the person applying for and receiving protection for international protection adopted in accordance with the Act on the Granting of International Protection to Foreigners for the assessment of his need for assistance and the data to be processed to offer him assistance and the data on covering the costs specified in the Act on the Granting of International Protection to a Foreigner for a person or family who has received international protection. The provisions on the payment of support for a pensioner living alone will also be improved, by paying the support for a pensioner living alone if the pensioner entitled to the support takes a recipient of temporary protection to live with him. According to the current regulation, a pensioner does not have one in this case the right to support. The law will also be supplemented with a special provision for the reimbursement of costs of processing and disbursement of living allowance to local government units for the year 2022. The amendment to the Act on the Organization of Health Care Services has been drawn up primarily to implement measures related to the mass immigration of refugees and also to ensure the treatment of persons wounded in war.

Bill· SE560tagasi voetud

Family Benefits Act Amendment Act

Estonia · Riigikogu · 22 March 2022

In order to improve the livelihood of families with children, the bill provides for increasing the child allowance for the first and every subsequent child in the family to 100 euros per month. Based on the current law, the amount of child support for the first and second child of the family is 60 euros. The amount of the child allowance is 100 euros for the third and each subsequent child. According to the amendment made in the bill, the allowance for the first and second child will also be increased to 100 euros per month.

Law· SE522avaldatud riigiteatajas

The Law on Mandatory Liability Insurance of Health Care Service Providers

Estonia · Riigikogu · 17 January 2022

The bill establishes patient insurance and vaccine damage compensation systems. The bill establishes patient insurance, which is mandatory liability insurance for healthcare service providers (TTO). The draft stipulates the principles and organization of mandatory liability insurance of TTO, as well as the basis and extent of the damage to be compensated to the patient. The purpose of creating the new system is better patient protection and easier compensation than before application. In the event of a loss, where it would have been possible to avoid health damage by treating the patient, the insurance company will begin to evaluate the circumstances of the claim. The insurance amount per injured patient is up to 100,000 euros, 3 million euros for the entire one-year insurance period. Among other things, the draft establishes the minimum requirements for the organization of patient safety, including the creation of an information analysis system to prevent incidents of danger and damage. Plan the patient insurance system will be implemented from July 1, 2024 Secondly, the draft amends the Medicines Act and provides for compulsory vaccine damage insurance, or vaccine insurance. The purpose of vaccine insurance is to compensate people for severe health damage caused by vaccination in a simplified manner. This is the case if, probably as a result of the vaccination, the patient has suffered serious health damage that lasts at least four months. Compensation is also provided in the event that the person probably dies as a result of the vaccination. The regulation creates an opportunity for a person who has suffered serious health damage after vaccination to claim compensation at the rate established by law, depending on the severity of the damage. Vaccine insurance imposes an insurance premium obligation on the distributor of vaccines, the size of which depends on the number of doses marketed for use in Estonia and the government of the established payment rate. Insurance payments cover the costs of payment and processing of benefits by both the Health Insurance Fund and the Medicines Agency. The vaccine insurance rules are scheduled to take effect on May 1, 2022. In 2022, claims caused by COVID vaccines will be covered retroactively. From 2023, the system will also be extended to other vaccines, including immunization plan vaccines, flu, tick-borne encephalitis and so-called travel vaccines. Causal the connection between health damage and vaccination must start to be evaluated by the Medicines Agency, which has also done it now, but not with such a purpose and scope. It is difficult to predict the number of applications, but it is likely that the possibility of receiving compensation will increase the number of applications. The explanatory letter states that vaccination against Covid-19 started in Estonia on December 27, 2020. Since that date, 6405 possible side effects of vaccines have been reported to the Medicines Agency (as of 31.12.21) case. As of early December, there have been 237 cases of serious adverse events possibly related to the vaccination and four deaths. The cost of compensation for vaccine damage is estimated at 1 million euros in 2022, with system management and IT costs totaling 1.4 million euros. From 2023, the costs of the system will be covered by insurance premiums. Thirdly, the Health Insurance Act creates the possibility to add more to the list of diseases if there is a price agreement or limit price, also diseases for which the price of the drugs used to treat them is formed in the joint procurement of drugs by the European Commission. When reimbursing a person for medicines, the health insurance fund will have the opportunity to take into account the price of the medicine that was determined in the joint procurement of medicines by the European Commission. These are technical changes, but they are important to ensure legal clarity in the reimbursement of medicines. The change concerns the soon-to-be-marketed COVID-19 prescription drugs intended for use in home treatment. According to the draft, these changes will enter into force on May 1, 2022.

Resolution· OE482tagasi lykatud

Riigikogu decision "Making a proposal to the Government of the Republic to create a fund for compensation for damages caused by the side effects of vaccination against the corona virus"

Estonia · Riigikogu · 10 November 2021

The bill proposes to discuss the issue urgently in the Riigikogu and to give the government the task of creating a fund to compensate for the side effects of vaccination against the coronavirus. The proposal is based on the fact that the government's restrictions have tied many opportunities for leisure and sports to the Estonian population with vaccination. Vaccination against the coronavirus is extensive and the time of use of the vaccines has been short, which is why it is the creation of a separate fund is necessary, through which potential damages from the side effects of vaccination will be compensated.

Law· SE466avaldatud riigiteatajas

State Pension Insurance Act Amendment Act

Estonia · Riigikogu · 12 October 2021

The bill provides for an increase of the basic part of the pension and the national pension by 20 euros from January 1, 2023. The amount of the basic part of the pension is currently 235 euros. It is the same for all pensioners, the seniority part, the insurance part and the joint part are added to the base part, which is different for each person depending on his length of service and the amount of income. After the increase of the basic part on January 1, 2023, the amount of the pension with 44 years of service would be approx. 611 euros. From 1 April 2021 the amount of the pension with the same length of service is 552.38 euros. The national pension rate is currently 255.18 euros. The national pension is intended for people who do not have enough retirement years (15 years) at the old-age pension age.

Law· SE456avaldatud riigiteatajas

The Act on the Amendment of the Act on the Amendment of the Occupational Health and Safety Act and Other Acts and the Act on the Amendment of the Employment Contract Act and the Act on the Amendment of Other Acts Related thereto

Estonia · Riigikogu · 29 September 2021

The bill provides for continuing until the end of 2022 the payment of sickness benefit from the second day of illness by the employer to the fifth day of illness and by the Estonian Health Insurance Fund from the sixth day of illness. Thus, the currently valid system will continue until the end of 2022, according to which the first sick day is the employee's deductible, the employers' responsibility for paying sickness benefits is the second to fifth days, and the Estonian Health Insurance Fund's responsibility for paying sickness benefits occurs from the sixth day of illness. The explanatory letter states that earlier compensation for sick days allows people to stay at home even when the first symptoms of illness appear, without them losing significantly in their income. The implementation of the proposed changes will result in an additional cost of 19 million euros in 2022, of which 12.4 million euros will be covered from the state budget and the remaining costs will be covered by the Estonian Health Insurance Fund's own funds. The law is scheduled to be in effect for a period of time from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022.

Law· SE413avaldatud riigiteatajas

The Act on Amendments to the Medicines Act and Amendments to Other Acts Related to It

Estonia · Riigikogu · 14 June 2021

The bill brings the Medicines Act into line with the legislation of the European Union, which stipulates rules for clinical trials of drugs used in healthcare, clinical trials of veterinary drugs, and hospital exemption medicine. The bill provides for the possibility to prepare and use new medicines in the hospital in exceptional circumstances. Requirements are established to ensure the quality, safety and monitoring of treatment. Such novel drugs can be prepared and to be used only in Estonia on the basis of an individual order of a specialist doctor and under his professional responsibility for the treatment of a specific patient in a hospital. These are medicines designated as novel medicines in the EU, which are divided into gene therapy, somatic cell therapy and tissue engineering medicines, and which offer patients new treatments for certain types of diseases and malfunctions. Based on the data obtained from the use of the drug, hospital exemption will be possible later to start clinical trials with the drug and then reach the application for a marketing authorization. The hospital exemption regulation allows for planning specific development directions and cooperation opportunities between Estonian universities, biotechnology companies and hospitals. The draft will simplify the process of applying for authorization for clinical trials, especially if the applicant wants to conduct the trial in many EU member states. In this case, the applicant communicates with one throughout the process with the drug administration of the member state, who coordinates the entire process and information exchange between the applicant and other member states in the EU, and who also prepares the scientific evaluation report of the research application. In the future, applying for a clinical trial license will be done on the basis of a single application in all desired member states using a single license application file through the clinical trial portal and paperless. The sponsor will also pay when applying for a clinical trial in the future one-time fee in one Member State. Currently, the sponsor in Estonia pays three different fees: a fee to the Medicines Board, the ethics committee and a state fee. The clinical trial request is evaluated jointly by the member states and a joint final decision is drawn up. The final results of the clinical trial are in a common database and public, and therefore more information becomes public. The summary of the survey assessment, survey and inspection results will be made public. Requirements are also established to ensure the quality and safety of drugs administered to study participants during a clinical trial. Special attention is paid to the high-level protection of patient rights and safety. The law was scheduled to enter into force six months after the European Commission publishes a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union that the EU Clinical Trials Portal and the EU Database have reached full functionality, which is expected to happen in July 2021. With regard to clinical trials of veterinary drugs, the amendments to the law are scheduled to enter into force on January 28, 2022, and the provisions concerning the regulation of the hospital exemption will enter into force in a general manner.

Bill· UA383avaldatud riigiteatajas

The Act on Amendments to the Collective Agreement Act and Other Acts

Estonia · Riigikogu · 3 May 2021

The bill brings the regulation on the extension of the condition of the collective agreement into line with the freedom of entrepreneurship protected by the constitution, while ensuring the ability of social partnership and collective involvement. The extension regulation concerns collective agreements concluded between employers and trade union confederations or central confederations. The aim is that the wage, working and rest time conditions can be extended to the entire sector only if there is a total of agreed employers who offer work to at least 40 percent of the employees of the respective field of activity and a union of trade unions or a trade union bringing together members of the same field of activity, whose members make up 15 percent of the employees of the field of activity or which has at least 500 members. Before concluding an agreement, it is a duty to publicly inform and involve all employees and employers, in respect of whom it is desired to extend the conditions. The main problem with the current order is the lack of preconditions and application criteria for the extension, as a result of which it is possible for a small group to agree on the extension of obligations to the entire sector. This entails a disproportionate restriction on entrepreneurial freedom. The bill also amends the Trade Unions Act and the Employee Trustee Act, specifies the employer's obligation to provide time off from working hours to perform tasks related to the trustee's activities, even when trustees is more than one. In addition, the Employment Contracts Act is amended, the compensation paid in the event of nullity of the termination of the employment relationship is increased in a situation where the employment relationship is terminated without a legal basis with a pregnant woman, with the right to maternity or maternity leave, or with an employee who is an employee representative. The Public Service Act will also be amended, the compensation paid in the event of nullity of the termination of the employment relationship will be increased in a situation where the employment relationship is terminated without with an official who is pregnant without legal grounds, has the right to maternity or maternity leave, is raising a child under the age of seven, or is a representative of officials. Technical changes are still being made to both the Collective Agreement Act and the Act on the Working Conditions of Employees Posted to Estonia, which do not involve any changes in the current practice. With the second reading of the bill, temporary amendments were added to the Labor Market Services and Support Act and the Unemployment Insurance Act, which the purpose is to assist registered unemployed by paying an additional one-time unemployment benefit or unemployment insurance benefit for 60 days, if the following conditions are met in the month of the end of the unemployment benefit payment period or unemployment insurance benefit period: 1) the registered unemployment rate in the previous calendar month was higher than 8.5%; 2) the unemployment insurance benefit period ends between September 1, 2021 and February 28, 2022.

Bill· SE358i lugemine lopetatud

Act on Amendments to the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act and the Tax Administration Act

Estonia · Riigikogu · 18 March 2021

The bill to amend the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act (NETS) and the Tax Administration Act (MKS) is related to the agreement on the formation of the government, in which, among other things, it is stated that the coronavirus pandemic requires us to continue decisive action in the near future to prevent the spread of the virus. The bill makes changes that help support the Board of Health in solving a healthcare emergency, in particular to ensure that the tasks can be carried out necessary data exchanges between national registers. The bill supplements the data composition of the register of infectious diseases. An amendment will be made to the MKS, which will allow the processing of data related to a person's workplace both at the Board of Health (register of business permits, register of infectious diseases) and the Ministry of Social Affairs (health information system).

Law· SE347avaldatud riigiteatajas

Act on Amendments to the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act

Estonia · Riigikogu · 11 March 2021

The main changes that will help support the Board of Health in solving a health emergency, including monitoring, are related to the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act (NETS). The bill clarifies the competences of the government and the Board of Health and adds a clear legal basis to the law, which makes it possible to oblige people to follow infection safety precautions in the event of the spread of an infectious disease. In addition, the bill specifies that apart from schools, closure of children's institutions and institutions providing social services may also be temporarily restricted by the health board and the government. The law already provides for the possibility to demand the organization of disinfection, disinsection, pest control or cleaning, as well as the organization of human health research and the diagnosis of an infectious disease or its organization, in order to prevent the epidemic spread of infectious diseases. The Board of Health and the government can also oblige hospital and institution providing social services to establish visiting restrictions. Even in the event of a particularly dangerous infectious disease, the Board of Health and the government can temporarily close or limit their activities in accordance with the bill, if necessary. In addition to banning meetings and events, the draft allows establishing requirements for their organization. According to the law, it is already possible to establish other restrictions on freedom of movement. It is added by the bill the law also includes the possibility to involve the police and other law enforcement agencies in the performance of the tasks of the health board. The text of the first reading of the draft also regulates the compensation of sick leaves and extends the temporary regulation (established by draft 257 SE) (employer from 2nd to 5th day and health insurance fund from the 6th day of illness). There are no longer any corresponding changes in the text of the second reading, as they were transferred to draft No. 355 SE and were therefore left out of draft 347 SE out.

Resolution· OE346tagasi lykatud

Riigikogu decision "Making a proposal to the Government of the Republic to compensate sick days from the first day"

Estonia · Riigikogu · 10 March 2021

The bill proposes to the government to pay sickness benefits to those infected with COVID-19 and those in close contact, from the first day, 100 percent of their previous salary until the day of recovery of working capacity or end of quarantine. Those persons who are not entitled to sickness benefit or if it is lower than 500 euros, to pay a one-time allowance in the amount of 500 euros.

Law· SE318avaldatud riigiteatajas

Law on the ratification of the protocol on amending the social security agreement between the Republic of Estonia and the Republic of Moldova

Estonia · Riigikogu · 25 January 2021

Taking into account the social security agreement between the two countries, the protocol will modernize the work capacity reform carried out in Estonia in particular, because the work disability pension will no longer be determined. The protocol also takes into account the requirements arising from the General Regulation on the Protection of Personal Data of the European Union, and at the proposal of the other party to the contract, changes are made due to the Moldovan pension system, for example, the disability pensions there have been replaced with disability pensions. The purpose of the social security agreement is to ensure pension insurance for individuals when moving from one country to another or if people living in the countries of the contracting parties have worked and acquired pension rights in each other's territories. According to the social insurance contract, each party to the contract determines and pays the pension only for their insurance periods and regardless of the territory of which country the person lives.

Law· SE295avaldatud riigiteatajas

Sotsiaalhoolekande seaduse ja teiste seaduste muutmise seadus

Estonia · Riigikogu · 7 December 2020

Eelnõuga tagatakse asendus- ja järelhooldusteenuse paindlikum korraldus, laiendatakse inimeste ringi, kellel on õigus igakuistele peretoetustele ja suurendatakse kohalike omavalitsuse üksuste võimalusi järelhooldusteenust vajavate noorte toetamiseks. Eelnõuga võimaldatakse asendushooldusteenust pakkuvas perekodus sõlmida perevanemaga lisaks kehtivas seaduses ettenähtud käsunduslepingule ka tööleping. Nähakse ette erisused töölepingu sõlmimisel vaid töö- ja puhkeajas, mis tagab perevanematele võrreldavad sotsiaalsed garantiid teiste töölepingu seaduse alusel töötavate isikutega. Kehtiva regulatsiooni järgi saab perevanemaga sõlmida lepingu, mis on oma olemuselt eritingimustega võlaõiguslik käsundusleping ja kehtestatud tingimusi ei muudeta. Eelnõuga luuakse võimalus saada peretoetusi, näiteks lapsetoetust, eestkostetava lapse toetust, üksikvanema lapse toetust, lasterikka pere toetust, samuti ka puudega õppuri õppetoetust ja puudega vanema toetust kui kuni 19-aastane laps on kantud Sotsiaalministeeriumi hallatava riigiasutuse statsionaarse õppega täienduskoolituse kursuse nimekirja. Muudatus puudutab Astangu Kutserehabilitatsiooni Keskuses õppivaid vanemaid kui 16-aastasi lapsi, kes ei oma õpilase staatust ja seetõttu jäävad eelnimetatud toetustest ilma. Kehtiva regulatsiooni järgi on peretoetuste maksmine õppimisega seonduvalt seotud õppetööga põhikoolis, gümnaasiumis või kutseõppe tasemeõppes. Eelnõuga tehakse ka muid muudatusi, näiteks kehtestatakse ühtsed riigilõivumäärad tegevusloa alusel osutatavatele sotsiaalteenustele (sotsiaalse rehabilitatsiooni teenus, turvakoduteenus ja väljaspool kodu osutatava üldhooldusteenus), järelhooldusteenuse puhul on kohaliku omavalitsuse üksustel võimalus toetusfondi vahendite arvelt kasutada vahendeid kõikidele asendushoolduselt ja eestkostelt lahkunud isikutele kuni nende 24. eluaasta lõpuni, mis kehtiva regulatsiooni järgi on vanuseliselt erinev.

Law· SE226avaldatud riigiteatajas

Loomakaitseseaduse ja pankrotiseaduse muutmise seadus

Estonia · Riigikogu · 14 September 2020

Eelnõu muutmise eesmärk on kaitsta loomade elu ja tervist juhul, kui loomapidaja kohustused tuleb tema tegevuse tõttu talt üle võtta. Tegemist on harva esinevate juhtumitega, näiteks kui loomakasvatajat ohustab pankrot ja tal kaovad võimalused loomade eest hoolitsemiseks. Senise korra järgi peab loomapidamise kohustuse üle võtma kohalik omavalitsus. Seaduse muudatusega antakse see ülesanne alates 2021. aastast Veterinaar- ja Toiduametile (VTA), kelle eelarves nähakse selleks ette ka vajalikud vahendid. Sellistes olukordades riigile tekkinud kulutused nõutakse sisse loomapidajalt, kellelt looma nõuetekohase pidamise kohustus üle võeti. Seda seadusemuudatust rakendatakse kõikide loomade suhtes: nii põllumajandusloomade kui ka lemmikloomade, tsirkuse-, katse- ja loomaaedade loomade ja teiste loomade suhtes. Seadusemuudatus ei käsitle hulkuvaid loomi. Samuti muudetakse pankrotiseadust, nähes ka pankrotihaldurile ette kohustuse tagada juhul, kui võlgniku vara hulka kuulub loom, looma nõuetekohane pidamine. Lisaks sätestatakse Veterinaar- ja Toiduameti ning pankrotihalduri koostöökohustus.

Law· SE445avaldatud riigiteatajas

Loomakaitseseaduse muutmise seadus

Estonia · Riigikogu · 2 May 2017

Eelnõu eesmärk on kaitsta loomade heaolu ja tervist, ennetada avalikul üritusel loomadega seotud õnnetuste ohtu ning vältida inimeste, eriti laste, tsirkuseetenduse käigus nähtud loomade mitteliigiomasest käitumisest tulenevaid võimalikke väärarusaamu loomade vabas looduses käitumise kohta. Eelnõu kohaselt on loomanäitusel, -võistlusel, -laadal, -oksjonil või loomade kokkutoomisega seotud muul avalikul üritusel lubatud kasutada üksnes tehistingimustes sündinud looma, kelle liigiomased käitumisharjumused või eluviis seda ilma looma tervist kahjustamata võimaldavad. Nende loomaliikide ja alamliikide loetelu, keda on lubatud sellisel avalikul üritusel kasutada, kehtestab valdkonna eest vastutav minister.

Question· Interpellation237asked

About state exams

Estonia · Riigikogu · 16 June 2016