The Self Service Border Waters Self Service Registration is available at: www.piiriveekogu.ee
If you are planning to go to the eastern border for a holiday, make sure you know where the temporary control line is. If you have any questions, you can always contact your local police station for assistance. When hiking, picking mushrooms and berries near the eastern border, be careful. Border posts mark the temporary control line between the Republic of Estonia and the Russian Federation, and red-handed warning signs with the sign “Stop, Estonian border” mark the border zone .
According to the Border Management Regulation, explosions, drills, competitions, chases and other events that may interfere with the surveillance of the external border or disturb the peace at the border must be coordinated in writing with the Prefecture within five kilometres of the external border. The use of poisonous and radioactive substances in border waters is prohibited. Border peace shall be disturbed by any activity the effects of which may extend beyond the external border or impede the surveillance of the external border.
The use of red flares without a reason is prohibited in the territorial and inland sea, Lake Peipsi, Lake Lämmijärvi and Lake Pihkva and in the immediate vicinity of these waters. The red flare is a distress call sign, the unprovoked use of which is prohibited by law.