Letter
| Dokumendiregister | Rahandusministeerium |
| Viit | 12.1-2/4507-1 |
| Registreeritud | 10.11.2026 |
| Sünkroonitud | 11.11.2026 |
| Liik | Sissetulev kiri |
| Funktsioon | 12.1 RIIGIABIALANE TEGEVUS |
| Sari | 12.1-2 Riigiabialane kirjavahetus Euroopa Liidu ja teiste rahvusvaheliste organisatsioonidega, sh Ekle esitatav aruanne (Arhiiviväärtuslik) |
| Toimik | 12.1-2/2026 |
| Juurdepääsupiirang | Avalik |
| Adressaat | European Commission |
| Saabumis/saatmisviis | European Commission |
| Vastutaja | Ljudmilla Sokolnikova (Rahandusministeerium, Halduspoliitika valdkond, Riigi osaluspoliitika ja riigihangete osakond) |
| Originaal | Ava uues aknas |
| Taotle dokumendi eemaldamist või parandamist |
Failid
Dear Sir, Madam,
Please find attached the results of the 2026 Transparency Compliance Checks for your Member State.
The complete description of the methodology followed in the 2026 Compliance Checks exercise can be found in the country fiche attached to this email. The document is presented in the form of a questionnaire, for your Authorities to provide further clarifications on the different issues identified. The accompanying excel file contains the details of these issues.
We expect to receive your questionnaire completed by Friday 27 November 2026 at the latest at the email address [email protected], cc: [email protected], indicating HT.100694 in the subject.
Please do not hesitate to contact us through the functional mailbox [email protected]if you need further clarifications.
Best regards,
State Aid Registry
European Commission
DG Competition
MADOU Office 13/031
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
Tel: +32 2 29 61154
E-mail: [email protected]
DG Competition website: http://ec.europa.eu/competition
Transparency Compliance Checks 2026
Bilateral Communication on Compliance Issues – ESTONIA
Scope
Enhancing transparency in public spending is a priority goal for the Commission. The transparency provisions introduced by the State Aid Modernisation (SAM) address this concern by requiring Member States to publish detailed information on all individual aid awards above certain thresholds, depending on the legal basis of the aid measure and the sector of activity of the undertaking. In this context, periodically the Commission verifies the completeness and accuracy of the information published under the transparency requirements through the compliance checks. The 2026 exercise investigates the compliance with transparency rules of ad hoc measures and individual applications. The current exercise excludes measures for agriculture and fisheries.
The analysis follows an integrated data approach that combines information from three State aid data sources: (i) case management application (Case@EC), (ii) case aid spending (SARI2) and (iii) Transparency Award Module (TAM). Information from Case@EC is used to identify the State aid measures subject to transparency, as well as the type of measure. Once the measures have been identified, information from SARI2 is used to verify which active measures have spent more than the threshold for the publication in the period considered in the analysis. Finally, the same measures and related aid awards are searched in the TAM. The outcome of this process are the compliance issues with respect to the publication obligation.
This note presents the main findings of the 2026 Compliance Checks exercise and it is meant to directly ask information on specific aid awards. Member States are invited to provide further clarifications on the issues identified and to make general comments and suggestions no later than Friday 27 November 2026. In case the national registry is used for the registration of the aid awards instead of the Transparency Award Module, we kindly ask you to submit, together with the completed fiche, also an extraction of the aid awards from the national registry, and to indicate the link to the website.
Compliance issues for ad hoc measures and individual applications within a scheme.
Compliance issues arise when a Member State fails to publish an aid award (i.e. there are no entries or entries with the registered amount equal to zero in the TAM) under a measure for which the amount spent per beneficiary is equal or higher than the thresholds triggering the publication obligation.
Compliance issues were identified for:
• 3 GBER ad hoc measures
The list and the details of these cases are available in the Annex file (see Excel “Compliance_Estonia.xlsx”, sheet “GBER”).
Please indicate for which, if any, of the selected measures, your authorities consider that there is no compliance issue, and explain why:
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For each of the remaining measures, please describe the specific difficulties that contributed to the compliance issue and how they will be addressed in the future:
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