Our Life Sciences & Healthcare team has prepared a summary of measures adopted up to April 14 2020 in Estonia specifically targeted at Life Sciences companies. A draft law is currently pending in the Estonian parliament which foresees many changes to the law due to the Covid-19 crisis. Among others, the Medicinal Products Act is […]
Government initiates bill to cancel pharmacy reform The parliamentary Social Affairs Committee has initiated a bill to cancel pharmacy reform. Although supported by the coalition government, the bill did not pass the first reading in the parliament. As a result, at the present moment uncertainty around pharmacy reform continues. The plan to cancel pharmacy reform […]
Estonia and Portugal agree to mutually recognise electronic prescriptions Estonia and Portugal signed an agreement on mutual recognition of electronic prescriptions by the end of 2019. The agreement was signed on 16 April 2019 by the Estonian minister of entrepreneurship and information technology and the Portuguese minister of health. Now both Estonia and Portugal will […]
Transport conglomerate Mootor Grupp is taking the Estonian state to court on the issue of compensation for free transportation of children, and people with disabilities, which it says should come from the state and not from its own coffers, Baltic News Service reports. Mootor Grupp is the parent company of Lux Express and SEBE coach […]
In a parliamentary state, the president is not involved in the formation of a government, which is why they generally lack the right to reject a candidate for minister in connection with, for example, political convictions, writes attorney and former Chancellor of Justice Allar Jõks. Would it be a constitutional crisis if the president were […]
