OREANDA-NEWS. February 15, 2010. President Toomas Hendrik Ilves promulgated the law amending the Electricity Market Act, which was passed by the Riigikogu.

At the same time, the President sent the Chancellor of Justice a letter, requesting that he pay special attention to a provision of the aforementioned act, which will abolish the support for operators who generate electricity from biomass in summer, which was available as of 1st May 2007.

The President can only reject a law as a whole. This would mean that provisions, which are in line with the Constitution and must be passed as soon as possible to open 35 per cent of the Estonian electricity market as of 1st April and to avoid threatening the construction of an EU supported second submarine communications cable between Estonia and Finland, would also remain ineffective. The Chancellor of Justice has the right to contest single provisions of any law, if appropriate.