Equipment works in Estonia

Electrical, gas, pressure equipment and lifting equipment works are regulated in Estonia by the Equipment Safety Act¹³. A company that does such work as a business must submit a notice of economic activities¹⁵, and the notice counts as submitted only once a competent person has confirmed in the register their contract with the company²⁵. Audits of equipment are a separate activity, open only to accredited inspection bodies¹⁸.

Information as of 11 November 2026. Every numbered statement of this page was checked in the official text named below and re-checked by a second reviewer on 2026-11-11. The page is general information, not legal advice; the authority decides on every application.

What the activity is

The Equipment Safety Act (seadme ohutuse seadus, SeOS) defines "equipment work" (seadmetöö) as the design, manufacture, construction, installation, dismantling, adjustment, testing, inspection and repair of equipment and, where relevant, its filling and storage and other work that affects the properties of the equipment and is not its use¹. Equipment means pressure, gas or electrical equipment, a machine, or a technical system made of them, whose energy, fluid or process creates a danger to life, health, property or the environment even when an expert takes the expected care².

The act's requirements on competence, equipment work and audits apply to four groups of equipment³:

pressure equipment with an internal working pressure above 0.5 bar, or used to handle a hazardous chemical regardless of pressure (pressure equipment works);
gas equipment (gas works);
machines used to lift people, animals or goods (lifting equipment), including amusement park equipment (lift and machinery works);
electrical equipment (electrical works).

For electrical work, the minister's regulation lists simple jobs that an ordinary person may do, such as work on light sources, their external ballasts and fuses, or switching automatic circuit breakers on and off⁴. The act does not apply to military equipment and weapons, equipment held by foreign armed forces, or means of transport (except equipment installed on them and stationary installations such as pipelines and cableways)⁵.

An audit (audit) under the act is a technical inspection to establish whether equipment is in working order and safe for its intended use⁶.

The legal act and the authority

Act: Equipment Safety Act (seadme ohutuse seadus), in the wording in force since 1 July 2025⁷. The general rules on notices are in the General Part of the Economic Activities Code Act (majandustegevuse seadustiku üldosa seadus, MSÜS)⁸.
Detailed rules: the minister responsible for the field sets more detailed requirements for equipment work by regulation⁹, and may set the competence requirements for persons doing equipment work and audits¹⁰. For electrical work this is the regulation "Elektripaigaldise käidule ja elektritööle esitatavad nõuded"⁴.
Authority: the Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (Tarbijakaitse ja Tehnilise Järelevalve Amet, TTJA) supervises compliance with the act¹¹ and handles misdemeanour cases under it¹².
Register: the notice and the competent person's confirmation appear in the register of economic activities (majandustegevuse register, MTR)¹³. Audit results are reported through TTJA's supervision information system¹⁴.

Who must notify

An economic operator that does equipment work as an economic activity must submit a notice of economic activities¹⁵. The notice is submitted before the activity starts¹⁶. Under the general act, there is no notice obligation for an operator established in another contracting state that wants to provide services in Estonia temporarily within the meaning of Article 57 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, subject to the exceptions named there¹⁷.

Audits are different: the auditor must be accredited for the audit operations as an inspection body by an accreditation body meeting Regulation (EC) No 765/2008¹⁸. A conformity assessment body that confirms the suitability of the procedure for making permanent joints and the competence of persons who do non-destructive testing of permanent joints holds an activity licence under § 27 of the Product Conformity Act (toote nõuetele vastavuse seadus)¹⁹; that licence is outside the scope of this page.

Requirements for the applicant

Competent person. The person who directly does the work must be competent for it or work under the supervision and instruction of a competent person²⁰. A competent person knows the specifics of the equipment or work, can identify and prevent its dangers and uses safety techniques²¹. Competence is presumed to be proven by an occupational qualification certificate (kutsetunnistus) or a competence certificate issued by a certification body²². Qualifications obtained abroad are recognised under the Recognition of Foreign Professional Qualifications Act, with TTJA as the competent authority²³.

Contract with the company. The requirement is met if the competent person is a natural person who works for the company under a contract²⁴. The notice is deemed submitted only when the register contains that person's confirmation of the contract with the company²⁵. If the competent person withdraws the confirmation and was the company's only competent person in that field, the company is deemed not to have met its notification obligation for that field²⁶.

Other requirements. Whether share capital, own funds, management-board fitness or anti-money-laundering requirements apply is specified for the client's situation. The person who did electrical work documents the work²⁸.

Documents filed with the notice

The notice contains²⁹:

Company data: name and registry code, contact details, the activity's name under the act and its classification code, the start date if different from the filing date, and the signatory's name, contact details and basis of representation.
Competent person data: name and personal identification code (or date of birth), contact details, and, where a certificate is required, the qualification and level, the issuer, the certificate number, date and place of issue and validity³⁰.
Competent person's confirmation: filed by that person through the Estonian information gateway (eesti.ee) or with TTJA³¹.

If the notice is not filed through the Estonian information gateway or a notary, it is filed with TTJA together with the competent person's confirmation, and TTJA enters the data in the register³².

State fee and processing time

For a notice filed other than through the single point of contact, the state fee is EUR 10³³. The notice is deemed submitted when the register contains the competent person's confirmation²⁵. Where the registrar receives a notice, it enters the data no later than the working day after the filing³⁴. TTJA may still supervise the work at any time and use the special supervision measures the act names³⁵. These time limits are the law's, not a promise of a date.

What LexorCorp Global OÜ does and how to order

LexorCorp Global OÜ handles this work under its general service row "Activity licence application documentation", which covers an activity licence or a registration in the register of economic activities for an activity that has no page of its own on the site. The price starts from €3,500, one-time; no VAT is added³⁶. The service includes the requirements of the act for the activity from its official text, the application and the documents it needs, and the submission through the Register of Economic Activities with written follow-up of the authority's questions. The timeline is by agreement.

It does not include the state fee, legal, tax or audit advice, a promise of registration or of any authority decision, or meeting the act's staff requirements: the company must have its own competent person, and that person files the confirmation. The client describes the activity and provides what the act requires of the company.

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Sources

SeOS § 3(7) — text in force from 01.07.2025
SeOS § 3(1) — text in force from 01.07.2025
SeOS § 2(2) p 1-4 — text in force from 01.07.2025
Regulation no 74 'Elektripaigaldise käidule ja elektritööle esitatavad nõuded' § 4 — text in force from 08.01.2024
SeOS § 2(3) — text in force from 01.07.2025
SeOS § 8(1) — text in force from 01.07.2025
Riigi Teataja header, SeOS — text in force from 01.07.2025
MSÜS § 14(1), § 15 — text in force from 01.09.2025
SeOS § 7(3) — text in force from 01.07.2025
SeOS § 10(6) p 1 — text in force from 01.07.2025
SeOS § 14 — text in force from 01.07.2025
SeOS § 18 — text in force from 01.07.2025
SeOS § 13(3),(5) — text in force from 01.07.2025
SeOS § 9(3) — text in force from 01.07.2025
SeOS § 13(1) — text in force from 01.07.2025
MSÜS § 14(1) — text in force from 01.09.2025
MSÜS § 14(3) p 2 — text in force from 01.09.2025
SeOS § 8(4) — text in force from 01.07.2025
SeOS § 11(3) — text in force from 01.07.2025
SeOS § 7(2) p 1 — text in force from 01.07.2025
SeOS § 10(1) — text in force from 01.07.2025
SeOS § 10(3) — text in force from 01.07.2025
SeOS § 10(5) — text in force from 01.07.2025
MSÜS § 6(6) — text in force from 01.09.2025
SeOS § 13(5) — text in force from 01.07.2025
SeOS § 13(7) — text in force from 01.07.2025
Regulation no 74 § 3(4) — text in force from 08.01.2024
MSÜS § 15(1) — text in force from 01.09.2025
MSÜS § 15(2); SeOS § 13(1) — text in force from 01.09.2025
SeOS § 13(6) — text in force from 01.07.2025
SeOS § 13(3) — text in force from 01.07.2025
RLS § 345; MSÜS § 9(1),(6) — text in force from 01.11.2026
MSÜS § 59(2) (registrar); § 58(1) p 1 — text in force from 01.09.2025
SeOS § 15(1) — text in force from 01.07.2025
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Equipment works in Estonia: notice of economic activities and the competent person