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Self-employed persons have to register themselves in the commercial register during 2009
22. December 08
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In the interest of openness of business data all self-employed persons are required to register themselves in an open commercial register during 2009.


Punishments for traitors will become more severe
22. January 09
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Today the Government approved a draft legislation with which the punishments for several offences against the Republic of Estonia will be made more severe.


Report of the Committee of Experts formed for the investigation of circumstances related to the transport of equipment for military use on the passenger ferry Estonia in September 1994
20. February 09
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Finnish ID Card Used for the First Time to Create a Company in Estonian e-Commercial Register
13. May 09
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This week, the first company in Estonian business history was created in the Company Registration Portal with a Finnish ID card, without the founders of the company having had to leave their desks to get the company officially registered in Estonia.


Cyber-crime investigators from 13 countries received training at FBI’s high-level conference
15. May 09
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Top-level specialists of the Cyber-Crime Prevention Unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted a high-level conference about the technical investigation of cyber-crime in Tallinn, in cooperation with the Estonian Ministry of Justice and the Estonian Forensic Science Institute (EKEI).

Convict of the Yugoslavian tribunal brought into Estonia to serve punishment
26. June 09
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Today, a convoy of the Prison Service brought Milan Martić into the country. Milan Martić was the last president of the unrecognised Republic of Serbian Krajina, convicted with a judgement of the International Criminal Tribunal of the former Yugoslavia.

Crime in Estonia decreased by 5 percent
12. January 10
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On the 12th of January, a summary of crime statistics 2009 was introduced at the Ministry of Justice according to which the number of criminal offences registered in Estonia has decreased by 5.1 percent.

Estonian company registration portal is the fastest in the world
12. November 09
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A World Record was made by the fastest establishing of an enterprise via Internet, using the e-Commercial Register Company Registration Portal of the Centre of Registries and Information Systems of the Estonian Ministry of Justice.

Estonian e-solutions reached the finals of European e-Government Awards
06. November 09
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Cross-border digital signature and Digital Land Register that have been developed in the Centre of Registers and Information Systems of the Ministry of Justice reached the final of the European eGovernment Awards.