food-business-approvals

name	food-business-approvals
description	Query the Agriculture and Food Board JVIS public register for registered and approved food or feed business operators.

Food And Feed Business Operators (JVIS)

Access

• Public application: https://jvis.agri.ee/jvis/avalik.html
• Food operator API: POST https://jvis.agri.ee/jvis/api/avalik/toidukaitleja/otsing
• Feed operator API: POST https://jvis.agri.ee/jvis/api/avalik/soodakaitleja/otsing
• No login is required, but API calls require cookies from the public application and the XSRF-TOKEN cookie echoed in the X-XSRF-TOKEN header.

Retrieve

Use a cookie-aware client. First GET the public application, then send JSON to one of the search endpoints with the same cookies and XSRF header:

{
  "filter": {"kaitlejaNimi": "Selver"},
  "sort": [
    {"field": "kaitlejaNimi", "direction": "ascending"},
    {"field": "tegevuskohaNimi", "direction": "ascending"}
  ],
  "page": {"number": 1, "size": 20}
}

Useful food filters are kaitlejaNimi, kaitlejaKood, tegevuskohaNimi, tegevuskohaAadress, tunnusnumber, maakonnaEhak, onlyTunnustatud, pohiKaitlemisvaldkonnad, and kaitlemisvaldkonnad. Start with one narrow text filter; an unfiltered query is large.

Return

• The response is JSON with total and data.
• Preserve kaitlejaNimi, kaitlejaIsikukoodRegkood, kaitlejaAadress, tegevuskohaNimi, tegevuskohaAadress, tunnusnumber, and the activity/approval fields present in each record.
• Report the endpoint, filter, page number, page size, retrieval time, and total.

Limits

• Search values and classifier codes are primarily Estonian.
• onlyTunnustatud: true limits results to approved establishments; false or omitted also includes notified operators.
• Treat personal identifiers and addresses as public-register data and return only fields relevant to the request.
• A direct API POST without the cookie/XSRF bootstrap returns an error and is not a valid availability check.

Verify

• Require HTTP 200 and application/json from the POST.
• Require integer total, list data, and operator and location fields in returned rows.