The Estonia Productive Capacity Authority and Energy Security Act

              RIIGIKOGU OF THE REPUBLIC OF ESTONIA
                  Eesti Vabariigi Riigikogu
                  XV Riigikogu / 2026 Session

                  SEADUSEELNOU / DRAFT ACT

ESITASID ________ (Riigikogu liikmed) INTRODUCED BY ________ (Members of the Riigikogu)

EESTI TOOTMISVOIMSUSE ASUTUSE JA ENERGIAJULGEOLEKU KOHTA

CONCERNING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ESTONIAN PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY AUTHORITY AND THE PROVISION OF ENERGY SECURITY

                  SEADUS / AN ACT

LONG TITLE / PIKK PEALKIRI

EESTI VABARIIGI SEADUS TOOTMISVOIMSUSE ASUTUSE JA ENERGIAJULGEOLEKU TAGAMISE KOHTA

AN ACT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ESTONIA concerning the establishment of the Estonian Productive Capacity Authority (Eesti tootmisvoimsuse asutus, "ETVA") as a state foundation (sihtasutus) directly under the Ministry of Finance (Rahandusministeerium), modelled on the SA KredEx foundation structure; the establishment of the Civic Robot Corps of Estonia (Eesti kodaniku robotikorpus, "EKRK") as a public-good labour body; the conferral of a Personal Productive Asset entitlement (Isiklik tootmisvara oigus) on every Estonian citizen ordinarily resident in the Republic, identified by isikukood, distributed through SA Sotsiaalkindlustusamet (SKA), the Eesti.ee government services portal, and the X-Road interoperability backbone; fifteen County Delivery Units (maakondlikud tarneuksused) corresponding to the fifteen Estonian counties; ENERGY SECURITY elevated as a co-equal Title coordinating with Elering AS, Eesti Energia AS, Fermi Energia, the 9 February 2025 Baltic Synchro Continental Europe Synchronous Area integration, the Eesti Energia oil-shale phase-out (2035 electricity / 2040 all energy), the Fermi Energia BWRX-300 SMR national planning process and Aecon teaming agreement (16 September 2025), the Latvia-Estonia ELWIND offshore-wind joint project, and the Ida-Viru Just Transition Plan workforce-absorption coordination; coordination with SA KredEx, SmartCap, and EAS for credit guarantees and equity co-investment; coordination with the Eesti taastekava (Estonian Recovery and Resilience Plan, EUR 953 million RRF allocation); explicit declination to establish any new Estonian personal income tax, corporate income tax, value added tax, excise duty, land tax, or other Estonian tax of any kind for the funding of the Authority; explicit preservation of Eesti Pank, KredEx (beyond authorised coordination), Eesti Energia, Elering, Fermi Energia, and all other existing Estonian institutions; consistency with the Eesti Vabariigi pohiseadus (1992), particularly Article 10, Article 28, Article 31, and Article 53; consistency with the philosophical heritage of Lennart Meri, the Singing Revolution, the Baltic Way, the Tartu Peace Treaty, and the Laulupidu cooperative-cultural tradition; and provision for connected purposes.

LEGISLATIVE ROUTING NOTE

This Draft Act (Seaduseelnou) is for introduction in the Riigikogu of the Republic of Estonia during the XV Riigikogu, 2026 Session.

Suggested committee referrals following First Reading:

- Rahanduskomisjon (Finance Committee): lead committee for fiscal provisions and KredEx-SmartCap-EAS coordination - Majanduskomisjon (Economic Affairs Committee): for productive-capacity provisions and Eesti Energia coordination - Keskkonnakomisjon (Environment Committee): for the Energy Security Title and the oil-shale just-transition - Riigikaitsekomisjon (National Defence Committee): for the NATO eastern-frontier and strategic-reserves provisions - Sotsiaalkomisjon (Social Affairs Committee): for the Personal Productive Asset entitlement and SKA coordination - Euroopa Liidu asjade komisjon (European Affairs Committee): for Eesti taastekava coordination - Pohiseaduskomisjon (Constitutional Committee): for constitutional-consistency review (Article 31 entrepreneurial freedom)

Funding Architecture: Four load-bearing channels: (a) State-budget annual appropriation starting with EUR 100

    million for FY2027;

(b) KredEx + SmartCap-coordinated credit guarantees and

    equity co-investment up to EUR 400 million cumulative
    outstanding (Article 12);

(c) Eesti taastekava coordination where consistent with

    existing Estonian RRP investment and reform lines
    (Article 13);

(d) Operating revenue from at-cost sales of goods produced

    by the Authority and the Civic Robot Corps of Estonia.

No new Estonian taxation is established by this Act.

TITLE I - SHORT TITLE, FINDINGS, DECLARATIONS

ARTICLE 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the "Estonia Productive Capacity Authority and Energy Security Act 2026" (Eesti tootmisvoimsuse asutuse ja energiajulgeoleku seadus 2026).

ARTICLE 2. FINDINGS.

The Riigikogu finds:

FINDING 1 - ESTONIA OPERATES WITHOUT A SINGLE-CHASSIS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BANK. Latvia operates Altum and Lithuania operates ILTE as full national development banks. Estonia has historically relied on a foundation-based model: SA KredEx (founded 2001) for credit guarantees, SmartCap for state venture capital, and EAS for business and innovation promotion. SDE (Sotsiaaldemokraatlik Erakond) formally proposed creating a full national development bank in 2024 (news.err.ee/1609983480); as of 2025-2026 the institution has not been established. This Act closes that institutional gap on the indigenous KredEx state-foundation chassis, establishing the Authority as a state foundation (sihtasutus) under the Ministry of Finance.

FINDING 2 - BALTIC SYNCHRO ESTABLISHED ESTONIAN ENERGY SOVEREIGNTY. On 9 February 2025 at 14:05 EET, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania jointly disconnected from the IPS/UPS Soviet-era electricity grid and the 2001 BRELL Agreement under Moscow's centralised dispatch, and synchronised with the Continental Europe Synchronous Area (CESA) managed by ENTSO-E (entsoe.eu 9 February 2025 confirmation). Elering AS led the Estonian side. The Baltic Synchro is the largest single-event reorientation of national-grid governance in post-1991 Estonian history. Energy security is now anchored on European solidarity rather than Russian-controlled dispatch. This Act elevates Energy Security as a co-equal Title of the Authority's mandate to consolidate and extend the strategic gains of the Baltic Synchro.

FINDING 3 - EESTI ENERGIA OIL-SHALE PHASE-OUT AND IDA-VIRU JUST TRANSITION. Eesti Energia AS has committed to phase out oil-shale-fired electricity generation by 2035 and all oil-shale energy use by 2040 (news.err.ee/1609517854; enefit.ee 2025 annual; briefglance.com 11 February 2026). The Narva oil-shale power complex is being wound down. Ida-Viru County (population 130,362 as of 1 January 2024, approximately 10 percent of Estonia) hosts the affected workforce: the oil-shale sector represents approximately 5 percent of Estonian GDP and approximately 2.5 percent of Estonian total employment. The Just Transition Plan for Ida-Viru, approved by the European Commission and funded under the EU Just Transition Fund, targets 1,100 direct green-industry jobs and the reskilling of 11,000 oil-shale workers. The Authority shall coordinate with the Just Transition Plan framework for priority workforce absorption of displaced oil-shale workers into the Civic Robot Corps of Estonia.

FINDING 4 - FERMI ENERGIA BWRX-300 SMR NATIONAL PLANNING PROCESS. Fermi Energia, the Estonian nuclear developer, has formally begun the national planning process and environmental impact assessment for a two-unit GE Hitachi BWRX-300 small modular reactor plant, 600 MW combined capacity (world-nuclear-news.org May 2025). On 16 September 2025 Fermi Energia signed a teaming agreement with Aecon (Canada) establishing Aecon as exclusive provider for domestic nuclear- construction capability development during the SMR development phase (world-nuclear-news.org 16 September 2025). The Authority shall coordinate with Fermi Energia and with the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications on Civic Robot Corps deployment-support services through the SMR development phase and any subsequent deployment-phase work.

FINDING 5 - EESTI TAASTEKAVA FUNDING IN DEPLOYMENT. The Estonian Recovery and Resilience Plan has been approved with a total EUR 953 million RRF allocation under the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility (updated plan; EUR 969.3 million originally approved). Approximately EUR 1.42 billion total NextGenerationEU grants and approximately EUR 3.37 billion as grants from the EU 2021-2027 long-term budget supplement the RRF allocation. The Authority coordinates with the existing Eesti taastekava framework where consistent with approved Estonian investment and reform lines.

FINDING 6 - REPLICATION THRESHOLD AND ESTONIAN ENGINEERING CAPACITY. Self-replicating humanoid robotic manufacturing technology arrived at sub-USD-30,000 unit cost during the Q4 2025 through Q2 2026 inflection window per Universal Foundational Citation A (Casey Handmer replication-threshold canon; Unitree R1, Unitree G1, Apptronik Apollo, Agility Robotics Digit, Boston Dynamics Atlas, Tesla Optimus, Figure 02 ecosystem). Estonia hosts engineering capacity at the University of Tartu (founded 1632, the oldest university in Estonia), Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), the Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tallinn University, and the Estonian Academy of Arts. Estonian information-technology and digital-state engineering capacity is internationally recognised. Estonia is positioned to deploy replication- threshold technology under Estonian productive-capacity infrastructure rather than to import the goods the technology will produce.

FINDING 7 - HIERARCHY ITSELF KILLS (MARMOT QUARTET). Universal Foundational Citation C identifies the stress-physiology pathway by which basic-needs stratification produces population health damage: Marmot Whitehall, Sapolsky Serengeti baboons, Shively cynomolgus macaques, Blackburn telomere research. Four research programmes, six decades, three species. The gap is the gradient, not the deprivation. Hierarchy itself kills. Estonia's documented Tallinn-metropolitan vs Ida-Viru-rural health gradient follows the same Marmot-quartet pattern. The Authority's universal Personal Productive Asset entitlement removes the stratification at the layer at which the Marmot quartet finds most aggressive health-pathway damage, consistent with Article 28 of the Constitution.

FINDING 8 - SINGING REVOLUTION AND BALTIC WAY ANCHOR COLLECTIVE CIVIC CAPACITY. The Singing Revolution (Laulev revolutsioon, 1987-1991), in which Estonian civilians built the non-violent national-liberation movement through mass-singing of forbidden Estonian songs at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds, established the living national-memory principle that Estonian sovereignty is defended by Estonian citizens collectively. The Baltic Way of 23 August 1989 (Balti kett), a 675-kilometre human chain joining Vilnius, Riga, and Tallinn through approximately two million Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian citizens, demonstrated Baltic collective civic capacity at population scale. The Personal Productive Asset entitlement under this Act is the modern operational expression of the principle that the Republic is the common endeavour of its citizens.

FINDING 9 - LAULUPIDU AND ESTONIAN COOPERATIVE TRADITION. The Estonian Song Festival (Laulupidu), continuous since 1869, inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (jointly with the Latvian and Lithuanian song-festival traditions), mobilises tens of thousands of Estonian singers from every county. The Civic Robot Corps of Estonia inherits the operational precedent of the Laulupidu cooperative tradition: structured citizen mobilisation at population scale, sustained across generations.

FINDING 10 - LENNART MERI AND ESTONIAN INSTITUTIONAL MEMORY. Lennart Meri (1929-2006), first post-restoration President of the Republic (1992-2001), author and filmmaker, established the intellectual anchor of the restored Republic. The Tartu Peace Treaty (2 February 1920) was the first treaty signed by the new Soviet state with a foreign power, recognising Estonian independence. The Authority rests on the principle that Estonian collective capacity, demonstrated by the Tartu Peace Treaty, the Lennart Meri presidency, the Singing Revolution, and the Baltic Way, is fully sufficient to operate productive-capacity infrastructure at the scale Estonia requires.

FINDING 11 - X-ROAD AS LOAD-BEARING DIGITAL-STATE BACKBONE. The Estonian X-Road (X-tee) interoperability backbone, operational since 2001, is Estonia's signature contribution to global digital governance. Twenty-plus countries have adopted or adapted the X-Road open-source codebase. The Personal Productive Asset entitlement and the Authority's distribution operations under this Act run on the X-Road backbone, the isikukood identifier, the Eesti.ee portal, and the SA Sotsiaalkindlustusamet pension infrastructure. This Act adds no new digital-state infrastructure; it uses what Estonia has built and exported to the world.

ARTICLE 3. DECLARATIONS.

DECLARATION 1 - PERSONAL PRODUCTIVE ASSET ENTITLEMENT. The Riigikogu declares that every Estonian citizen ordinarily resident in the Republic of Estonia, identified by isikukood, shall enjoy as a matter of statutory right under this Act a Personal Productive Asset entitlement (Isiklik tootmisvara oigus) consisting of one non-transferable Productive Capacity Share, the annual distribution of dividends from inter-county pooled productive-capacity revenue, and access to at-cost basic-needs goods produced by the Civic Robot Corps of Estonia.

DECLARATION 2 - EXISTING ESTONIAN INSTITUTIONS UNAFFECTED. Nothing in this Act affects the establishment, functions, governance, or operation of:

(a) Eesti Pank (the central bank within the Eurosystem); (b) SA KredEx, SmartCap, and EAS, beyond the coordination

    expressly authorised by Article 12;

(c) Eesti Energia AS, Elering AS, Fermi Energia, VKG, and

    other state-owned or state-controlled enterprises
    (beyond Title V and Title VI coordination);

(d) SA Sotsiaalkindlustusamet (SKA), Maksu- ja Tolliamet

    (MTA), PRIA, RIA, and other state agencies, beyond the
    coordination expressly authorised by this Act;

(e) The Eesti taastekava Recovery and Resilience Plan,

    beyond the coordination expressly authorised by
    Article 13;

(f) Estonian consumer and agricultural cooperatives, and

    the historical Estonian cooperative tradition;

(g) Eesti Toidupank and Eesti Punase Risti Selts; (h) The Riigikogu, the Government of the Republic (Vabariigi

    Valitsus), the President of the Republic, the Supreme
    Court (Riigikohus), the Chancellor of Justice
    (Oiguskantsler), and the Constitution.

DECLARATION 3 - NO NEW ESTONIAN TAXATION. No new Estonian tulumaks (personal income tax), ettevotte tulumaks (corporate income tax), kaibemaks (value added tax), aktsiis (excise duty), maamaks (land tax), or other Estonian tax of any kind is established, extended, or increased by this Act.

DECLARATION 4 - MUNICIPAL AND COUNTY AUTONOMY RESPECTED. Nothing in this Act diminishes the constitutional and statutory autonomy of the 79 Estonian municipalities or the 15 Estonian counties. The County Delivery Units under Title IV operate in coordination with, not in displacement of, municipal and county structures.

DECLARATION 5 - ENTREPRENEURIAL FREEDOM PRESERVED. Consistent with Article 31 of the Constitution, this Act preserves the Estonian commercial market in full. The Authority operates as a state foundation that contracts with private producers and distributors; it does not establish state ownership of the means of production. The Estonian private market for premium, luxury, custom, and specialty goods continues without restriction.

TITLE II - ESTABLISHMENT OF THE AUTHORITY

ARTICLE 4. ESTABLISHMENT.

(1) There is hereby established the Estonian Productive

    Capacity Authority (Eesti tootmisvoimsuse asutus,
    "ETVA" or "the Authority") as a state foundation
    (sihtasutus) directly under the Ministry of Finance
    (Rahandusministeerium), modelled on the SA KredEx
    foundation structure (founded 2001) and the framework
    of the Foundations Act (Sihtasutuste seadus) of the
    Republic of Estonia.

(2) The State of Estonia, represented by the Government of

    the Republic, is the sole founder. The Minister of
    Finance exercises the founder's rights on behalf of the
    State.

ARTICLE 5. SUPERVISORY BOARD (NOUKOGU).

(1) The Authority is supervised by a Supervisory Board

    (Noukogu) of eleven members.

(2) Members include:

    (a) The Chair, appointed by the Government on the
        proposal of the Prime Minister, confirmed by the
        Riigikogu;
    (b) The Minister of Finance, ex officio;
    (c) The Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications,
        ex officio;
    (d) The Minister of Climate, ex officio;
    (e) The Minister of Social Affairs, ex officio;
    (f) One member designated by the SA KredEx Supervisory
        Board, as the standing interface between the
        Authority and KredEx;
    (g) One member designated by Eesti Energia AS as the
        standing energy-sector interface;
    (h) Three members representing the Estonian cooperative
        sector, the Estonian Trade Union Confederation
        (Eesti Ametiuhingute Keskliit, EAKL), and the
        Estonian Employers' Confederation (Eesti Tooandjate
        Keskliit, ETKL);
    (i) One member representing Estonian civil society and
        the academic community (University of Tartu / Tallinn
        University of Technology / Estonian University of
        Life Sciences).

ARTICLE 6. MANAGEMENT BOARD (JUHATUS).

(1) The Authority is managed by a Management Board (Juhatus)

    of five members, appointed and recalled by the
    Supervisory Board.

(2) The Board includes a Chairman (Juhatuse esimees), a

    Vice-Chairman for Productive Capacity, a Vice-Chairman
    for Energy Security and Baltic Synchro Coordination, a
    Vice-Chairman for County Delivery and Civic Robot Corps
    Operations, and a Vice-Chairman for Finance and KredEx
    Coordination.

ARTICLE 7. POWERS OF THE AUTHORITY.

The Authority has the power to:

(a) Establish, capitalise, and govern fifteen County

    Delivery Units (maakondlikud tarneuksused) under
    Article 17;

(b) Issue Productive Capacity Shares under Article 14; (c) Acquire, hold, manage, lease, sell, and dispose of

    property including replication-threshold robotic
    manufacturing equipment;

(d) Enter contracts with the Government, ministries, KredEx,

    SmartCap, EAS, Eesti Energia, Elering, Fermi Energia,
    Estonian municipalities, Estonian cooperatives, the
    European Commission Eesti taastekava coordination, and
    private vendors;

(e) Coordinate with SA KredEx and SmartCap under Article 12

    for credit guarantees and equity co-investment up to
    EUR 400 million cumulative outstanding;

(f) Coordinate with the Eesti taastekava under Article 13; (g) Distribute Productive Capacity Dividends under Article

    15 through the existing SA Sotsiaalkindlustusamet,
    Eesti.ee, and X-Road infrastructure;

(h) Charter the Civic Robot Corps of Estonia (Eesti

    kodaniku robotikorpus) under Title V;

(i) Coordinate with Eesti Energia, Elering, Fermi Energia,

    and the Ida-Viru Just Transition framework under
    Title VI;

(j) Issue regulations and rules within the scope of its

    mandate consistent with the Foundations Act.

TITLE III - FUNDING ARCHITECTURE

ARTICLE 8. PRINCIPLES OF FUNDING.

Four load-bearing channels per the Legislative Routing Note; no new Estonian taxation. The Authority's funding architecture explicitly resolves the gradient-related health pathway documented in Universal Foundational Citation C (Marmot quartet) at population scale through universal at-cost commodity assurance.

ARTICLE 9. NO NEW TAXATION.

No new Estonian tulumaks, ettevotte tulumaks, kaibemaks, aktsiis, maamaks, or other Estonian tax of any kind is established by this Act.

ARTICLE 10. INITIAL APPROPRIATION.

(1) For the financial year 2027 there is appropriated from

    the Estonian state budget the sum of EUR 100 million for
    the establishment of the Authority, scaled to the
    Estonian population of approximately 1.37 million on a
    per-capita basis comparable to the Latvian and
    Lithuanian Authority appropriations.

(2) Subsequent annual appropriations shall be made in the

    ordinary annual budget Act.

ARTICLE 11. STATE-FOUNDATION CONTRIBUTION.

The State of Estonia provides the entirety of the founder's contribution of EUR 100 million per Article 10. The Authority operates as a state foundation (sihtasutus) per the Foundations Act; founder's contributions and surpluses are retained for the statutory mandate.

ARTICLE 12. SA KREDEX AND SMARTCAP COORDINATION.

(1) The Authority and SA KredEx shall enter a Coordination

    Agreement (Koostooleping) within twelve months of the
    establishment of the Authority, providing for KredEx
    credit guarantees, KredEx housing-loan-equivalent
    infrastructure financing, SmartCap equity co-investment,
    and EAS business-incubation services for Authority-
    operated productive-capacity facilities up to a
    cumulative outstanding principal of EUR 400 million.

(2) Coordination shall be consistent with the existing

    KredEx mandate under Estonian state-foundation law and
    with KredEx and SmartCap operational strategies.

(3) The Authority does not direct, control, or modify

    KredEx, SmartCap, or EAS operations. The 2024 SDE
    proposal for a full Estonian national development bank
    is not displaced by this Act; that institutional
    expansion remains a separate Riigikogu question.

ARTICLE 13. EESTI TAASTEKAVA COORDINATION.

(1) The Authority may receive co-financing from the Eesti

    taastekava (Estonian Recovery and Resilience Plan,
    EUR 953 million RRF allocation; EUR 1.42 billion total
    NextGenerationEU grants; EUR 3.37 billion EU 2021-2027
    long-term-budget grants) where consistent with the
    approved Estonian investment and reform lines.

(2) The Authority does not displace any existing Eesti

    taastekava investment or reform line.

ARTICLE 14. PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY SHARES.

(1) The Authority shall issue Productive Capacity Shares

    (Tootmisvoimsuse aktsiad) as follows:

    (a) ONE Productive Capacity Share to every Estonian
        citizen ordinarily resident in the Republic of
        Estonia on the effective date of this Act,
        identified by isikukood;

    (b) ONE Productive Capacity Share to every person born
        thereafter to an ordinarily-resident parent, upon
        birth registration;

    (c) ONE Productive Capacity Share to every person
        acquiring ordinary residence in the Republic of
        Estonia thereafter and obtaining an isikukood, upon
        completion of a one-year ordinary-residence period.

(2) Productive Capacity Shares are non-transferable.

(3) A Share may be inherited by an ordinarily-resident

    Estonian citizen through ordinary inheritance law.

(4) ONE PERSON, ONE SHARE.

ARTICLE 15. ANNUAL DISTRIBUTION.

(1) Seventy per cent (70 percent) of all productive-capacity

    revenue received by each County Delivery Unit under
    Title IV shall be remitted to the Authority for
    inter-county pooling. Each County Delivery Unit retains
    the remaining thirty per cent (30 percent) for
    county-level operations.

(2) Seventy-five per cent (75 percent) of the inter-county

    pool shall be distributed annually to Productive Capacity
    Shareholders, equally per share, through the existing
    SA Sotsiaalkindlustusamet, Eesti.ee, and X-Road
    infrastructure.

(3) The remaining twenty-five per cent (25 percent) is

    retained by the Authority for operating reserves,
    KredEx-coordinated debt repayment, and expansion
    capital.

(4) The annual distribution shall be made on a date

    determined by the Authority with a target date of
    24 February (Iseseisvuspaev, Estonian Independence Day,
    commemorating the 1918 Declaration of Independence) in
    each year, symbolically connecting the Personal
    Productive Asset entitlement to Estonian constitutional
    sovereignty.

TITLE IV - FIFTEEN COUNTY DELIVERY UNITS

ARTICLE 16. FIFTEEN COUNTY DELIVERY UNITS.

(1) The Authority establishes fifteen County Delivery Units

    (maakondlikud tarneuksused, "MTU") corresponding to the
    fifteen Estonian counties (maakonnad):

    (a) MTU Harju (Harjumaa, capital county, includes
        Tallinn);
    (b) MTU Hiiu (Hiiumaa, Baltic island county);
    (c) MTU Ida-Viru (Ida-Virumaa, Russian-frontier county,
        oil-shale just-transition priority);
    (d) MTU Jogeva (Jogevamaa);
    (e) MTU Jarva (Jarvamaa);
    (f) MTU Laane (Laanemaa);
    (g) MTU Laane-Viru (Laane-Virumaa);
    (h) MTU Polva (Polvamaa);
    (i) MTU Parnu (Parnumaa);
    (j) MTU Rapla (Raplamaa);
    (k) MTU Saare (Saaremaa, Baltic island county);
    (l) MTU Tartu (Tartumaa, includes the University of
        Tartu);
    (m) MTU Valga (Valgamaa);
    (n) MTU Viljandi (Viljandimaa);
    (o) MTU Voru (Vorumaa, includes the Setomaa
        Russian-Latvian-Estonian tri-border region).

(2) Each MTU is administered by a Director appointed by the

    Authority Board with the advice of the relevant county-
    level administration and the relevant municipal
    leaderships.

(3) Each MTU operates within the framework of the Estonian

    municipalities within the county, coordinated through
    the Association of Estonian Cities and Rural
    Municipalities (Eesti Linnade ja Valdade Liit, ELVL).

TITLE V - CIVIC ROBOT CORPS OF ESTONIA

ARTICLE 17. ESTABLISHMENT.

(1) There is hereby established within the Authority a

    public-good labour body to be known as the "Civic Robot
    Corps of Estonia" (Eesti kodaniku robotikorpus, "EKRK"
    or "the Corps").

(2) The Corps operates replication-threshold robotic

    manufacturing equipment per Universal Foundational
    Citation A for at-cost basic-needs goods production and
    other service lines.

ARTICLE 18. SERVICE LINES.

The Corps shall operate:

(a) At-cost goods production and distribution (coordinating

    with the Food, Resource, and Commodity Assurance
    Programme under the sibling Estonia Food Assurance Act);

(b) Ida-Viru-priority workforce-absorption coordination with

    the Just Transition Plan for Ida-Viru and the EU Just
    Transition Fund for placement of displaced oil-shale
    workers (the Plan targets 11,000 reskilled and 1,100
    direct green-industry jobs);

(c) Coordination with Eesti Energia AS for Corps-operated

    maintenance and modernisation services during the
    oil-shale phase-out (electricity by 2035, all energy by
    2040) and the post-phase-out renewable-portfolio
    deployment;

(d) Coordination with Elering AS for Corps-operated grid-

    deployment and maintenance services in support of the
    post-Baltic-Synchro Estonian transmission grid and the
    CESA integration;

(e) Coordination with Fermi Energia for Corps-operated

    services in support of the BWRX-300 small modular reactor
    national planning process and any subsequent deployment-
    phase work under the Aecon teaming agreement of
    16 September 2025;

(f) Coordination with the Latvia-Estonia ELWIND joint

    offshore-wind project for Corps-operated installation and
    maintenance services for Estonian Baltic Sea offshore-
    wind capacity;

(g) Coordination with PRIA and Estonian agricultural

    cooperatives for Corps-operated value-added processing of
    Estonian-grown agricultural output;

(h) Healthcare-supply-chain logistics coordination with the

    Estonian Health Insurance Fund (Eesti Haigekassa) and
    Estonian hospital networks;

(i) Strategic-reserves coordination with the Estonian Defence

    Forces (Kaitsevagi) and the Estonian Defence League
    (Kaitseliit) given Estonia's NATO eastern-frontier
    position and the Russian-border counties of Ida-Viru and
    Voru (Setomaa);

(j) Coordination with the Laulupidu (Estonian Song Festival)

    infrastructure for cooperative-cultural-capacity
    expansion in Corps service-line operations.

ARTICLE 19. HUMAN WORKFORCE.

(1) The Corps employs a human workforce of Estonian

    ordinarily-resident citizens, with county preference
    and explicit Ida-Viru-county recruitment priority given
    (i) the Russian-frontier strategic-security position,
    (ii) the demographic decline and ageing of Ida-Viru,
    (iii) the 5-percent-of-GDP economic-restructuring shock
    from the Eesti Energia oil-shale phase-out, and (iv) the
    established EU Just Transition Fund framework as a
    recognised coordination chassis.

(2) The Corps shall:

    (a) Maintain a wage floor of 120 percent of the Estonian
        national minimum monthly wage (alampalk);

    (b) Provide social-insurance contributions through SKA
        at the standard employer-side rate;

    (c) Coordinate with Estonian vocational secondary
        education (kutseharidus) and the Estonian university
        sector for apprenticeship pipelines;

    (d) Provide explicit pathways from Corps employment to
        the Estonian civil service (riigiteenistus), to the
        Estonian Defence Forces, to the Estonian Defence
        League, and to state-owned enterprises.

(3) The Corps's automation-displacement context per Universal

    Foundational Citation F (Aurora driverless freight,
    retail-sector restructuring) frames the Corps as the
    structural floor that catches workers when those job
    losses occur, not as a job-eliminating instrument.

TITLE VI - ENERGY SECURITY AND BALTIC SYNCHRO COORDINATION

ARTICLE 20. ENERGY SECURITY AS A CO-EQUAL MANDATE.

The Riigikogu declares that ENERGY SECURITY of the Republic of Estonia is a co-equal Title of the Authority's mandate alongside productive capacity and the Civic Robot Corps. The structural reasons are:

(a) The 9 February 2025 Baltic Synchro disconnection from

    BRELL and synchronisation with the Continental Europe
    Synchronous Area (CESA) consolidated Estonian energy
    sovereignty; sustaining and extending those gains is a
    permanent national priority;

(b) The Eesti Energia oil-shale phase-out commitment

    (electricity by 2035, all energy by 2040) is a generation-
    scale energy transition that requires sustained Corps-
    operated workforce-absorption and modernisation support;

(c) The Fermi Energia BWRX-300 small modular reactor

    national planning process (with the Aecon teaming
    agreement of 16 September 2025) establishes the Estonian
    nuclear-policy trajectory under post-oil-shale
    conditions; the Authority shall coordinate Corps-operated
    services through this transition;

(d) The Latvia-Estonia ELWIND joint offshore-wind project is

    the principal Estonian shared-future-capacity programme;

(e) NATO eastern-frontier security context requires energy

    resilience independent of any Russian-controlled
    infrastructure, including the Russian-border position at
    Narva (Ida-Viru) and the Setomaa tri-border in Voru.

ARTICLE 21. EESTI ENERGIA COORDINATION.

(1) The Authority and Eesti Energia AS shall enter a

    Coordination Agreement within twelve months of the
    Authority's establishment, providing for Corps-operated
    deployment and maintenance services for Eesti Energia's
    renewable-energy portfolio, oil-shale phase-out
    decommissioning at the Narva complex (per the 2035
    electricity and 2040 all-energy timelines), and the
    post-phase-out transition to renewables.

(2) The Authority does not direct, control, or modify Eesti

    Energia operations.

ARTICLE 22. ELERING COORDINATION.

(1) The Authority and Elering AS shall enter a Coordination

    Agreement providing for Corps-operated grid-deployment
    and maintenance services in support of the post-Baltic-
    Synchro Estonian transmission grid and the CESA
    integration.

(2) The Authority does not direct, control, or modify

    Elering operations.

ARTICLE 23. FERMI ENERGIA AND BWRX-300 SMR COORDINATION.

(1) The Authority and Fermi Energia shall enter a

    Coordination Agreement providing for Corps-operated
    services in support of the BWRX-300 small modular reactor
    national planning process, the environmental impact
    assessment, and any subsequent deployment-phase work
    under the Aecon teaming agreement of 16 September 2025.

(2) Coordination shall reflect the more advanced status of

    the Estonian BWRX-300 trajectory relative to the
    Lithuanian assessment-phase MoU (Lithuania's BWRX-300
    activity is currently under a trilateral Altra-SGE-GVH
    assessment-phase Memorandum of Understanding only).
    Estonia's national planning process and EIA are
    operationally further along.

ARTICLE 24. IDA-VIRU JUST TRANSITION COORDINATION.

(1) The Authority shall coordinate with the Just Transition

    Plan for Ida-Viru, with the European Union Just
    Transition Fund administered by the Ministry of Finance,
    and with Ida-Viru County and municipal authorities, for
    workforce-absorption priority of displaced Eesti Energia
    and VKG oil-shale workers into Civic Robot Corps of
    Estonia roles.

(2) Coordination shall reflect the Plan's stated targets

    (1,100 direct green-industry jobs; reskilling 11,000
    oil-shale workers) and the demographic context of
    Ida-Viru (population 130,362 as of 1 January 2024;
    rapidly ageing and decreasing; approximately 95 percent
    Russian-speaking in Narva).

ARTICLE 25. STRATEGIC RESERVES AND NATO EASTERN-FRONTIER

            SECURITY.

(1) Recognising Estonia's NATO eastern-frontier position

    (Narva 130 km from St Petersburg; the Setomaa tri-border;
    Saaremaa and Hiiumaa as Baltic Sea defensive positions),
    the Authority shall maintain strategic reserves of
    basic-needs goods, distributed across the fifteen County
    Delivery Units with priority allocation to Ida-Viru,
    Voru, Saaremaa, and Hiiumaa, sufficient to support
    Estonian civil-defence requirements consistent with the
    Ministry of Defence (Kaitseministeerium) and Estonian
    Defence Forces (Kaitsevagi) planning.

(2) The strategic reserves are managed in coordination with

    the Estonian Defence Forces and the Estonian Defence
    League (Kaitseliit).

TITLE VII - IMPLEMENTATION PHASES

ARTICLE 26. FOUR-PHASE IMPLEMENTATION.

PHASE I - ESTABLISHMENT (Months 0-12). Authority established as state foundation under Ministry of Finance; Supervisory Board and Management Board appointed; fifteen MTUs seated; Productive Capacity Shares issued via isikukood + SKA + Eesti.ee + X-Road; KredEx Coordination Agreement signed.

PHASE II - INITIAL CORPS OPERATIONS (Months 12-36). Civic Robot Corps of Estonia commences operations in Harju (capital) and Ida-Viru (just-transition priority); Eesti Energia + Elering + Fermi Energia Coordination Agreements signed; initial KredEx-coordinated credit guarantees and SmartCap equity co-investment up to EUR 200 million drawn.

PHASE III - ESTONIA-WIDE OPERATIONS (Months 36-72). Corps operations extend to all fifteen MTUs with priority deployment in Ida-Viru, Voru, Saaremaa, and Hiiumaa. Coordination with Fermi Energia BWRX-300 advances from national planning process to deployment-phase coordination under separate Government decision. ELWIND offshore-wind coordination operational. Annual Productive Capacity Dividend in regular distribution on 24 February.

PHASE IV - STEADY-STATE OPERATING POSTURE (Month 72 onward). Authority reaches steady-state. No sunset.

TITLE VIII - GENERAL PROVISIONS

ARTICLE 27. EFFECTIVE DATE.

(1) Articles 1 (Short Title) and 27 (Effective Date) take

    effect on the date this Act is proclaimed in the Riigi
    Teataja.

(2) Remaining provisions take effect on 1 July 2027.

(3) The Government shall issue implementing regulations

    (Vabariigi Valitsuse maarused) within 120 days of
    proclamation.

ARTICLE 28. SEVERABILITY.

If any provision is held invalid by the Supreme Court (Riigikohus), the invalidity does not affect other provisions that can be given effect.

ARTICLE 29. CONSTITUTIONAL CONSISTENCY.

This Act is enacted consistent with the Constitution of the Republic of Estonia (1992), particularly Article 10 (the supreme power of state vested in the people), Article 28 (the right to social security), Article 29 (freedom of occupation), Article 31 (entrepreneurial freedom), and Article 53 (environmental duty); and consistent with the philosophical heritage of Lennart Meri, Lydia Koidula, Eduard Vilde, the Singing Revolution (1987-1991), the Baltic Way of 23 August 1989, the Tartu Peace Treaty of 2 February 1920, and the Laulupidu cooperative-cultural tradition.

ARTICLE 30. INTERPRETATION.

In this Act -

"the Authority" or "ETVA" means the Estonian Productive Capacity Authority established under Article 4;

"the Corps" or "EKRK" means the Civic Robot Corps of Estonia established under Article 17;

"MTU" means a County Delivery Unit established under Article 16;

"KredEx" means SA KredEx, the Estonian state foundation established 2001;

"SmartCap" means the Estonian state venture-capital arm under the KredEx umbrella;

"EAS" means Eesti Ettevotluse ja Innovatsiooni Agentuur, the Estonian Business and Innovation Agency;

"Eesti Energia" means Eesti Energia AS;

"Elering" means Elering AS;

"Fermi Energia" means the Estonian nuclear developer pursuing GE Hitachi BWRX-300 small modular reactor deployment;

"SKA" means SA Sotsiaalkindlustusamet, the Estonian Social Insurance Board;

"Eesti taastekava" means the Estonian Recovery and Resilience Plan under the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility;

"Baltic Synchro" means the 9 February 2025 14:05 EET synchronisation of the Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian electricity grids with the Continental Europe Synchronous Area, managed by ENTSO-E;

"X-Road" or "X-tee" means the Estonian data-exchange interoperability backbone operational since 2001;

"the Marmot quartet" means the four research programmes identified in Universal Foundational Citation C above (Marmot Whitehall, Sapolsky Serengeti baboons, Shively cynomolgus macaques, Blackburn telomere research);

"the replication threshold" means the Casey Handmer formulation identified in Universal Foundational Citation A above;

"county" means an Estonian maakond (one of the fifteen);

"ordinarily resident" has the meaning given by Estonian residence law.

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