Regular sessions of the Riigikogu shall take place from the second Monday of January to the third Thursday of June, and from the second Monday of September to the third Thursday of December.
Three consecutive plenary working weeks form a plenary working cycle of the Riigikogu. The week following a plenary working cycle is allotted for members of the Riigikogu to work with their constituents and to perform duties assigned by the Riigikogu, committees or factions and other duties of members of the Riigikogu.
The Riigikogu shall work according to the following schedule:
1) Monday:
9.00-11.00: work in factions
11.00-13.00: work in standing committees, except in European Affairs Committee
14.00-15.00: work in European Affairs Committee, select and study committees and committees of investigation
15.00: a sitting of the Riigikogu begins at which replies are made to interpellations. After replies have been made to all interpellations on the agenda, the time for unscheduled statements from members of the Riigikogu begins and continues until no further requests for statements are made. If replies to interpellations are not scheduled on the agenda of a sitting of the Riigikogu, the unscheduled statements of members of the Riigikogu shall begin after approval of the agenda for the plenary working week and continue until no further requests for statements are made;
2) Tuesday:
9.00-10.00: work in factions
10.00-13.00: sitting of the Riigikogu
14.00 work begins in standing committees, except in European Affairs Committee, and continues until all items on the agenda have been deliberated;
3) Wednesday:
9.00-10.00: work in factions
13.00-14.00: question time
14.00: a sitting of the Riigikogu begins and continues until all the items concerning draft legislation introduced by the Government of the Republic on the agenda have been deliberated, but for not longer than until the beginning of the sitting on Thursday;
4) Thursday:
10.00-13.00: sitting of the Riigikogu
14.00-16.00: work in standing committees, except in European Affairs Committee
16.00: work begins in select and study committees and committees of investigation;
5) Friday:
10.00-11.00: work in Foreign Relations Committee
11.00 work begins in European Union Affairs Committee and continues until all items on the agenda have been deliberated
Members of the Riigikogu shall work with their constituents, perform duties assigned by the Riigikogu, factions and committees, or perform other duties of members of the Riigikogu.