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Tõnis Mölder

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Bill· SE949saadetud i lugemisele

Act to amend the Planning Act, the Building Code and the Act on the Implementation of the Building Code and the Planning Act

Estonia · Riigikogu · 15 June 2026

The draft makes the planning and construction procedures faster, clearer and more transparent. The purpose of the changes is to reduce the administrative burden and shorten the time required for processing plans, while maintaining high-quality spatial planning. The bill reshapes the previous planning approval procedure of the Land and Spatial Board and replaces it with a solution based on the principle of coordination. Also specified the tasks to be solved by the detailed plan, their scope and necessity, and clearer deadlines are established for the initiation of the plan as well as for the intermediate stages of the procedure. In order to increase the transparency of the procedures, requests for initiation of detailed planning will be submitted through the planning database. In addition, the principle is established that the authorities participating in the procedure must submit their proposals and comments at the earliest possible stage in order to avoid later delays. The changes are motivated by the bottlenecks of the existing system. Currently, the detailed planning procedure lasts an average of 2.2 years, but in practice the procedure times range from a few months to 18 years. The purpose of the bill is to make the procedures more consistent, predictable and efficient for developers, local governments and state institutions.

Law· SE835avaldatud riigiteatajas

Law on Supplementing the Traffic Act

Estonia · Riigikogu · 26 February 2026

The draft establishes a mandatory sign in front of the area of ​​use of the automatic traffic monitoring system. Currently, there is no uniform and binding obligation arising from the law to inform road users about speed measurement using the automatic traffic monitoring system. This has led to situations where speeding is done covertly, which undermines the sense of justice and reduces confidence in law enforcement. The purpose of the bill is to ensure traffic supervision transparency, proactiveness and legality. The main purpose of speed measurement is not to punish, but to improve road safety and encourage law-abiding behavior.

Law· SE743avaldatud riigiteatajas

The Act on Amending the Building Code and Amending Other Acts Related to It

Estonia · Riigikogu · 20 October 2025

The bill updates construction law and makes construction and planning processes easier, faster and more flexible for residents, companies and local governments. The biggest changes concern the design conditions. In the future, there is no need to change the detailed plan. It is enough to specify the design conditions if you want to add a smaller auxiliary building to the plot, such as a sauna, a shed or a garage. Also enough specifying the design conditions, if you want to change the base area or the number of floors of the building to be built, specify the type of facility, for example, replace electric heating with ground heating, or build a shelter next to the new building. Building shadows also becomes easier. From July 2026, every new building must have a shelter, for which it is sufficient to specify the design conditions, if the general plan allows it. Private houses and in the case of semi-detached houses, it is planned to waive the application for use permits. A simplified notice of use in the building register, which reflects the basic data of the building, is sufficient. The validity of the construction notice is extended to four years. This means that there is no need to notify the local government several times during the construction delay. Also, in the case of larger construction projects, if several buildings are built, it is not necessary to submit a separate application for a use permit for each building. Smaller ones, less than 20 m² in the case of non-residential buildings, there is no need for a building permit or notice at all - it is enough to specify the design conditions. Important changes will also be made in the legalization of the register of old buildings. Registering buildings without a legal basis becomes clearer and fairer, which gives people the opportunity to register their properties and buildings correctly. In the case of buildings built before July 1, 2015, the prerequisite for legalization is the building's safety, before July 22. buildings built after July 1995 are automatically considered legal. In addition, the existing 500-euro state fee, which had to be paid when registering unauthorized buildings, will disappear. When constructing a borehole and borehole, the obligation to coordinate the location in advance disappears, it is enough to submit a construction notice and a project.

Bill· SE742tagasi lykatud

Planning Act Amendment Act

Estonia · Riigikogu · 8 October 2025

The bill envisages giving local governments the right to exclude the construction of wind farms that significantly spoil the visual view. To this end, local governments are given the right not to initiate a special plan or a detailed plan if the implementation of the plan would result in a disproportionately negative visual impact of the planned wind power plant.

Law· SE683avaldatud riigiteatajas

Act to amend the Planning Act and the Construction Code and the Act on the Implementation of the Planning Act

Estonia · Riigikogu · 19 June 2025

The Planning Act is being amended to significantly simplify and speed up planning procedures. The changes allow local governments to respond to developments faster and more flexibly, to end outdated or stalled plans and to reduce formal and time-consuming obligations. For example, in the future, the validity of the detailed plan will automatically expire if no development activities have been started on its basis within ten years. If the validity period is still needed can be extended without a new public procedure. The most important change is the abandonment of the special planning of the local government, which until now was used, for example, in the planning of wind farms. In the future, such buildings with a significant impact can be planned on the basis of detailed planning, which is faster and cheaper. If the average processing time of the KOV special plan has been four years, the same result can be achieved with the detailed plan in an average of 2.2 years. Most plans is done anyway on land owned by the developer, which is why the mandatory preliminary procedure for special planning is mostly formal.

Resolution· OE601tagasi lykatud

Decision of the Riigikogu "Making a proposal to the Government of the Republic to initiate negotiations in the European Union to invalidate the obligation to prepare sustainability reports"

Estonia · Riigikogu · 19 March 2025

The purpose of the bill is to abolish the obligation to prepare sustainability reports in the European Union and thus reduce the bureaucracy that burdens companies. Representative organizations of Estonian entrepreneurs have also criticized the obligation to submit sustainability reports and proposed to postpone the fulfillment of the obligation. For obliged companies, this is a very extensive and expensive work. Arguably, the creation of a sustainability report can lead to one company additional costs on average 100,000 euros. There are approximately 350 companies in Estonia with the obligation to submit a sustainability report.

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