Transfer of HITSA activities. August 1st 2020

On 27 July 2020, the Republic of Estonia via the Education and Youth Authority established in the area of administration of the Ministry of Education and Research and the Information Technology Foundation for Education (HITSA) concluded a contract for the transfer of enterprise under which as of 1 August 2020 all the activities of HITSA will transfer to the Education and Youth Authority. 

It is part of the Estonian state reform, which brings the activities in the field of education and youth in a single governmental authority in the field of administration of the Ministry of Education and Research. The activities are transferred and continue without substantive changes. The transfer is governed by legal rules regulating the transfer of an enterprise (Law of Obligations Act §§ 180-185). 

HITSA will perform the contractual payment obligations assumed before 1 August 2020. In the case of a contract fee payment obligation arising as of 1 August 2020, the invoice will be paid by the Education and Youth Authority (invoices should be sent to harno@arved.ee). 

Contractual payment obligations owed to HITSA before the transfer of the enterprise on 1 August 2020 should be paid to HITSA on the basis of the invoice issued by HITSA. In the case of contractual obligations arising after the said date, the issuer and beneficiary of the invoice is the Education and Youth Authority. 

Details of the Education and Youth Authority:

HITSA’s activities will continue in the Education and Youth Authority in Tallinn at Lõõtsa 4 and in Tartu at Soola 3. The smart classroom will remain at Akadeemia tee 21/4.