THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF
THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
DECISION
Concerning the dismissal of initiated legal proceedings
13 October 1993, Vilnius
The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania,
composed from the Justices of the Constitutional Court
Algirdas Gailiūnas, Kęstutis Lapinskas, Pranas Vytautas
Rasimavičius, Stasys Stačiokas, Teodora Staugaitienė and
Juozas Žilys,
the secretary of the hearing - Rolanda Stimbirytė,
the party concerned - the Seimas representative Juozas
Bernatonis,
in court hearing, having examined the issue pertaining
to the dismissal of the initiated legal proceedings of case
No 1,
established:
The petitioner - a group of the Seimas members -
request to investigate the compliance of the provision
established in Part 2 of Article 137 of Chapter IV of the
Seimas Statute - "Radio and Television of the Republic of
Lithuania as well as national newspapers while reporting on
the Seimas sittings shall also release a communiquė. Mass
media reportings shall be devoid of comments on the Seimas
activities" - with Articles 25 and 44 of the Constitution
of the Republic of the Lithuania. The Seimas on October 12
1993 adopted the legal act "On the alteration of Article
137 of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania Statute".
With the adoption of this legal act the Seimas in fact
abrogated the disputable legal act which is a ground for the
dismissal of the initiated legal proceedings of the case.
Conforming to Part 4 of Article 69 of the Law on the
Constitutional Court, the Constitutional Court has taken the
following
decision:
To dismiss the initiated legal proceedings of the case.
Justices of the Constitutional Court:
Algirdas Gailiūnas Kęstutis Lapinskas
Pranas Vytautas Rasimavičius Stasys Stačiokas
Teodora Staugaitienė Juozas Žilys