Who are Required to Submit Declarations?

Those who submit declarations of interest are divided in two:

1. officials who are stated in law

Submission of the declaration is required from the highest local and state authorities stated in the Anti-Corruption Act §13, including authorities with the competence of constitutional institutions, state level political decision-makers, heads of authorities of executive power:

State-level officials who are required to submit the declaration are the President, members of the Riigikogu, members of the Government of the Republic, judges, Auditor General, Chancellor of Justice, members of the managing body of Eesti Pank, Director of the Office of the President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Riigikogu, heads of government agencies, Assistant Ministers, secretaries general of ministries, Director of the Government Office;

Local level officials who are required to issue the declaration are members of local government councils, members of municipality or city governments, municipality or city district elders, managers of municipality or city agencies.

2. officials who are stated in law, provided that the respective obligation has been imposed by the head etc of the authoroty

court officials, if such an obligation has been established by the chairman of the court;
officials of the Chancellery of the Riigikogu, if such an obligation has been established by the Director of the Chancellery of the Riigikogu;
officials of the Office of the President of the Republic, if such an obligation has been established by the Director of the Office of the President of the Republic;
officials of the State Audit Office, if such an obligation has been established by the Auditor General;
officials of the Office of the Chancellor of Justice, if such an obligation has been established by the Chancellor of Justice;
officials of Eesti Pank, if such an obligation has been established by the President of Eesti Pank;
officials of government agencies, if such an obligation has been established by the heads of government agencies or secretaries general of ministries;
officials of agencies administered by government agencies or agencies representing the state belonging to the area of government of another government agency, if such an obligation has been established by the head of the government agency administering the agency or exercising supervision over the agency or the secretary general of a ministry;
officials of municipalities or cities, if such an obligation has been established by the local government council;
officials of legal persons in public law, if such an obligation has been established by the minister exercising supervision over the legal person in public law or the supervisory board or comparable bodies of the legal persons in public law;
members of the management bodies of public undertakings for the purposes of the Competition Act, if such an obligation has been established by the minister exercising dominant influence of the state in the undertaking, the local government council if the local government has dominant influence on the undertaking or the supervisory board or comparable body of a legal person in public law if the legal person in public law has dominant influence on the undertaking;
members of management bodies of foundations established by the state, local governments or legal persons in public law, if such an obligation has been established by the minister exercising the rights of the state, local government council or the supervisory board or comparable bodies of the legal persons in public law;
persons to whom the competence of making the decision or performing the act in the case of performance of public duties has been delegated by law or a contract under public law, if such an obligation has been established by the minister exercising supervision over the person, local government council or the supervisory board or comparable bodies of the legal persons in public law.

This obligation is not established for officials of security authorities and officials of structural units of other government agencies if the membership of the structural unit is a state secret. The heads of security authorities or other government agencies in the case of which the membership of their structural units is a state secret may require submission of the information required to be submitted in a declaration as an internal audit measure of the agency.