The list of legal acts includes librarianship acts for library employees and managers, professors and students of information sciences and librarianship, as well as those preparing for vocation exams.
The library legal acts are displayed according to main types of libraries. Legal acts regulating the vocational and further training of librarians are presented in a separate section.
The legal acts are ordered within each section: legislation and subsequent legal acts; regulations and orders issued by the Government of Estonia; regulations of the minister and other legislation.
The legal acts are displayed in reverse chronological order of their passing and are published in the electronic version of the Riigi Teataja (only in Estonian).

Research, special and academic libraries

GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC ACT

• Statutes of the Estonian Repositary Library (Regulation of the Minister of Culture)
• Statutes of the Estonian Children’s Literature Centre (Regulation of the Minister of Culture)
• Termination of operation of the Estonian Medical Library as state authority (Regulation of the Minister of Social Affairs)

INSTITUTIONS OF PROFESSIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION ACT

• Requirements for universities and institutions of professional higher education and their curricula upon accreditation and the procedure for accreditation (Regulation of the Government of the Republic)

PRIVATE EDUCATION INSTITUTION ACT

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF ESTONIA ACT

• Appointment of members of the Supervisory Board of the National Library of Estonia (Resolution of the Riigikogu)

ORGANISATION OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACT

• Establishment of the Estonian Research Information System [State Registry] and the statute for its maintenance (Regulation of the Government of the Republic)
• The Principles for the Preparation of a Uniform Collection Development Plan for Research Libraries and the Procedure for Application for the Financing of the Acquisition of Scientific Information for Research Libraries and of Data Media for Archives Libraries, for the Review of the Applications and for Decisions on the Financing (Regulation of the Minister of Education and Research)
• Designation of research libraries and archives libraries (Order of the Government of the Republic)
• Requirements for research libraries and archives libraries and the conditions and procedure for designation as a research library or archives library (Regulation of the Minister of Education and Research)

DEPOSIT COPY ACT

• Transfer of the Deposit Copies Collection (Regulation of the Minister of Culture)
• Implementation of Deposit Copy Act (Regulation of the Minister of Culture)

UNIVERSITY OF TARTU ACT

UNIVERSITIES ACT

• Regulation for the Exchange of Official Publications and Government Documents (Regulation of the Government of the Republic)

Public libraries

PUBLIC LIBRARIES ACT

• Instructions for organisation of work of public libraries (Regulation of the Minister of Culture)
• Approval of the Statutes of the Council of Estonian Public Libraries (Regulation of the Minister of Culture)
• Approval of rules for allocation expenditures to public libraries financed from the state Budget (Regulation of the Minister of Culture)
• Designation of County Libraries (Regulation of the Minister of Culture)

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ORGANISATION ACT

COPYRIGHT ACT

• Act to Regulate the Rates, Calculation and Payment of Remuneration Paid to Authors for the Lending of Their Works from Public Libraries (Regulation of the Government of the Republic)

School libraries

BASIC SCHOOLS AND UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOLS ACT

• List of all textbooks, work exercise-books and workbooks which conform to the national curriculum for the academic year 2007/2008 (Regulation of the Minister of Education and Research)
• Bases for the organisation of work of school libraries (Regulation of the Minister of Education)

Librarians

PROFESSIONS ACT

• Approval of the composition of Culture professional council (Order of the Government of the Republic)

RECOGNITION OF FOREIGN PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS ACT

ADULT EDUCATION ACT

REPUBLIC OF ESTONIA LAW ON EDUCATION

• Conformity of the professional qualifications awarded in previous USSR until 20th August 1991, to professional qualifications of he Republic of Estonia
• Health protection requirements for computer studies and public use of computers (Regulation of the Ministry of Social Affairs)
• Professional standard for Librarian, qualifications III, IV, V