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Water Act (2019)
Date of original text: 30 January 2019 (20 June 2023)
Public Water Supply and Sewerage Act 2023.
Date of text: 15 February 2023
Regulation confirming criteria for discharge of waste water into water bodies and the ground (No. 464 of 1994).
Date of text: 15 December 1994
Regulation of the Minister of Environment no. 23 of 2023 concerning Requirements for risk assessment and management of drinking water catchment area and supply area.
Date of original text: 14 April 2023 (03 July 2023)
Regulation No. 25 of 2020 of Minister of the Environment on species and groups of species for which an unfavorable change is considered to be damage caused to water quality, specimens of animal or plant species or parts thereof within the meaning of subsection 144 (1) of the Water Act
Date of text: 21 May 2020
Regulation No. 19 of 2020 of Minister of the Environment on list of surface water bodies, procedure for designation of surface water bodies and territorial sea status classes, values of quality indicators for ecological status classes of surface water bodies and values of quality indicators for water bodies not included in a surface water body
Date of text: 16 April 2020
Regulation No. 17 of Minister of the Environment on water protection requirements for aquaculture, including limit values for pollutants in aquaculture water and requirements for discharge and monitoring
Date of text: 02 April 2020
Regulation No. 6 of 2020 of Minister of the Environment on specified data composition of the water use report and procedure for submission of the report
Date of original text: 16 January 2020 (15 December 2022)
Regulation No. 67 of 2019 of Minister of the Environment on requirements for the content of the water management plan and program of measures
Date of original text: 11 December 2019 (10 June 2020)
Regulation No. 61 of 2019 of the Minister of Environment on Requirements for Wastewater Treatment and Discharge of Sewage, Precipitation, Mining, Quarrying and Cooling Water, Conformity Assessment Measures and Pollutant Limit Values
Date of original text: 08 November 2019 (17 September 2021)
Regulation No. 55 of 2019 of Minister of the Environment on procedures for the assessment of groundwater resources, requirements for the report on the assessment of groundwater resources and the hydrogeological survey and the composition of the data on which the establishment of groundwater resources is based.
Date of original text: 15 October 2019 (03 July 2023)
Regulation No. 54 of 2019 of Minister of the Environment on specified requirements for water body expansion, dam elimination and lowering the water level and methodology for determining the minimum ecological flow
Date of text: 09 October 2019
Regulation No. 53 of 2019 of Minister of the Environment on sampling areas to be assessed, requirements for the sampler, study program, assessment procedure, form of the assessment certificate and rules of procedure of the assessment committee
Date of original text: 08 October 2019 (03 July 2023)
Regulation No. 49 of 2019 of Minister of the Environment on Sampling Methods.
Date of original text: 03 October 2019 (10 June 2022)
Regulation No. 45 of 2019 of Minister of the Environment on Requirements for the Use and Storage of Fertilizers for the Protection of Groundwater and Surface Water and for the Prevention and Control of Pollution from Agricultural Production
Date of text: 03 October 2019
Regulation No. 63 of 2019 of Minister of Social Affairs on requirements for bathing water and beaches
Date of text: 03 October 2019
Regulation No. 50 of 2019 of Minister of the Environment on Requirements for Increasing the Extent of a Water Intake Sanitary Protection Area and Requirements for the Project of a Water Intake Sanitary Protection Area and the Procedure for Designating a Drinking Water Intake Protection Area
Date of original text: 03 October 2019 (14 April 2023)
Regulation No. 48 of 2019 of Minister of the Environment on list of groundwater bodies and procedures for their identification, status classes and procedures, values of quality indicators for chemical status and conditions for quantitative status, list of pollutants endangering groundwater, threshold values for their content by groundwater bodies and groundwater quality thresholds and background level
Date of original text: 01 October 2019 (10 June 2022)
Regulation No. 61 of 2019 of Minister of Social Affairs of Estonia on Drinking water quality and control requirements and methods of analysis
Date of original text: 24 September 2019 (03 March 2023)
Regulation No. 43 of 2019 of the Minister of the Environment on data composition of the application for registration of activities with aquatic environmental risk.
Date of original text: 24 September 2019 (10 June 2022)
Regulation No. 39 of 2019 of Minister of the Environment of Estonia on Limit values ​​for dangerous substances in groundwater
Date of text: 04 September 2019
Regulation No. 35 of 2019 of Minister of the Environment of Estonia on Content of the River Basin Water Monitoring Program, Principles, Methods and Methodology for the Development of the Water Monitoring Program and Implementation Requirements.
Date of original text: 01 September 2019 (03 July 2023)
Regulation No. 31 of 2019 of Minister of the Environment on Requirements for the planning, construction and use of a sewerage structure and the specified extent of the shape of the sewerage structure
Date of text: 31 July 2019
Regulation No. 28 of 2019 of Minister of the Environment on list of priority substances and priority hazardous substances, environmental quality limit values for priority substances, priority hazardous substances and certain other pollutants and methods of their application, environmental quality limit values for river basin-specific pollutants, activities related to the monitoring list of substances.
Date of original text: 24 July 2019 (21 December 2021)
Regulation No. 25 of 2019 of Minister of the Environment on requirements for the storage and use of watercraft
Date of text: 28 June 2019
Regulation No. 23 of 2019 of Minister of the Environment on requirements for a test laboratory performing physico-chemical and chemical parameters studies of water, analyzes to be performed within the framework of these studies and quality assurance of the activities of the test laboratory, and reference methods of analysis
Date of original text: 28 June 2019 (29 June 2021)
Regulation No. 12 of 2019 of Minister of the Environment on requirements for the content of the flood risk assessment report, the management plan and the updated management plan and the list of data to be indicated on the map of the flood risk area and the flood risk area
Date of text: 20 March 2019
Regulation No. 57 of 2011 of Minister of the Environment on the Requirements for laboratories testing the physico-chemical and chemical parameters of water, for the analyses performed as part of those tests and for quality assurance of laboratory operations, and the analysis reference methods
Date of original text: 25 August 2011 (01 September 2011)
Decree relative to procedures for issuing water permits (No. 2 of 1994).
Date of text: 28 February 1994
Regulation No. 10 of 2021 of Minister of the Interior of Estonia on the requirements, conditions and procedures for the construction, testing, use, maintenance, marking and exchange of information at a water intake
Date of text: 18 February 2021
Regulation No. 45 of 2020 of Minister of the Environment of Estonia on the conditions for granting support for the implementation of construction activities of the measure “Flood risk management”
Date of text: 22 September 2020
Regulation No. 13 of 2018 of Minister of the Environment of Estonia on the conditions and procedure for granting support for research activities of the measure “Flood risk management”
Date of text: 25 May 2018
Regulation No. 169 of 2014 of Government of the Republic of Estonia on fees for the right of special use of water for the abstraction of water from a body of water or aquifer
Date of text: 17 November 2014
Regulation No. 12 of the Minister of the Environment establishing maximum limits for dangerous substances in soil and groundwater.
Date of text: 02 April 2004
Regulation No. 3 of the Minister of the Environment validating the Procedure for Attestation of Field Personnel Taking Samples for Water Study Purposes.
Date of text: 11 January 2002
Decree relative to entry into force of the Agreement with Estonia concerning cooperation in the field of conservation of water resources (No. 19 of 2000).
Date of text: 21 January 2000
Minister of Environment Regulation No. 58 establishing Maximum limits of hazardous substances in soil and ground water.
Date of text: 16 June 1999
Regulation No. 34 of the Minister of Environment approving the Procedure for Informing Holders of Real Estate on National Water Monitoring Activities.
Date of text: 27 April 1998
Regulation No. 83 of the Minister of Environment concerning Establishment of the Procedure for Calculation and Payment of Charges for Special Use of Water.
Date of text: 11 November 1997
Regulation No. 8 of the Minister of Environment concerning groundwater survey, usage and protection.
Date of text: 30 January 1997
Regulation No. 63 of the Minister of Environment establishing the Procedure for issue and revocation of special water use permits.
Date of text: 24 December 1996
Rates for pollution charges for the discharge of pollutants into water bodies and into the soil.
Date of text: 28 February 1994
Regulation tightening the requirements for discharging of waste water into water bodies (No. 201 of 1995).
Date of text: 25 April 1995
Regulation No. 9 of the Minister of Environment amending Regulation No. 83 “Establishment of the Procedure for Calculation and Payment of Charges for Special Use of Water” of 11 November 1997 of the Minister of Environment.
Date of text: 04 February 1999