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Fire safety services in Estonia: notice of economic activities and professional certificates

A company that designs, builds or maintains fire alarm, fire extinguishing or smoke extraction systems, checks fire extinguishers, or provides fire safety services such as fire safety audits, expert reviews or fire safety training in Estonia must file a notice of economic activities before it starts.

LexorCorp Global OÜ · published 11 November 2026

In short

A company that designs, builds or maintains fire alarm, fire extinguishing or smoke extraction systems, checks fire extinguishers, or provides fire safety services such as fire safety audits, expert reviews or fire safety training in Estonia must file a notice of economic activities before it starts 3 11 36 . The work itself must be done by a natural person with the qualification the Fire Safety Act names 19 20 22 . The Fire Safety Act (tuleohutuse seadus, TuOS) uses two groups of notice-bound activities.

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A company that designs, builds or maintains fire alarm, fire extinguishing or smoke extraction systems, checks fire extinguishers, or provides fire safety services such as fire safety audits, expert reviews or fire safety training in Estonia must file a notice of economic activities before it starts31136. The work itself must be done by a natural person with the qualification the Fire Safety Act names192022. This page sets out what the acts say.

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 Fire Safety Act (tuleohutuse seadus, TuOS) uses two groups of notice-bound activities.

Fire safety services (tuleohutusteenus). The act lists nine: (1) expert review of the fire safety part of a building design; (2) a fire safety audit of a building; (3) drawing up or approving the fire safety part of a building design where that design must undergo an expert review; (4) drawing up a self-inspection fire safety report; (5) holding evacuation and fire-response drills; (6) drawing up a fire-response plan; (7) fire safety training; (8) hot-work training; (9) a fire safety inspection1. A fire safety inspection is checking that a site, a building, its fire safety installations and the activity in it meet the fire safety requirements2.

Fire safety installation work. A notice is required for: (1) designing a fire extinguishing system, fire alarm system or smoke extraction system; (2) building and maintaining such systems; (3) checking and maintaining fire hose systems or fire extinguishers3.

For chimney sweeping, building stoves and chimneys, and hot work as a business, the Fire Safety Act requires a qualified person (a chimney sweep's or stove-builder's professional certificate, or a hot-work certificate after training)456.

The legal act and the authority

  • Fire Safety Act (tuleohutuse seadus) — the activities, the competence requirements and the notice duty. Notices under it follow the General Part of the Economic Activities Code Act even where the activity is not run as a business7.
  • General Part of the Economic Activities Code Act (majandustegevuse seadustiku üldosa seadus, MSÜS) — the notice procedure.
  • Professions Act (kutseseadus, KutS) — the professional certificate.

State supervision of the Fire Safety Act is carried out across the country by the Rescue Board (Päästeamet)8. The notice is entered in the Register of Economic Activities (majandustegevuse register, MTR), whose controller is the Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (Tarbijakaitse ja Tehnilise Järelevalve Amet, TTJA)9. Register data are available to everyone free of charge on the register's website10.

Who must apply

  • A provider of fire safety services must file a notice of economic activities11.
  • A person designing, building or maintaining fire extinguishing, fire alarm or smoke extraction systems, or checking and maintaining fire hose systems or fire extinguishers, must file a notice3.

Exemptions the act names:

  • No notice is needed for designing, building and maintaining the fire extinguishing system of the small buildings listed in TuOS § 23(2¹) (detached houses; two-apartment, terraced and semi-detached houses; apartment buildings other than high-rises; care and accommodation buildings with up to ten beds; assembly buildings with up to ten users; office buildings with up to ten workplaces)12.
  • An authorised architect (level 7) or authorised architect-expert (level 8) may provide services 1 and 3; that is not treated as economic activity13.
  • Services 5–7 (drills, fire-response plan, training) done by an employee for their own employer, even without a certificate, are not economic activity14.
  • A fire safety inspection done by a certified employee for their own employer is not economic activity15.
  • A self-inspection fire safety report drawn up by the building's holder is not a fire safety service16.
  • A business that filed a notice before 1 March 2021 is treated as having met the notice duty for the installation fields17.

Requirements for the applicant

Whether share capital, own funds, insurance or anti-money-laundering requirements apply is specified for the client's situation.

Fire safety services. Services 1–3 may be provided by a natural person holding a level 6 fire safety expert professional certificate19. Services 4–9 require a level 5 fire safety specialist or level 6 fire safety expert certificate20; for drills, fire safety training and hot-work training the certificate must also show the relevant chosen competence21. The notice counts as filed only when the register holds the service provider's confirmation of its legal relationship with the business11.

Installation work: the responsible specialist. The business must have a responsible specialist: a natural person competent to manage and check the design, building and maintenance of the systems and the checking and maintenance of extinguishers and hose systems, who is in a contractual relationship with the business22. For the systems, the specialist needs competence under the professional standard at the level where the person organises others' work and is responsible for it23. For extinguishers and fire hose systems, the specialist needs professional training and at least three years' work experience in the field24. The notice counts as filed only when the register holds the responsible specialist's confirmation of the relationship with the business25.

Professional certificate. Under the Professions Act a professional certificate is an electronic entry in the professions register, and a document issued on that basis, proving that the person's competence meets the professional standard; a paper certificate is valid only if the register holds the entry26. The fee for awarding a profession is approved by the relevant professional council27.

Foreign qualifications. A person with a qualification obtained abroad may provide fire safety services if it is recognised under the Recognition of Foreign Professional Qualifications Act; the competent authority is the Rescue Board28. A responsible specialist's qualification obtained in another European Economic Area (EEA) state is recognised under the same act29.

Seat and management: whether a seat or place-of-management requirement applies is specified for the client's situation. A company being founded becomes subject to the notice duty when it acquires legal capacity30.

Documents filed

A notice filed electronically is digitally signed or filed in another similarly secure way that identifies the business31. It contains:

  • Business data: name and registry code, contact details, the activity's name under the act and its EMTAK classification code, the start date if different, and the signatory's name, contacts and basis of representation32.
  • Qualified person: name and personal identification code, contact details, work experience where required, and the certificate details: profession and level, awarding body, certificate number, place and date of issue and validity33.
  • Confirmation by the fire safety service provider or responsible specialist of the relationship with the business, entered in the register1125.

Later changes to the general data must be notified to the registrar within five working days34.

State fee and processing time

Notices may be filed through the single contact point, that is the state portal (Eesti teabevärav) or a notary39; under the State Fees Act (riigilõivuseadus) a notice filed in any other way costs a state fee of 10 euros35. The certificate itself has its own fee set for the profession (section 4)27.

The notice must be filed before the activity starts36. The registrar enters the data in the register no later than the working day after the notice is filed37. The authority or the registrar checks the data if there is reasonable doubt about their accuracy38, and the Rescue Board supervises compliance with the act8. These time limits are the law's, not a promise of a result.

What LexorCorp Global OÜ does and how to order

LexorCorp Global OÜ prepares the documents for the notice of economic activities and manages the process: it sets out the requirements of the act for the activity from its official text, makes the submission through the Register of Economic Activities and follows up the authority's questions in writing. It gives no legal, tax or audit advice, does not provide fire safety services or professional certificates, and cannot promise registration, a date or any decision of an authority.

The price is given on request. Request a price for the relevant activity in our guide Licensed activities in Estonia, section "Fire safety".

Sources

  1. Tuleohutuse seadus § 2(1¹) — text in force from 01.01.2025 (RT I, 29.06.2024, 7)
  2. Tuleohutuse seadus § 2(1²) — text in force from 01.01.2025 (RT I, 29.06.2024, 7)
  3. Tuleohutuse seadus § 33(1) — text in force from 01.01.2025 (RT I, 29.06.2024, 7)
  4. Tuleohutuse seadus § 11¹(4); notice duty only in § 4¹(7) and § 33(1) — text in force from 01.01.2025 (RT I, 29.06.2024, 7)
  5. Tuleohutuse seadus § 9(1) — text in force from 01.01.2025 (RT I, 29.06.2024, 7)
  6. Tuleohutuse seadus § 14(1) — text in force from 01.01.2025 (RT I, 29.06.2024, 7)
  7. Tuleohutuse seadus § 1(4) — text in force from 01.01.2025 (RT I, 29.06.2024, 7)
  8. Tuleohutuse seadus § 38(1) p 1 — text in force from 01.01.2025 (RT I, 29.06.2024, 7)
  9. Majandustegevuse seadustiku üldosa seadus § 8(1), (4) — text in force from 01.09.2025
  10. Majandustegevuse seadustiku üldosa seadus § 51(2) — text in force from 01.09.2025
  11. Tuleohutuse seadus § 4¹(7) — text in force from 01.01.2025 (RT I, 29.06.2024, 7)
  12. Tuleohutuse seadus § 33(1¹); § 23(2¹) — text in force from 01.01.2025 (RT I, 29.06.2024, 7)
  13. Tuleohutuse seadus § 4¹(1¹) — text in force from 01.01.2025 (RT I, 29.06.2024, 7)
  14. Tuleohutuse seadus § 4¹(3) — text in force from 01.01.2025 (RT I, 29.06.2024, 7)
  15. Tuleohutuse seadus § 4¹(5) — text in force from 01.01.2025 (RT I, 29.06.2024, 7)
  16. Tuleohutuse seadus § 4¹(4) — text in force from 01.01.2025 (RT I, 29.06.2024, 7)
  17. Tuleohutuse seadus § 61(5) — text in force from 01.01.2025 (RT I, 29.06.2024, 7)
  18. Tuleohutuse seadus § 4¹(1) — text in force from 01.01.2025 (RT I, 29.06.2024, 7)
  19. Tuleohutuse seadus § 4¹(2) — text in force from 01.01.2025 (RT I, 29.06.2024, 7)
  20. Tuleohutuse seadus § 4¹(2¹) — text in force from 01.01.2025 (RT I, 29.06.2024, 7)
  21. Tuleohutuse seadus § 34(1); § 33(2) — text in force from 01.01.2025 (RT I, 29.06.2024, 7)
  22. Tuleohutuse seadus § 34(2) — text in force from 01.01.2025 (RT I, 29.06.2024, 7)
  23. Tuleohutuse seadus § 34(3) — text in force from 01.01.2025 (RT I, 29.06.2024, 7)
  24. Tuleohutuse seadus § 33(3) — text in force from 01.01.2025 (RT I, 29.06.2024, 7)
  25. Kutseseadus § 21(1), (4) — text in force from 15.03.2019 (RT I, 13.03.2019, 10)
  26. Kutseseadus § 17¹(1) — text in force from 15.03.2019 (RT I, 13.03.2019, 10)
  27. Tuleohutuse seadus § 4¹(6) — text in force from 01.01.2025 (RT I, 29.06.2024, 7)
  28. Tuleohutuse seadus § 34(4) — text in force from 01.01.2025 (RT I, 29.06.2024, 7)
  29. Majandustegevuse seadustiku üldosa seadus § 14(4) — text in force from 01.09.2025
  30. Majandustegevuse seadustiku üldosa seadus § 11(5) — text in force from 01.09.2025
  31. Majandustegevuse seadustiku üldosa seadus § 15(1) — text in force from 01.09.2025
  32. Majandustegevuse seadustiku üldosa seadus § 15(2) — text in force from 01.09.2025
  33. Majandustegevuse seadustiku üldosa seadus § 30(5) — text in force from 01.09.2025
  34. Riigilõivuseadus § 345; MSÜS § 9(6), § 58(1) p 1 — text in force from 01.11.2026 (RT I, 21.10.2026, 10)
  35. Majandustegevuse seadustiku üldosa seadus § 14(1) — text in force from 01.09.2025
  36. Majandustegevuse seadustiku üldosa seadus § 59(2) — text in force from 01.09.2025
  37. Majandustegevuse seadustiku üldosa seadus § 62(1) — text in force from 01.09.2025
  38. Majandustegevuse seadustiku üldosa seadus § 9(1), (6) — text in force from 01.09.2025 (RT I, 02.01.2025, 26)

Official sources

The laws this article names, each linked to its official text, as read on 9 October 2026. For the Estonian acts we read the English translation in Riigi Teataja; the legally binding text is the Estonian one.

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