REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
STATUTE
9 June 1993 No.I-179
Vilnius
Part 3
Committees and Commissions of the Seimas
Chapter 6.
Seimas Committees and the Procedure for
the Establishment thereof
Article 29. Committees of the Seimas of the Republic of
Lithuania shall be formed during the first session.
At the beginning of each regular session, reports on the
work of the committee shall be heard, and, as necessary, changes
in the membership of the committee shall be made by adhering to
the principle of proportional representation of parliamentary
groups, or the committee shall be formed anew.
Article 30. Committees shall be made up of no less than 7
and no more than 17 members of the Seimas according to the
proportional principle of representation: bigger parliamentary
groups shall have the right to a proportionally greater number of
seats in each committee. The exact number of members of each
committee shall be determined by a decision of the Seimas. Seats
in the committees shall be distributed among parliamentary groups
during the Assembly of the Spokesmen.
Parliamentary groups, taking into consideration the requests
and competence of their members, shall recommend to the
committees as many members as they are accorded seats as well as
the same number of alternate committee members. Applications of
parliamentary groups bearing the signatures of recommended Seimas
members shall be submitted to the Seimas Chancellor.
Each parliamentary group shall submit its candidates to the
alternate members of the committees having registered them in
numerical order.
The members and alternate members of committees shall be
approved by the Seimas by voting for the entire list of the
members and alternate members of the committee. If the list is
not approved, the entire procedure shall begin anew.
The Speaker of the Seimas may not be a member or alternate
member of any committee.
Article 31. When a member of a committee does not
participate in a sitting of the committee, all of the said
member's rights shall be given to the alternate member of the
committee of the same parliamentary group who is the first in the
list of deputies.
Seimas members who are substituting for a member of their
parliamentary group in a given committee may not serve as the
chairperson or vice-chairperson of that committee while doing so.
Article 32. Committees shall elect their chairpersons and
alternate chairpersons. Committee chairpersons and alternate
chairpersons hall be approved by the Seimas.
In the event that the Seimas does not approve the proposed
candidate, the committee must select another candidate. Usually
the committee chairperson and deputy chairperson are elected from
the representatives of different parliamentary groups, and the
general number of chairpersons and deputy chairpersons of the
committees accorded to a parliamentary group are in proportion to
the number of members of the parliamentary group.
Members of the Seimas Board, members of the Seimas and the
Government, and commission chairpersons and deputy chairpersons
may not serve as a committee chairpersons or deputy chairpersons.
When a committee is being reorganised, the chairperson and
deputy chaiperson of the committee shall be reelected. A
committee may reelect the chairperson or deputy chairperson at
any other time by applying to the Seimas for approval of the new
chairperson or deputy chairperson. In the event that the Seimas
does not approve the new chairperson or deputy chairperson, the
former chairperson shall remain, and the committee may only apply
to the Seimas concerning the same issue during the next regular
session.
Article 33. For the execution of their main duties,
committees may form sub-committees from their members.
Sub-committee must comprise at least 5 members. Sub-
committee chairpersons shall be elected by the committee.
The regulations of the sub-committees shall be approved by
the committees.
Article 34. The following committees shall be appointed in
the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania:
Agriculture
Budget and Finance
Economics
Environmental Protection
National Security
Municipal Government
Health, Social Affairs and Labour
Education, Science and Culture
Foreign Affairs
State and Law
Human and Civil Rights and Nationality Affairs
Chapter 7.
Seimas Committees and the Rights, Duties and Organisation thereof
Article 35. The direction of activities of committees of the
Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, as well as the procedure for
the organization and functions thereof and their rights and
duties shall be established by this Statute and other laws of the
Republic of Lithuania.
Seimas committees shall be responsible and accountable to
the Seimas.
During the time established to discuss and present findings
on matters given to them for consideration, committees must
perform other tasks assigned by the Seimas.
The activities of the committees shall be coordinated by the
Chairperson and Chancellor of the Seimas in accordance with the
session work programmes and committee work plans.
Article 37. The main powers of the committees with respect
to issues within their jurisdiction are:
1) to debate bills, prepare conclusions, and consider
issues referred to the committee;
2) on its own initiative or at the behest of the Seimas, to
prepare drafts of the Laws of the Republic of Lithuania and of
other legal acts, and to establish in due time the necessity of
new laws or the amendments to laws in effect;
3) seeking to improve the laws, to prepare and consider
issues related to state, economic, social and cultural matters,
and to present proposals subject to debate in the Seimas;
4) to discuss the candidate for Prime Minister proposed by
the President of the Republic;
5) to consider the programme presented by the new
Government;
6) to discuss candidates for heads of state institutions
which are appointed by the Seimas or for the appointment of which
the approval of the Seimas is necessary, as well as to consider
their dismissal from office;
7) to preliminarily discuss the chapters of the State draft
budget of the Republic of Lithuania and accounts on budget
performance;
8) to discuss proposals to establish or abolish ministries
or other state institutions;
9) while performing parliamentary supervision, to hear
information and reports furnished by ministries and other state
institutions on the manner by which the laws are being
implemented;
10) to consider proposals of individual persons and public
organisations and, as necessary, to refer them alongside with
recommendations to state institutions;
11) to prepare work plans of the committee coordinated with
the session work programme;
12) to estimate the committee expenditures without exceeding
the amount appropriated for the committee;
13) to take part in the inter-parliamentary relations of
the Seimas.
Article 38. In discussing issues that are within their
jurisdiction, the committees shall have equal rights and
obligations, and shall be responsible for the timely discussion
of certain laws, for the initiation of the preparation of these
laws, and the commission of detailed conclusions relative to
draft laws. Issues which are within the jurisdiction of several
committees may be prepared and discussed by these committees
jointly on their own initiative or at the behest of the Seimas or
its Board. For this purpose they may hold joint committee
sittings which shall be presided over by the chairpersons of
these committees in succession.
Committees shall have the right to submit proposals to the
Seimas or its Board concerning the passing over of the issues
under discussion to another committee for consideration.
Committees shall have the right to present their comments on
issues discussed by another committee, as well as to ask another
committee to present its conclusions, which must be submitted
within 15 days.
Article 40. Committees shall have the right to propose to
the Seimas that draft laws of the Republic of Lithuania or other
important State and public matters be presented to the public
for discussion.
Article 41. Committees shall adopt decisions on issues under
discussion, which shall be recommended to state institutions.
Committees sending their recommendations and proposals must
inform the Seimas Board and, as necessary, the Government
thereof. Having received the recommendations and proposals from
the Seimas committees, state institutions, with the exception of
courts, must discuss said issues. Committees must be notified of
the results of the discussion or the measures undertaken within
15 days or within another period fixed by committees.
Article 42. Committees shall, in accordance with their
competence, have the right to control adherence of the laws of
the Republic of Lithuania as well as the consideration of
recommendations and proposals of the committees.
Committees shall also have the right to hear out the heads
or representatives of state institutions, with the exception of
courts. On the invitation of the committee, these officers must
attend the sitting of the committee and present explanations on
matters under discussion. The officers must be notified of this
at least two working days before the commencement of said
hearing.
In the event that a committee resolves that information of a
Government member must be heard, it must address the Seimas
Chairperson, who will notify the Prime Minister thereof. In this
case, the Government member must attend the sitting of the
committee.
Article 43. Pursuant to their competence, committees shall
have the right to demand documents, written findings, reports,
and other necessary material from state institutions and
officers, with the exception of courts.
Article 44. Committees shall have the right to interpellate
Government members in the Seimas, as well as heads of state
institutions appointed by the Seimas, with the exception of the
Constitutional and Supreme Court.
Article 45. Committees not exceeding the expenditure budget
appropriated to it shall have the right to propose the conclusion
of contracts with members of the staffs of committees as well as
to invite experts.
Committees may invite other Seimas members to sittings and
may also seek assistance from the deputies of local government
councils, representatives of ministries, and other state
institutions and organisations, scientific institutions,
specialists, scientists and other necessary individuals, having
coordinated this with heads of these institutions.
Article 46. Committee members shall have the right of a
decisive vote on all issues within the committee's jurisdiction.
Committee members shall also have the right to propose
issues for consideration, and to participate in the preparation
and consideration thereof; to propose to invite necessary persons
to committee sittings; to submit proposals concerning the
inspection of state institutions and the hearing of their
information. Committee members shall have the right to get
acquainted with all documents and material belonging to the
committee and, as necessary, to make use of them in their work.
Article 47. The chairperson of the committee shall:
1) convene sittings of the committee and see that necessary
documents and other material be prepared for them;
2) assign, according to the approved work plans and
decisions of the committee, tasks to the committee members, and
provide them with material and documents relating to the
activities of the committee;
3) for the execution of the work plan of the committee,
organise members of the committee to work in preparatory
commissions and work groups, and to discharge other assignments
of the committee;
4) invite necessary persons to participate in the sittings
of the committee;
5) preside over sittings of the committee;
6) sign the resolutions of the committee, the findings and
minutes of the sittings, as well as the draft laws prepared by
the committee which are submitted to the Seimas or the public
for consideration, and shall visa adopted laws and other legal
acts of the Seimas prepared by the committee;
7) represent the committee in its work with other state
institutions and public organisations;
8) organise the implementation of the committee's
resolutions;
9) regularly notify members of the committee of received law
drafts, new assignments for the committee, the execution of the
resolutions of the committee, consideration of their
recommendations, and work in representing the committee.
10) notify the Commission on Ethics and Procedure of members
who do not attend sittings of the committee and who are not
fulfilling the assignments set forth in paragraph 2 of this
Article;
11) coordinate the activities of the subcommittees of the
committee.
Article 48. At the behest of the chairperson of the
committee, a vice-chairperson shall discharge certain functions
of the chairperson. The vice-chairperson shall fill in for the
chairperson when the chairperson cannot discharge his or her
functions because of temporary absence or illness.
Chapter 8. Seimas Committees. Trends of Activities
Article 49. The trends of activities of the Committee on
Agriculture shall be:
1) to prepare draft laws and other legal acts
regulating the activities of the agricultural and food industry
and to present findings on drafts referred to the committee for
preliminary or additional consideration;
2) to prepare and consider proposals relative to the
formation of the agrarian policy, the determination of the trends
of agricultural science and training, and the drawing up of legal
acts necessary for that purpose;
3) to discuss and present findings relative to the drafts
of laws and programmes presented by the Government, as well as
chapters of the State draft budget pertaining to the agriculture
and food industry, their material- technical supply, and the
development of social basis in the countryside;
4) to carry out the examination of draft laws regulating the
Lithuanian economy from the standpoint of the agrarian policy and
to present recommendations and findings;
5) to carry out parliamentary control of agrarian
institutions and the food industry;
6) to coordinate the work of interested state institutions
and organisations in preparing draft laws regulating the
activities of agricultural and food industry.
Article 50. The trends of activities of the Committee on
Budget and Finance shall be:
1) to consider the draft budget of the Republic submitted by
the Government to the Seimas for its approval and to present
summarised findings of all the committees relative thereto;
2) to carry out general and continuous review of the budget
performance;
3) together with other committees, to prepare findings
relative to the State budget performance accounts;
4) to prepare drafts of laws and other legal acts relative
to budget and finance;
5) to prepare and submit findings concerning the draft laws
which have an effect on the State budget revenue and expenditure;
and
6) to discuss and prepare findings as well as to present
proposals concerning the draft laws on taxes and special funds,
the review of the State budget performance, the financing
procedure of institutions and organisations maintained from the
budget, the norms of their expenditure, the norms of the
formation of the local government budgets, the budget outlays
for the implementation of various programmes, as well as for the
financing of the Seimas and its staff;
7) to carry out parliamentary review of the utilisation of
state property and the activities of the Bank of Lithuania, and
to present proposals and recommendations relative thereto.
Article 51. The trends of activities of the Committee on
Economics shall be:
1) to consider and submit findings related to draft laws of
economic and social reform, other legal acts, and governmental
programmes;
2) to prepare and consider proposals concerning the
formation of a policy for the development of the Lithuanian
economy and technical progress;
3) to prepare drafts of laws, other legal acts, and
proposals concerning the planning of economic and social
development;
4) to consider draft programs for anti-monopoly actions,
improvement of the economic mechanism, and the development of
foreign relations, and submit findings to the Seimas; and
5) to perform parliamentary review of administrative
institutions of energy, communications and transportation; to
submit proposals and recommendations concerning improvement of
the activities of said institutions,; and to participate in the
preparation of draft laws relative thereto.
Article 52. The trends of activities of the Committee on
Environmental Protection shall be:
1) to prepare drafts of laws and other legal acts and submit
proposals on issues concerning environmental protection, the
utilization of resources, forestry, fisheries, and wildlife;
2) to coordinate the work of interested state institutions
and other organizations in preparing draft laws on issues
specified in paragraph 1 of this Article;
3) to consider, from an environmental protection standpoint,
draft laws and other legal acts which are referred to the
committee;
4) to prepare and consider proposals concerning the
formation of an environmental protection policy in Lithuania; and
5) to carry out parliamentary control of the state
institutions of environmental protection, and to present
proposals and recommendations for the improvement of the
activities of theses institutions and organisations which are
related to environmental protection and the utilization of
resources.
Article 53. The trends of activities of the Committee on
National Security shall be:
1) to consider and prepare drafts of laws and other legal
acts on issues of national defense, State security and internal
affairs;
2) to coordinate the work of interested state institutions
in preparing draft laws on issues specified in paragraph 1 of
this Article;
3) to consider and present proposals concerning the
formation of a national defense policy and the creation and
improvement of appropriate structures;
4) to prepare proposals concerning the implementation of the
reform of the system of internal affairs;
5) to carry out parliamentary control of the institutions of
national defense, State security, and internal affairs, and to
present proposals and recommendations concerning the improvement
of their activities; and
6) to present proposals and recommendations concerning the
development of branches of technical sports.
Article 56. The trends of activities of the Committee on
Local Governments shall be:
1) to prepare and consider draft laws and other legal acts
on issues concerning the organization of work of local
governments, and to present findings thereon;
2) to prepare proposals concerning the administrative and
territorial division of the Republic of Lithuania;
3) to present proposals concerning the dissolution of local
government councils and the organisation of elections thereto;
4) together with other committees, to resolve issues of
economic and organisational activities of local governments;
and
5) to provide methodological assistance to local
government councils.
Article 57. The trends of activities of the Committee on
Health, Social Affairs and Labor shall be:
1) to prepare drafts of laws and other legal acts which
regulate individual health protection, sanitary environmental
condition, employment, labor relations, social assistance and
provision of living space, and to present findings relative to
these draft laws and other legal acts which are referred to the
committee;
2) to coordinate the work of interested institutions and
organizations in preparing draft laws on issues specified in
paragraph 1 of this Article;
3) to consider and present proposals concerning the
formation of the health protection policy; and
4) to control institutions of health care and social
security, and to present proposals and recommendations for the
improvement of the activities thereof.
58. The trends of activities of the Committee on Education,
Science and Culture shall be:
1) to prepare and consider drafts of laws, directives and
other legislation which regulates education, science, culture
and public information, and to present proposals relative
thereto;
2) to consider and present findings on draft legislation
related to education, science, culture and public information
which are referred to the committee, as well as other projects,
while keeping the compliance thereof with the state policy
related to these issues in mind;
3) to prepare proposals and recommendations for the
Government and local governments concerning education, science,
culture and public information; and
4) to provide support to persons, organisations and
institutions engaged in cultural activities.
Article 59. The trends of activities of the Committee on
Foreign Affairs shall be:
1) to prepare conclusions concerning the ratification and
denouncement of international agreements of the Republic of
Lithuania as well as other issues of foreign policy which are
considered in the Seimas;
2) to prepare and consider drafts of laws and other
legislative acts related to foreign affairs, to consider them
from the standpoint of the foreign policy of the Republic of
Lithuania and international law, and to submit the conclusions
thereon;
3) to analyze the basic principles of the policy,
priorities, trends, and activities of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania, as well as of state and
public organizations which maintain relations with foreign
countries, to submit proposals and recommendations, and to
notify the Seimas thereof;
4) to consider and submit recommendations to state
negotiation delegations, and to consider proposed candidates to
said delegations;
5) to coordinate and discuss the activities of the
delegations of the Seimas in international organizations and
forums and the activities of inter-parliamentary relations
groups, and to submit recommendations and proposals thereto;
6) to analyse and submit proposals relative to information
and propaganda activities of mass media and other state
organizations meant for foreign countries;
7) together with state and public organizations, to
maintain and develop relations with Lithuanian emigrants and
their organisations, as well as with the Lithuanians autochtons
residing beyond the boundaries of the Republic of Lithuania;
8) together with other committees, to consider the
regulation of migration problems and to submit proposals and
conclusions thereon;
9) to consider and submit recommendations and proposals to
the Government concerning the establishment of diplomatic
relations of the Republic of Lithuania and the opening of
Lithuanian embassies abroad;
10) on the proposal of other committees, to consider and
submit recommendations to the Seimas Board concerning business
trips to foreign countries of Seimas members, to consider the
reports on such business trips, and to analyze and submit
proposals and conclusions regarding the utilization of Seimas
funds for business trips abroad;
11) to consider proposals and submit conclusions related to
the appointment of diplomatic representatives in foreign states.
Article 60. The trends of the activities of the Committee
on State and Law shall be:
1) to consider and make proposals concerning the formation
of state legal policy;
2) to prepare and help carry out reform of the legal system;
3) to consider and present conclusions concerning project
proposals for the supplementation and amendment of the
Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania as well as drafts of
laws which are under discussion and which are related to the
Constitution;
4) to prepare proposals and drafts of laws which are related
to issues concerning the realization of justice and the
strengthening of legality and law and order;
5) to consider and present conclusions and suggestions
concerning reforms of the system of state institutions;
6) to present legal conclusions concerning drafts of laws
prepared by other committees and other legal acts;
7) to coordinate the preparation of draft laws which are
related to the realization of justice and the strengthening of
legality and law and order;
8) to consider candidacies to judges and chairpersons of the
Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court, and other courts which
are appointed by the Seimas or whose nomination requires the
approval of the Seimas, as well as issues concerning the
dismissal of said judges;
9) to carry out parliamentary control of the activities of
law enforcement institutions, with the exception of the courts,
and to prepare conclusions and proposals related thereto;
10) to prepare and present conclusions and recommendations
to the Seimas concerning the activities of the Ministry of
Justice, General Office of the Prosecutor and other law
enforcement bodies;
11) to prepare draft laws and suggestions concerning the
improvement of the system of state control; and
12) to supervise, without interfering in operational
activities, the work of the State Control Department.
Article 60-1. The trends of activities of the Committee on
Human and Citizens' Rights and Nationalities Affairs shall be:
1) to prepare and consider drafts of laws and other legal
acts as well as proposals which are related to the guarantees of
civil rights and the regulation of ethnic relations among the
nationalities living in Lithuania;
2) to present recommendations and proposals to ministries,
state institutions, other organizations, and Seimas committees on
issues concerning the protection of civil rights and the
improvement of ethnic relations; and
3) to supervise, without interfering in operation
activities, the work of the Seimas ombudsmen, and to prepare
conclusions and proposals which are related thereto.
Chapter 9.
Seimas Committees. Procedure.
Article 115. The committees of the Seimas of the Republic of
Lithuania shall work according to committee-approved plans which
must be coordinated with the work program of the session of the
Seimas. Responsible executers and the terms of implementation
shall be indicated in these work plans. Committee work plans and
the agenda of the sittings shall be publicly announced and
distributed to the Chairperson of the Seimas, the Chancellor, and
the subdivisions of the Seimas apparatus.
Committees may confirm the rules of their procedure provided
that they do not contradict this statute.
Article 116. Committee sittings shall be organized as
necessary during sessions, but at least once a week and normally
on Wednesdays. Committee sittings shall not be organized during
sittings of the Seimas. Between ordinary sessions of the Seimas,
there shall normally be one-month adjournments in the work of the
committees, although committees may have sitting between sessions
as necessary.
Committee sittings shall be called on the initiative of the
committee chairperson or of one third of the committee members,
or upon the instruction of the Seimas or the Board.
Committees may have closed sittings.
Article 117. Committee sittings shall be presided over by
the chairperson of the committee or by a deputy chairperson upon
the instruction of the chairperson. Prior to the Seimas's
approval of a committee chairperson, sittings shall be presided
over by the eldest member of the committee. In committee
sittings, including closed sittings, members of the Seimas who
are not members of the committee may participate with the right
of deliberative vote. The participation of other persons in
committee sittings shall be established by the respective
committee.
Article 119. For the preparation of issues under
consideration committees may, from their members, form
preparatory work groups. Included in these work groups may be
other Seimas members, representatives of state institutions and
social organizations, experts and scholars, upon the consent
thereof. Funds for the activities of such groups shall be
allotted from an approved estimate of expenditure of the
committee. If funds are not sufficient, the committee shall apply
to the Seimas Board.
Several committees may form joint preparatory work groups.
Article 120. Committee resolutions shall be deemed lawful
when more than half of the committee members are present at the
sitting.
Committee resolutions shall be adopted by open, simple
majority vote of the committee members participating in the
sitting.
If the committee minority, which consists of at least
three Seimas members, expresses a separate opinion concerning an
issue discussed by the committee, this opinion must be announced
together with the decision of the committee.
Decisions shall be adopted in joint sittings of several
committees if each committee expresses their support for the
decision.
Article 121. Committees shall make reports during sittings
of the Seimas on issues which they prepared or which, upon being
examined, were principle, and shall make supplemental reports on
issues which were referred to them for preliminary or
supplementary examination. For this purpose, committees shall
appoint, from among their members, speakers or supplementary
speakers. In cases of exception and if the Seimas does not
object, the speaker does not have to be a member of the
committee. Committee members shall participate in discussions on
all other issues according to general procedure.
Concerning issues which were jointly prepared and examined
by several committees, committees may either make joint reports
and joint supplementary reports or may present observations and
proposals separately.
Committee resolutions and conclusions shall be presented to
the Seimas in writing.
Chapter 10.
Seimas Commissions
Article 62. A standing permanently-functioning Commission on
Ethics and Procedure shall be formed in the Seimas to which each
parliamentary group shall recommend one representative. If a
parliamentary group expresses disagreement with the proposed
candidacy, another member of that parliamentary group shall be
recommended. Upon rejecting two proposed candidacies of the same
parliamentary group in such a manner, the third shall become a
commission member without approval from the Seimas.
Article 62-1. The trend of activities of the Commission on
Ethics and Procedure shall be:
1) to prepare drafts of legal acts and proposals which
are related to the activities and ethics of Seimas members;
2) in observance of ethic regulations, to help the Seimas,
Seimas subdivisions, and Seimas members foster democracy; to
coordinate various points of view and convictions; to strive for
moral harmony; and to humanize relations between Seimas members;
3) to supervise the observance of the Statute of the Seimas
of the Republic of Lithuania and other legal acts which regulate
the activities of Seimas members. Upon the proposal of the
Chairperson of the Seimas, deputy chairpersons of the Seimas,
chairpersons of committees or commissions, or other Seimas
members, or on its own initiative, to examine violations of these
legal acts or ethics, to consider conflicts which arise between
Seimas members, and, if necessary, to present conclusions to the
Seimas, the Seimas Chairperson, or the Seimas Board;
4) To examine and present conclusions concerning procedural
disagreements upon the instruction of the Seimas, the Seimas
Chairperson, or the Seimas Board;
5) from an ethical standpoint, to consider and present
conclusions concerning proposed candidacies to posts which are
appointed, elected, or approved by the Seimas;
6) to examine information presented by the Procurator
General of the Republic of Lithuania concerning personal
activities of Seimas members which contradict the laws of the
Republic of Lithuania, and to present conclusions to the Seimas
thereon;
7) to analyze the reasons for which Seimas members are not
participating in sittings of the Seimas and their respective
subdivisions and to provide information to the press concerning
Seimas members who have missed sittings without just reason, who
did not participate in voting which was announced beforehand, or
who did not carry out instructions; and
8) to examine the letters and proposals of citizens, state
institutions, and social organizations on issues concerning the
activities of Seimas members.
Article 62.-2 In the Seimas a standing administrative
commission shall be formed dealing with working and living
conditions of the Seimas members and other matters relative
thereto.
Administrative commission shall be formed according to the
provisions set forth in Article 63 of this Statute.
The Seimas Chancellor shall be on this commission and shall
head it ex officio.
Article 62.-3 The Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania,
having acknowledged the necessity to do so, may form research,
control, auditing, preparatory, editing, and other temporary
commissions to investigate or prepare any given issue or to carry
out other assignments of the Seimas.
If a commission's authorization period is not clearly
defined during the time of formation, the activities of the
commission shall be discontinued by a resolution of the Seimas
once the given tasks have been carried out.
Inter-parliamentary relations groups and parliamentary
delegations in international organizations and forums shall be
formed in the same way as temporary commissions and shall have
the same rights thereof.
Article 63. In forming a temporary commission, first the
number of members of the commission shall be established.
Thereafter, the norms for proportional representation of
parliamentary groups shall be established, as well as the term
for candidacy proposals of commissions members. If some
parliamentary groups do not express a wish to participate in the
work of the commission and the compiled list of committee members
is not sufficient, committees may each orally propose one
additional candidate during the sitting, and after them each
Seimas member may do so until the number of candidates is
sufficient.
Each of the proposed candidates must give oral consent to
participate in the work of the commission; if the candidate is
not participating in the sitting, he or she must give written
consent to participate in the work of the commission. The Seimas
shall vote for the entire list of commission members formed in
such a way. If the list is not approved, the procedure shall be
repeated.
When candidates are nominated to a commission during a
Seimas sitting not according to the norms allocated to
parliamentary group, those for whom at least two Seimas members
express doubt shall be voted for individually. If the number of
candidates nominated to a commission during a sitting is greater
than the established number of commission members and all of the
nominated candidates agree to work in the commission, there shall
be an open-ballot vote with the list of candidates.
In certain cases, the Seimas may establish another procedure
for the formation of commissions, although commissions may never
be formed by representatives of one parliamentary group or one
region.
Article 64. If the term of office of a commission is more
than a month, a commission chairperson and deputy chairperson
shall be elected and approved according to the procedure
established for the committees. The chairperson and deputy
chairperson of a commission may not be members of the Seimas
Board, members of the Government, or chairpersons or deputy
chairpersons of any other commission or committee. This
restriction is not applicable to inter-parliamentary relations
groups or parliamentary delegations.
As a rule, the Seimas shall commission the Board to approve
the estimate of expenditure of a commission and to resolve other
issues which are related to its activities.
Article 65. If the Seimas does not resolve otherwise,
commissions, during their period of authorization, shall observe
the rules of committee procedure. If the authorization period of
a commission is longer than one month, it shall have all of the
rights and duties of a committee, with the exception of the right
to nominate candidates in elections of Seimas officials, to
demand that they be cancelled, to present interpellations, and to
express non-confidence in a given official.
Ceslovas Jursenas
Chairperson
Seimas
Republic of Lithuania