The Riigikogu approved the agenda for the working week. 

Among other things, on Tuesday’s sitting, Prime Minister Andrus Ansip is going to give an overview of the situation in research and development activities and the Government’s policy in this sphere.  

At the sitting on Wednesday, five Bills are going to be at the third reading: the Bill on Amendments to Acts regulating Legal Protection of Industrial Property and Associated Acts (281 SE), the Employment Contracts Bill (299 SE), the Bill on Amendments to the Social Welfare Act, the Social Benefits for Disabled Persons Act and Associated Acts (370 SE), the Bill on Amendments to the Electricity Market Act (311 SE) and the Bill on Amendments to the Aviation Act and the Weapons Act (316 SE). The Draft Resolution “Extension of the Time Limit of the Use of the Estonian Defence Forces in Performance of International Duties of the Estonian State in Iraq” (394 OE) is going to be at the second reading. 

Four Bills are scheduled for the third reading on Thursday’s sitting: the Bill on Amendments to the Public Transport Act and Associated Acts (364 SE), the Bill on Amendments to the Government of the Republic Act and to Other Acts, related to Merger of Environmental Authorities of the Ministry of the Environment, the State Nature Conservation Centre and the Radiation Protection Centre into the Environment and Nature Protection Board (367 SE), the Bill on Amendments to the Courts Act (326 SE) and the Bill on Amendments to the Aliens Act and Other Acts arising from Implementation of Levels of Language Proficiency Defined in Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (325 SE). 

During the open microphone, Mark Soosaar and Aivar Riisalu took the floor.