National legislation

These Rules apply to the definition, description and sales presentation of alcohol, either manufactured in Estonia or imported into Estonia. In the selection and labelling of sales packaging for alcohol, the handler must adhere to good customs and practices of commercial activities. The labelling presented on...

This Regulation validates the official list of artificial flavourings permitted in food and used to impart odour or taste to food and as raw material for production of flavourings according to the method for the production thereof. This Regulation does not apply to a substance which...

This Act provides the grounds for handling food and raw material, the self-checking of an operator, and state supervision in order to ensure food safety and the compliance of food with other requirements. This Act applies to the handling of alcohol and water insofar as the...

This Act provides: (a) the relationships between technical regulations, standards and technical specifications; (b) the principles for avoiding barriers to trade resulting from technical regulations or standards; (c) the bases for the notification of technical regulations and standards; and (d) the bases for the organisation of...

This Procedure regulates the issuing of health safety certificates of packaging materials. Certificates shall be issued for the materials used for sales packaging of foodstuffs, including beverage and mineral water, cosmetics, sanitary goods, and of other goods which come into direct contact with human skin and/or...

This Regulation establishes the following list of documents to be submitted to registration authority along with an application for the registration of a trade mark: (a) a request for the registration of a trade mark; (b) a representation of the trade mark; (c) a document certifying...

The Estonian ecolabel shall mean a label issued by the Estonian Ecolabel Committee to environmentally sound products on the basis of voluntary applications, thus making it possible to distinguish these products from other products used for the same purpose but having a stronger negative impact on...

The State Consumer Protection Board of Estonia is a government office functioning in the regulation area of the Ministry of Economic Affairs which is concerned with the national regulation of consumer protection. The board provides national supervision and applies, if necessary, national forcing methods on the...

This Regulation establishes requirements for determining materials of sales packaging containing alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverages for the purpose of imposing excise duty on the materials listed and grouped in the Annex of the Packaging Excise Duty Act (RT I 1997, 5/6, 31): (a) glass and...

This Act regulates public health. The purpose of this Act is to protect human health, prevent diseases and promote health, which is to be achieved through the performance of duties by the state, local governments, legal persons in public law, legal persons in private law and...