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18.02.2009 RT I 2009, 15, 94 10.03.2009, applied to persons in respect of whom a judgment of conviction enters into force after the entry into force of the Act.
18.02.2015 RT I, 10.03.2015, 3 01.04.2015, throughout the Estonian text of the Act, except in Chapter 5, the words "prokuröri abi" have been replaced with the word "abiprokurör" in the appropriate case form.
(1) The prosecutor's office is a government agency within the area of government of the Ministry of Justice which participates in the planning of surveillance necessary to combat and detect criminal offences, directs pre-trial criminal procedure and ensures the legality and efficiency thereof, represents public prosecution in court and performs other duties assigned to the prosecutor's office by law.
(11) The prosecutor’s office is independent in the performance of its functions arising from law, and it acts pursuant to this Act, other Acts, and legislation issued on the basis thereof.
(2) The prosecutor's office is divided into the Office of the Prosecutor General and into district prosecutor's offices subordinate to it.
(1) Prosecutors are the prosecutors of the Office of the Prosecutor General and prosecutors of the district prosecutor's offices.
(2) Prosecutors shall be independent in the performance of their duties and act only pursuant to law and according to their conscience.
(1) The Prosecutor General shall direct the prosecutor's office and perform other duties imposed on him or her by law.
(2) If the Prosecutor General is temporarily unable to perform his or her duties due to illness or other hindrance, the minister responsible for the area shall designate a substitute for him or her from among the prosecutors of the Office of the Prosecutor General.
(1) The prosecutors of the Office of the Prosecutor General shall ensure the legality and efficacy of pre-trial procedure, represent public prosecutions in the courts and perform other duties imposed on them by law.
(2) The prosecutors of the Office of the Prosecutor General are the Prosecutor General, the chief state prosecutors, state prosecutors and assistant prosecutors.
(3) The Office of the Prosecutor General may be divided into departments, which shall be approved by the minister responsible for the area. The Prosecutor General shall designate the state prosecutors and assistant prosecutors who belong to the departments.
(1) Chief state prosecutors direct the departments of the Office of the Prosecutor General and perform other duties imposed on them by law.
(2) Within their area of responsibility, chief state prosecutors have the right to issue orders to district prosecutor's offices.
(3) The Prosecutor General shall designate substitutes for chief state prosecutors from among the prosecutors of the Office of the Prosecutor General for the event of temporary inability of chief state prosecutors to perform their duties due to illness or other hindrance.
(1) The prosecutors of a district prosecutor's office shall ensure the legality and efficacy of pre-trial procedure, represent public prosecutions in the courts and perform other duties imposed on them by law.
(2) The prosecutors of a district prosecutor's office are the chief prosecutor, senior prosecutors, specialised prosecutors, district prosecutors and assistant prosecutors.
(3) The location and territorial jurisdiction of a district prosecutor's office shall be established by a regulation of the Government of the Republic.
(4) A district prosecutor's office may be divided into departments, which shall be approved by the minister responsible for the area. A chief prosecutor shall appoint specialised prosecutors, district prosecutors and assistant prosecutors to departments. A chief prosecutor has the right to transfer a district prosecutor to another regional department within the same territorial jurisdiction without a public competition with his or her consent.
The minister responsible for the area shall determine the number of prosecutors in the Office of the Prosecutor General and prosecutors in the district prosecutor's offices.
(1) Chief prosecutors direct district prosecutor's offices and perform other duties imposed on them by law.
(2) The Prosecutor General shall designate substitutes for chief prosecutors for the event of temporary inability of chief prosecutors to perform their duties due to illness or other hindrance.
(1) Senior prosecutors direct the departments of district prosecutor's offices and perform other duties imposed on them by law.
(2) A chief prosecutor shall designate substitutes for senior prosecutors from among the prosecutors of district prosecutor's offices for the event of temporary inability of senior prosecutors to perform their duties due to illness or other hindrance.
(1) Assistant prosecutors shall act under the supervision of the Prosecutor General, chief state prosecutor, chief prosecutor, state prosecutor, senior prosecutor, specialised prosecutor or district prosecutor.
(2) Assistant prosecutors may perform the duties imposed on prosecutors in court proceedings regarding criminal matters sent to court pursuant to the general procedure to the extent as to which higher ranking prosecutors have authorised them in specific criminal proceedings.
(3) Assistant prosecutors shall not be members of the prosecutors' competition committee or prosecutors' disciplinary committee.
(1) After considering the opinion of the prosecutors of the Office of the Prosecutor General, the Prosecutor General shall determine their division of duties. A chief prosecutor shall determine the division of duties of prosecutors of a district prosecutor's office after considering the opinion of the prosecutors of the district prosecutor's office.
(2) Duties shall be divided according to type of criminal offence, offender or other general criteria. The procedure for the substitution of prosecutors shall also be determined in a plan for the division of duties.
(3) A plan for the division of duties may be amended only with compelling reason.
(1) The Ministry of Justice shall exercise supervisory control over the prosecutor's office. The supervisory control over the prosecutor's office exercised by the Ministry of Justice does not extend to the activities of the prosecutor's office in planning of surveillance, pre-trial criminal proceedings and representing of public prosecution in court.
(2) The Prosecutor General shall exercise supervisory control in the prosecutor's office, and chief prosecutors shall exercise supervisory control in district prosecutor's offices.
(3) Persons exercising supervisory control have the right to demand explanations and information from prosecutors under their supervisory control.
The Prosecutor General or a chief prosecutor may, with compelling reason, substitute for a subordinate prosecutor in criminal proceedings or impose such obligation on another subordinate prosecutor, who shall not be a subordinate of the person substituted. A substitution order shall be in writing, shall set out the extent to which one person substitutes for another and shall justify the need for substitution.
(1) The Prosecutor General shall submit a consolidated activity report of the prosecutor's office to the minister responsible for the area once a year. The term for submission of the reports and the requirements for the reports shall be established by a directive of the minister responsible for the area.
(2) The Prosecutor General shall present to the Constitutional Committee of the Riigikogu each year at the spring session of the Riigikogu an overview of the performance of the duties imposed on the prosecutor's office by law during the previous calendar year.
(3) In addition to the regular reports specified in subsections (1) and (2) of this section, the Prosecutor General may submit to the Constitutional Committee of the Riigikogu reports concerning significant issues which have an extensive effect or need prompt settlement and which become known in the course of the activities of the prosecutor's office.
(1) For the performance of administrative functions, an administration department may be formed in the prosecutor's office, which shall be approved by the minister responsible for the area.
(2) An administration department shall be directed by the director of administration.
The minister responsible for the area shall approve the statutes of the prosecutor's office.
(1) The Prosecutors' Assembly is a meeting of all prosecutors, which shall be convened at least once a year.
5) consider issues concerning the activities of the prosecutor's offices and prosecutors' service and make proposals for the resolution thereof.
(3) The Prosecutor General shall convene the Prosecutors' Assembly and direct its activities.
The provisions of the Public Service Act apply to prosecutors' service unless otherwise provided by this Act.
4) has the abilities and personal characteristics necessary for working as a prosecutor.
5) a person who due to his or her state of health is unable to work as a prosecutor. In the case of doubt, a medical committee shall determine the state of health of a person.
(3) A person who has been employed for one year as a prosecutor or for three years as a judge, police officer, sworn advocate or in another position which requires in-depth knowledge of penal law and procedure may be appointed as a district prosecutor.
(4) A person who is employed as a prosecutor, except an assistant prosecutor, before appointment to office may be appointed as a specialised prosecutor.
(5) A person who has been employed as a judge, prosecutor, police officer or sworn advocate for three years before appointment to office may be appointed as a chief prosecutor or senior prosecutor.
(6) A person who has been employed in a position which requires high qualification in law for at least two years may be appointed as a chief state prosecutor and a state prosecutor.
(8) A person who is an experienced and recognised lawyer may be appointed as the Prosecutor General.
2) declaration of interests conforming to the requirements provided for in the Anti-corruption Act as at the first day of the month preceding the application.
(2) In the form concerning personal data, the applicant shall also indicate the given names, surnames, personal identification codes (in the absence of identification code, the date and place of birth) and details of the applicant's relatives and relatives by marriage (parents, sisters, brothers, children, spouse, former spouse).
(3) The form used to apply for prosecutor's service shall be approved by the minister responsible for the area.
4) examine the data obtained by surveillance activities.
(5) An agency or person who receives the inquiry specified in this section shall immediately answer the inquiry.
(6) The prosecutors' competition committee shall immediately inform a person applying for prosecutor's service of the scrutiny conducted with regard to his or her background and enable to examine the materials gathered in the process of the checks.
(7) If a person who applies for prosecutor's service intentionally presents incorrect data to the prosecutors' competition committee or conceals material information, such person is excluded from the competition by resolution of the prosecutors' competition committee.
(1) The Government of the Republic shall appoint the Prosecutor General to office on the proposal of the minister responsible for the area after considering the opinion of the Legal Affairs Committee of the Riigikogu.
(2) The minister responsible for the area shall appoint the chief state prosecutor, state prosecutor or chief prosecutor to office on the proposal of the Prosecutor General.
(3) The Prosecutor General shall appoint senior prosecutors to office on the proposal of chief prosecutors.
(5) The Prosecutor General shall appoint specialised prosecutors, district prosecutors and assistant prosecutors to office on the proposal of the prosecutors' competition committee.
(6) A person may be appointed as the Prosecutor General or a chief prosecutor if he or she gives written consent for such appointment.
(7) A person shall not be appointed as a prosecutor if he or she does not meet the requirements for prosecutors. A decision not to appoint a person as a prosecutor shall be justified.
(1) The minister responsible for the area has the right to transfer, without a public competition, a chief state prosecutor, chief prosecutor or state prosecutor on the basis of his or her written application to a position of a lower prosecutor to be filled by way of public competition.
(2) The Prosecutor General has the right to transfer, without a public competition, a senior prosecutor, specialised prosecutor or district prosecutor on the basis of his or her written application to a position of a lower prosecutor to be filled by way of public competition.
(3) The Prosecutor General has the right to transfer a specialised prosecutor, district prosecutor or assistant prosecutor to the same position in another prosecutor's office without a public competition with his or her consent.
(4) If a prosecutor is transferred from one service area to another, the expenses arising from change of residence may be compensated to the prosecutor within two months after moving to the new service area.
(5) The procedure for compensation for expenses specified in subsection (4) of this section shall be established by a regulation of the minister responsible for the area.
(1) The Prosecutor General and a chief prosecutor shall be appointed to office for a term of five years.
(2) A chief state prosecutor, state prosecutor, senior prosecutor, specialised prosecutor and assistant prosecutor shall be appointed to office for an unspecified term.
(3) A substitute state prosecutor, specialised prosecutor, district prosecutor or assistant prosecutor shall be appointed to office for a specified term until the return to or release from office of the person substituted. A substitute state prosecutor, specialised prosecutor, district prosecutor or assistant prosecutor may, with his or her consent, be appointed to a vacant position of the same or a lower prosecutor for an unspecified term during the substitution and one year after the end of the substitution without a public competition.
(1) A specialised prosecutor, district prosecutor and assistant prosecutor shall be appointed to office on the basis of a public competition.
(2) The Prosecutor General authorised to appoint prosecutors to office shall announce a public competition for the position of a specialised prosecutor, district prosecutor and assistant prosecutor in the official publication Ametlikud Teadaanded. Applicants shall be given at least two weeks after the date of publication of the notice for submission of their applications.
(3) The Prosecutor General, chief state prosecutors, state prosecutors, chief prosecutors and senior prosecutors may be appointed to office without a public competition.
(1) The prosecutors' competition committee shall assess the suitability of an applicant for a position.
(2) If a prosecutor applies for a vacant position, the prosecutor to whom the applicant is directly subordinate shall present a reasoned opinion on the applicant to the prosecutors' competition committee.
8) assistant prosecutor, salary grade 1.
(2) The salary of a prosecutor shall be determined for one year at least.
(3) The salaries corresponding to the salary grades of prosecutors and the procedure of and terms and conditions for payment of the variable salary provided for in the Public Service Act shall be established by a regulation of the Government of the Republic in adherence with the principles of determining judge's salaries provided for in the High-Ranking State Public Servants Salaries Act.
(31) Differentiated salary rates may be established within the salary grades corresponding to the positions of prosecutors appointed to office in or transferred to some regions or prosecutors employed in such regions. The differentiated salary rate, the bases for, terms of and specifications concerning the application thereof shall be established by a regulation of the Government of the Republic.
(32) The monthly salary rate of the Prosecutor General shall not be higher than the product of the salary rate specified in subsection 2 (1) of the High-Ranking State Public Servants Salaries Act, the highest salary rate index specified in subsection (2) and a coefficient of 0.85. No variable salary shall be paid to the Prosecutor General.
(4) The grounds for the formation of the salaries of prosecutors shall be established in the salary guide for prosecutor's offices. The salary guide shall be established by a directive of the minister responsible for the area.
(1) Prosecutors have the right to receive an annual holiday.
(2) A prosecutor's holiday lasts 35 calendar days.
(4) The Prosecutor General shall approve the holiday schedule of prosecutors in the Office of the Prosecutor General and a chief prosecutor shall approve the holiday schedule of prosecutors in a district prosecutor's office.
(5) The Prosecutor General and a chief prosecutor may, based on the interests of work management, establish restrictions on the length of holiday and time of holiday taken at a time. In such case, the duration of one continuous part of holiday must be at least 14 calendar days and, at the request of the prosecutor, 21 calendar days. The duration of other parts of the holiday may be shorter.
(1) On-call time is the time during which a prosecutor shall be available outside of working time for the performance of unforeseeable or urgent duties.
(2) On-call time specified in subsection (1) is considered part of rest time. Upon implementation of on-call time, the provisions of § 48 the Employment Contracts Act shall not apply to a prosecutor.
(3) Additional remuneration of up to ten per cent of the prosecutor's salary shall be paid for on-call time. The procedure for and cases of payment of additional remuneration shall be established by a regulation of the minister responsible for the area.
(4) The duration of on-call time shall not exceed 250 hours per month without the consent of the prosecutor.
(5) The portion of on-call time during which the prosecutor performs his or her duties is considered his or her working time. In such case the requirement provided for in §§ 51 and 52 of the Employment Contracts Act concerning consecutive rest periods shall not apply to the prosecutor.
The Prosecutor General shall apply incentives with regard to prosecutors.
The state shall compensate a prosecutor and his or her family members for any proprietary damage which they suffer during the performance of the duties of the prosecutor.
(1) A prosecutor who has been employed as a prosecutor for at least twenty-five years has the right to receive a prosecutor's old-age pension when he or she attains the pensionable age, except in the case he or she has been released from service due to entry into force of a judgment of conviction for an intentionally committed criminal offence.
(2) A person who has been employed as a prosecutor for at least fifteen years and as a judge or police officer for at least ten years prior to it also has the right to receive a prosecutor's old-age pension, except in the case when he or she has been released from service due to the entry into force of a judgment of conviction for an intentionally committed criminal offence.
(3) The amount of a prosecutor's old-age pension is 65 per cent of the minimum salary rate established by a regulation of the Government of the Republic corresponding to the prosecutor's most recent position without considering the increase of the salary rate due to working in the specific area.
(4) If the minimum salary rate of the position of prosecutor in which the person who receives a prosecutor's old-age pension was employed is changed, the prosecutor's old-age pension shall be recalculated. In such case, the pension shall be paid in the altered amount as of the first day of the following month.
(5) The portion of a prosecutor's old-age pension which exceeds the general old-age pension shall be paid from the state budget.
(6) A prosecutor's old-age pension shall not be paid during the period of employment as a prosecutor. If a retired prosecutor is employed elsewhere, he or she shall receive the prosecutor's old-age pension in full regardless of the amount of the earnings.
(7) A person convicted for an offence provided for in Chapter 15 or Division 2 of Chapter 17 of the Penal Code, for which the Penal Code prescribes at least up to five years' imprisonment, loses the right to a prosecutor's old-age pension provided for in this section.
(8) If a person was paid the procurator's old-age pension provided for in this section, the payment of the pension is terminated as of the month following the month of entry into force of the judgment. In the case of losing the right to a prosecutor's old-age pension provided for in this section, the person retains the right to apply for a pension pursuant to general principles.
(9) The court is required to notify the Social Insurance Board within ten working days as of the entry into force of the court judgment in writing of the fact in connection with which the person loses the right to the prosecutor's old-age pension provided for in this section.
(10) The provisions of the State Pension Insurance Act apply upon payment of the prosecutor's old-age pension provided for in this section, unless otherwise provided by this Act.
A prosecutor shall not disclose information which becomes known to him or her in connection with the performance of his or her duties if this may prejudice the administration of justice. The obligation of professional secrecy has an unspecified term.
(1) Prosecutors are required to supervise trainees on the orders of the Prosecutor General or chief prosecutors.
(2) No prosecutor shall be required to supervise more than one trainee at a time.
(1) A prosecutor shall not be a member of a political party.
(2) The Prosecutor General shall not be in any elected or appointed office outside his or her official duties. The Prosecutor General shall immediately inform the minister responsible for the area in writing if he or she acts or intents to act outside his or her official duties based on a contract of employment or contract for provision of services as an undertaking or a general partner in a general or limited partnership or a member of the management or controlling body of a legal person. Official duties for the purposes of this section have the meaning assigned to them in the Anti-corruption Act.
(3) The minister responsible for the area prohibits the Prosecutor General by an administrative act from engaging in full or in part in the ancillary activities specified in subsection (1) of this section, if the volume of labour spent on the ancillary activities or the nature thereof hinders regular performance of his or her duties or if the ancillary activity brings about a breach of duties.
(1) A disciplinary penalty may be imposed on a prosecutor for a disciplinary offence.
2) indecent act – a wrongful act which is in conflict with the generally recognised moral standards or which discredits the prosecutor or the prosecutor's office, regardless of whether such act is committed in the performance of duties or not.
(1) Disciplinary proceedings shall be initiated if elements of a disciplinary offence become evident. An interested person may submit an application for the initiation of disciplinary proceedings. An application for the initiation of disciplinary proceedings shall be submitted within six months after the date on which the person submitting the application became or should have become aware of the circumstances on which the application was based.
3) a chief prosecutor against the prosecutors of a district prosecutor's office subordinate to him or her.
(3) In the case specified in subsection (2) 1) of this section, the minister responsible for the area may determine upon initiation of the disciplinary proceedings that the Minister of Justice shall hear the disciplinary offence.
(1) A person who initiates disciplinary proceedings shall conduct the preliminary processing of the disciplinary offence. The minister responsible for the area may assign the task of conducting the preliminary processing of disciplinary proceedings initiated by the Minister of Justice against a chief state prosecutor or a chief prosecutor to the Prosecutor General.
(2) A person who conducts the preliminary processing of a disciplinary offence may gather evidence and demand explanations which are necessary to adjudicate the disciplinary matter. It is compulsory to demand explanations from the prosecutor against whom disciplinary proceedings are initiated.
(3) The person conducting the preliminary processing of a disciplinary offence may assign the task of gathering evidence and demanding explanations to a prosecutor designated by such person. The task cannot be assigned to a prosecutor who is a member of the prosecutors' disciplinary committee, a prosecutor against whom the disciplinary proceeding is initiated or prosecutors subordinate to him or her.
(1) A person who conducts preliminary processing of a disciplinary offence may suspend the prosecutor for the time of the disciplinary proceedings.
(2) Suspension shall be formalised in an administrative act.
(3) A prosecutor shall be paid 60 percent of his or her average salary for the last six months during the period when the prosecutor is suspended on the basis of subsection (1) of this section, but not less than the minimum salary established on the basis of subsection 29 (5) of the Employment Contracts Act. If the guilt of a prosecutor is not proved to the extent which would result in release from service and he or she is not punished under disciplinary procedure by release from service, the outstanding salary shall be paid to him or her retroactively.
(1) If, in the course of preliminary processing of a disciplinary offence, all the necessary evidence and explanations have been collected, a person who conducts the preliminary processing of the disciplinary offence or a prosecutor designated thereby shall prepare a disciplinary charge.
5) the date and place of preparation of the charge.
(3) The person conducting the preliminary processing of the disciplinary offence shall submit the disciplinary charge to the disciplinary committee or in the case specified in subsection 32 (3) of this Act to the minister responsible for the area.
(4) A disciplinary charge shall not be brought and a disciplinary proceeding shall be terminated if more than three years have passed from the commission of the disciplinary offence.
(1) The prosecutors' disciplinary committee or in the cases specified in subsection 32 (3) of this Act the minister responsible for the area shall hear a prosecutor's disciplinary offence.
(2) If it is necessary to gather supplementary evidence, the person hearing the disciplinary offence shall defer the hearing of the disciplinary offence, determine the time and place of the next session and assign the task of gathering supplementary evidence to the person conducting the preliminary processing of the disciplinary offence or the person who prepared the charge.
(3) The disciplinary committee shall comprise two prosecutors of the Office of the Prosecutor General, two prosecutors from district prosecutor's offices and one judge elected by the Court en banc. The disciplinary committee shall be elected for three years. The disciplinary committee shall elect the chairman of the disciplinary committee from among its members who are prosecutors.
(4) The minister responsible for the area shall establish the procedures of the disciplinary committee by a regulation.
(1) The chairman of the disciplinary committee or in the cases specified in subsection 32 (3) of this Act the minister responsible for the area shall determine the time and place of the session of the disciplinary committee.
(2) The person who conducts the preliminary processing of the disciplinary offence and the person having prepared the charge and the prosecutor charged shall be invited to the session. In the case an assistant prosecutor is charged with a disciplinary offence, his or her supervising prosecutor shall also be invited to the session of the disciplinary committee.
(1) The prosecutor charged with a disciplinary offence shall be given the disciplinary charge at least three days before the session of the disciplinary committee is held.
(2) The prosecutor charged with a disciplinary offence has the right to examine the materials of the disciplinary charge. The materials of a disciplinary charge brought against an assistant prosecutor may also be examined by his or her supervising prosecutor.
(1) The disciplinary committee shall consider a disciplinary offence in a closed session.
(2) The disciplinary committee has the capacity to exercise will if at least three members of the disciplinary committee, including the chairman, participate in the session.
(3) The chairman of the disciplinary committee shall chair sessions of the disciplinary committee.
(4) A member of the disciplinary committee cannot participate in the consideration of the disciplinary charge brought against him or her.
(1) By a decision of the disciplinary committee, a proposal to impose or not to impose a disciplinary penalty shall be made to the minister responsible for the area or the Prosecutor General, or the disciplinary proceeding shall be terminated if there was no disciplinary offence.
(2) The disciplinary committee shall make a decision by a simple majority of the members of the disciplinary committee participating in the session. If the votes are divided equally, the chairman of the disciplinary committee shall cast the deciding vote.
(1) In the case specified in subsection 32 (3) of this Act, the minister responsible for the area shall impose a disciplinary penalty or decide not to impose a disciplinary penalty or terminate the disciplinary proceeding if there was no disciplinary offence. In the case of a decision to release the Prosecutor General from service as a disciplinary penalty, the minister responsible for the area shall make such proposal to the Government of the Republic and shall not impose a disciplinary penalty himself or herself.
(2) The minister responsible for the area shall make the decision alone.
2) the Prosecutor General on the proposal of the prosecutors' disciplinary committee on all prosecutors.
(2) The Prosecutor General does not have the right to impose release from the service as a penalty to prosecutors appointed to office by the minister responsible for the area.
(3) The imposition of disciplinary penalties or the making of the proposal specified in subsection 41 (2) of this Act shall take place within one month after making of the decision.
(4) The Government of the Republic shall decide the release of the Prosecutor General from service as a disciplinary penalty on the proposal of the minister responsible for the area within one month after considering the opinion of the Legal Affairs Committee of the Riigikogu.
(5) Imposing of a disciplinary penalty may be contested in an administrative court.
(1) The prosecutors' competition committee shall evaluate persons applying for the position of prosecutor if the position is filled by way of a public competition.
(2) The prosecutors' competition committee shall comprise the Prosecutor General, one prosecutor from the Office of the Prosecutor General, two prosecutors from district prosecutor's offices, one judge elected by the Court en banc, a jurist designated by the Dean of the Law Faculty of the University of Tartu and an official of the Ministry of Justice designated by the minister responsible for the area. The term of authority of the members of the prosecutors' competition committee, excluding the Prosecutor General and an official of the Ministry of Justice, shall be three years.
(3) The Prosecutor General shall be the chairman of the prosecutors' competition committee.
(4) The prosecutors' competition committee has a quorum if at least five members of the committee, including the chairman, participate in the session.
(5) The Office of the Prosecutor General shall manage the operations of the prosecutors' competition committee.
The minister responsible for the area shall establish the requirements for organisation of competition.
A performance assessment interview is held by a prosecutor's direct superior with a prosecutor immediately subordinate to him or her on the bases and pursuant to the procedure provided for in the Public Service Act.
A prosecutor may be released from service at his or her own request.
A prosecutor may be released from service when he or she attains 65 years of age.
A prosecutor shall be released from service if he or she is declared bankrupt.
A prosecutor shall be released from service for a disciplinary offence pursuant to the procedure provided for in Division 5 of this Act.
(1) Upon expiry of the term of office of the Prosecutor General or a chief prosecutor, the minister responsible for the area shall release him or her from office and appoint him or her as a state prosecutor, specialised prosecutor or district prosecutor without a public competition.
(2) The Prosecutor General and chief prosecutors may be reappointed to office for a new term of office.
(3) The Prosecutor General and chief prosecutors may be appointed to a position provided for in subsection (1) of this section or reappointed to office, with their written consent.
(4) If the Prosecutor General or a chief prosecutor does not consent to be appointed to a position provided for in subsection (1) of this section or if there is no vacant position, he or she shall be released from service.
(1) The Prosecutor General may appoint a prosecutor, with his or her consent, to a position on the staff of the Office of the Prosecutor General in order to perform the duties relating to international judicial cooperation.
(2) After hearing the opinion of the Prosecutor General, a Prosecutor may be transferred, with his or her consent, to the Supreme Court or appointed him without competition to a position on the staff of the Ministry of Justice for performance of the duties of administration of prosecutor's offices or duties relating to international judicial cooperation.
(3) Upon appointing a prosecutor to a position on the staff of the Ministry of Justice, the Supreme Court or the Office of Prosecutor General, the Prosecutor shall retain the benefits related to office prescribed in his or her current position.
(4) A Prosecutor who has been employed in the Ministry of Justice, the Supreme Court or the Office of Prosecutor General on the bases specified in subsection (1) or (2) of this section has the right to return to his or her previous position without public competition by giving at least one month’s advance notice.
(5) The period of service in the Ministry of Justice, the Supreme Court or the Office of the Prosecutor General shall be included in the period of service of a prosecutor in the previous position.
If a prosecutor is elected or employed as a teacher of an institution of applied higher education for public defence, the service relationship of the prosecutor in his or her position shall be suspended for the time of employment as a teacher. The time of employment as a teacher shall be included the period of service in the previous position. If the time of employment as a teacher is terminated, the prosecutor has the right to return to his or her previous position.
(1) With the consent of the Prosecutor General, a prosecutor may be employed by an international organisation in a position relating to international judicial cooperation or administration of justice and participate as an expert in an international civil mission. The service relationship of the prosecutor in his or her position shall be suspended for the time of employment in an international organisation and participation in an international civil mission.
(2) Within four years after suspension of a service relationship, a prosecutor has the right to return to his or her previous position without a public competition.
(3) The period of service in an international organisation and participation in an international civil mission shall be included in the period of service of a prosecutor in the previous position.
5) a prosecutor-designate as an assistant prosecutor.
(2) Assistant prosecutors appointed to office pursuant to clause (1) 4) of this section are not required to undergo a clerkship or probationary period. Assistant prosecutors appointed to office pursuant to clause (1) 5) of this section shall undergo a clerkship. The period of employment as a prosecutor-designate shall be included in the clerkship period.
(3) The Government of the Republic shall appoint the Prosecutor General to office on the proposal of the minister responsible for the area within one month after the entry into force of this Act. Until the appointment of the Prosecutor General to office, his or her duties shall be performed by the state prosecutor or acting state prosecutor who is in office on the date of entry into force of this Act.
(4) The minister responsible for the area shall appoint state prosecutors to office on the basis of a public competition on the proposal of the evaluation committee within one year after the entry into force of this Act. Until the appointment of state prosecutors to office, the duties of state prosecutors shall be performed by the prosecutors who are in office in the Office of the Prosecutor General on the date of entry into force of this Act.
(5) If a deputy state prosecutor or a prosecutor of the Office of the Prosecutor General who is in office on the date of entry into force of this Act is not appointed as the Prosecutor General or a state prosecutor, the minister responsible for the area shall transfer the prosecutor, with his or her consent, to a vacant position of prosecutor in a county or city prosecutor's office without a public competition. If a prosecutor does not give his or her consent, the minister responsible for the area shall release him or her from service due to redundancy.
(6) The minister responsible for the area shall appoint all the senior county and city prosecutors to office on the proposal of the prosecutors' competition and evaluation committee for the term provided for in subsection 17 (2) of this Act, within one year after the entry into force of this Act. If a current senior county or city prosecutor who was appointed to office pursuant to clause (1) 1) of this section is not appointed as a senior county or city prosecutor, the minister responsible for the area shall transfer the prosecutor, with his or her consent, to a vacant position of prosecutor in a county or city prosecutor's office without a public competition. If a prosecutor does not give his or her consent, the minister responsible for the area shall release him or her from service due to redundancy.
(7) The minister responsible for the area shall appoint prosecutors to vacant positions of prosecutor in county and city prosecutor's offices on the basis of a public competition and on the proposal of the evaluation committee, within one year after the entry into force of this Act.
(8) Subsections 15 (3) to (5) of this Act do not apply to the appointments to office provided for in this section.
(9) The period of service of a prosecutor in a position of prosecutor prior to appointment to office pursuant to this section shall be included in his or her period of service in the new position within the meaning of § 15 of this Act.
(1) County or city senior prosecutors appointed to office prior to 1 March 2004 shall be appointed by the Prosecutor General, upon expiry of their term of office, as senior prosecutors, specialised prosecutors or district prosecutors.
(2) County or city prosecutors appointed to office prior to 1 March 2004 shall be appointed by the Prosecutor General as district prosecutors.
The Prosecutor General shall appoint assistant prosecutors [ prokuröri abi ] appointed to office before 1 April 2015 to office as assistant prosecutors [ abiprokurör ], if the person met the requirements established for assistant prosecutors at the time of his or her appointment to office.
(1) A state prosecutor or acting state prosecutor specified in the second sentence of subsection 53 (3) of this Act shall receive the salary of the Prosecutor General during the time he or she performs the duties of the Prosecutor General.
(2) A deputy state prosecutor specified in the second sentence of subsection 53 (4) of this Act shall receive the salary of a prosecutor who directs a department of the Office of the Prosecutor General during the time he or she performs the duties of a state prosecutor.
(3) The salary of a prosecutor of the Office of the Prosecutor General specified in the second sentence of subsection 53 (4) of this Act during the time he or she performs the duties of a state prosecutor shall be the salary rate specified in subsection 22 (1) multiplied by 1.15.
(1) If a prosecutor's basic salary together with individual additional remuneration calculated on the basis of the salary conditions in force for the prosecutor's office as of 1 March 2004 is lower than his or her former salary, including additional remuneration paid for years of service, academic degree, proficiency in foreign languages and processing state secrets or classified media, the prosecutor shall be compensated for the difference in wages by way of additional payments to be made during one year after the transfer of the prosecutor's office to the new salary conditions.
(2) The additional payments provided in subsection (1) of this section shall be made unless the prosecutor is transferred to another position with a different level of complexity.
(1) The Prosecutor General shall convene the first Prosecutors' Assembly within one month after appointment to office.
(2) The first Prosecutors' Assembly shall elect the members of the prosecutors' competition committee and of the disciplinary committee from among the prosecutors.
(3) As long as the representative body of judges has not elected a member of the prosecutors' competition committee or the disciplinary committee from among the judges, the Board of the Association of Judges shall do so.
(4) The member of the disciplinary committee and the member of the prosecutors' competition committee who are state prosecutors shall be elected after the appointment of state prosecutors to office.
Persons who have completed an academic higher education in law in a university in private law may be appointed as prosecutors if they have completed such higher education on the basis of an accredited curriculum.
(1) Within two years after 1 March 2004, senior prosecutors shall be appointed for office for a term of three years.
(2) Senior prosecutors appointed to office pursuant to the procedure provided in subsection (1) of this section shall be appointed by the Prosecutor General, upon expiry of their term of office, as senior prosecutors, district prosecutors or specialised prosecutors.
(1) Within ten years after the entry into force of this Act, the Government of the Republic may increase the salary of prosecutors employed in some regions by up to one quarter.
(2) As of 1 March 2009 until 31 December 2010, the salary of a prosecutor may be determined for a term shorter than one year and the salary determined may be lower than the salary of the previous period.
Assistant prosecutors shall continue to have an annual holiday of 42 calendar days and other prosecutors an annual holiday of 49 calendar days for two years as of 1 April 2013 in the case they are in service as at 1 April 2013 either as assistant prosecutors or other prosecutors.
(1) Sections 25 and 26 of this Act apply in respect of persons who are employed as prosecutors on the date of entry into force of this Act or after the entry into force of this Act.
(2) The period of employment as a preliminary investigator of a prosecutor's office shall be included in the period of employment as a prosecutor.
(3) The first sentence of subsection 25 (6) of this Act applies to persons whose right to receive a prosecutor's old-age pension arises as of 1 July 2006.
(1) Any person who is a prosecutor as at 1 July 2016 and whose length of service as a prosecutor is at least 15 years and who has been established to have partial or no work ability during his or her employment as a prosecutor and who has no right to allowance on the basis of subsection 49 (6) or (7) of the Public Service Act is entitled to prosecutors' monthly work ability allowance.
2) in the case of no work ability 65% of the minimum salary rate established by a regulation of the Government of the Republic corresponding to the prosecutor's most recent position without considering the increase of the salary rate due to working in a specific area.
(3) Prosecutors' work ability allowances, except for allowances calculated on the basis of the salary rate of the current year, shall be indexed each year by 1 April by the pension index approved by the Government of the Republic on the basis of § 26 of the State Pension Insurance Act.
(4) After the expiry of the term of partial or no work ability, payment of the prosecutors' work ability allowance shall be continued without assessment of work ability.
(5) Prosecutors have the right to choose between payment of work ability allowance on the basis of this Act or work ability allowance on the basis of the Work Ability Allowance Act.
(6) Prosecutors' work ability allowance shall be paid from the state budget through the budget of the Ministry of Justice.
(1) A prosecutor who has been established to have a permanent loss of work ability on the basis of the State Pension Insurance Act before 1 July 2016 shall be entitled to apply for a pension for incapacity for work, which shall be determined on the basis of § 26 of the version of this Act in force until 1 July 2016.
(2) A prosecutor who receives a pension for incapacity for work on the basis of § 26 of the version of the Prosecutor's Office Act in force until 1 July 2016 shall continue to receive, after the expiry of the term of permanent incapacity for work determined by an examination for establishing permanent incapacity for work, the pension for incapacity for work in the former amount without assessment of work ability.
(3) When a person receiving a prosecutor's pension for incapacity for work attains the pensionable age provided for in § 7 of the State Pension Insurance Act, payment of the old-age pension shall continue, at his or her request, in the amount of the previous pension for incapacity for work.
(4) Prosecutors' person for incapacity for work and prosecutor's old-age pension in the amount of pension for incapacity for work, except for pension calculated on the basis of the salary rate of the current year, shall be indexed each year by 1 April by the pension index approved by the Government of the Republic on the basis of § 26 of the State Pension Insurance Act.
(5) Prosecutors' pension for incapacity for work shall be paid from the state budget through the budget of the Ministry of Justice.
Until 31 December 2000, persons applying for the position of prosecutor who have not yet taken an oath shall take a written oath.
(1) This Act enters into force on the day following publication in the Riigi Teataja.
(3) Prosecutors of the county and city prosecutor's offices shall begin to perform the duties which before the entry into force of this Act were performed by the prosecutors who were employed by the Office of the Prosecutor General, within one year after the entry into force of this Act.

References: § 48
 § 15
 § 26
 § 26
 § 26
 § 7
 § 26