REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
LAW
ON COMING INTO FORCE OF THE LAW ON
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
1. To abolish the Department of Environmental Protection of
the Republic of Lithuania from 15 June 1994.
2. To found the Ministry of Environmental Protection from 15
June 1994.
3. Material resources belonging to the Department of
Environmental Protection of the Republic of Lithuania, as well as
allocations and financial resources provided for in the State
budget prior to 1 July 1994, must be transferred to the Ministry
of Environmental Protection of the Republic of Lithuania. To
propose the Government to set up a commission for the execution
of this transference.
4. The Government of the Republic of Lithuania must approve
the regulations of the Ministry of Environmental Protection of
the Republic of Lithuania prior to 1 September 1994. Until the
regulations are approved, but no later than 1 September 1994, the
Ministry of Environmental Protection of the Republic of Lithuania
shall perform functions which have been assigned to the
Department of Environmental Protection according to the Law on
Environmental Protection of the Republic of Lithuania, and shall
wield the powers assigned to this department, with the exception
of those powers which are specified in Articles 5 and 6 and items
4 and 11 of Article 9 of this Law.
5. To reorganize from the day of enforcement of the Law on
the Government of the Republic of Lithuania the Ministry of
Culture and Education of the Republic of Lithuania into the
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania and the Ministry
of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania. The
Government of the Republic of Lithuania must approve the
regulations of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of
Lithuania and the Ministry of Education and Science prior to 1
August 1994.
6. To reorganize from the day of enforcement of the Law on
the Ministry of Social Security of the Republic of Lithuania into
the Ministry of Social Security and Labour of the Republic of
Lithuania. The Government of the Republic of Lithuania must
approve the regulations of the Ministry of Social Security and
Labour of the Republic of Lithuania prior to 1 August 1994.
7. To found the Ministry of Public Administration Reforms
and Local Government Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania from 1
July 1994, not exceeding the funds appropriated for the state
administration. The Government of the Republic of Lithuania must
approve the regulations of the Ministry of Public Administration
Reforms and Local Government Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania
prior to 1 August 1994.
8. The Government of the Republic of Lithuania must approve
the work regulations of the Government of the Republic of
Lithuania prior to 1 August 1994.
9. To propose to the Government of the Republic of Lithuania
to reorganize now functioning Ministries and governmental
institutions according to the stipulations of the Law on the
Government of the Republic of Lithuania.
10. To declare invalid the following:
Law of the Republic of Lithuania No.I-61 on the Government
of 3 April 1990 (Zin., 1990, No.11-330);
Law of the Republic of Lithuania No.I-108 on the Amendments
of the Law on the Government of the Republic of Lithuania of 3
April 1990 (Zin., 1990, No.11-347);
Articles 1, 3 and 5 of Law of the Republic of Lithuania
No.I-112 on State Bodies accountable to the Supreme Council of
the Republic of Lithuania (Zin., 1990, No.11-352);
Law of the Republic of Lithuania No.I-139 on the Supplement
to the Law on the Government of the Republic of Lithuania of 11
April 1990 (Zin., 1990, No.12-368);
Law of the Republic of Lithuania No.I-373 on the Department
of Environmental Protection of 13 July 1990 (Zin., 1990, No.21-
526) - from 1 September 1994;
Resolution of the Supreme Council of the Republic of
Lithuania No.I-374 on the Procedure for Enactment of the Law of
the Republic of Lithuania on the Department of Environmental
Protection of 31 July 1990 (Zin., 1990, No.21-527);
Law of the Republic of Lithuania No.I-382 on the Amendment
of the Law on the Government of the Republic of Lithuania of 17
July 1990 (Zin., 1990, No.21-529);
Law of the Republic of Lithuania No.I-693 on the Amendment
of some Articles of the Law on the Government of the Republic of
Lithuania of 23 October 1990 (Zin., 1990, No.31-753);
Law of the Republic of Lithuania No.I-922 on the Amendment
of Article 9 of the Law on the Government of the Republic of
Lithuania of 9 January 1991 (Zin., 1991, No.2-45);
Law of the Republic of Lithuania No.I-979 on the Amendment
and the Supplement to the Law on the Government of the Republic
of Lithuania of 22 January 1991 (Zin., 1991, No.4-109);
Law of the Republic of Lithuania No.I-1628 on the Amendment
of Article 4 of the Law on the Government of the Republic of
Lithuania of 30 July 1991 (Zin., 1991, No.23-598);
Law of the Republic of Lithuania No.I-1795 on the Supplement
to Article 19 of the Law on the Government of the Republic of
Lithuania of 12 September 1991 (Zin., 1991, No.27-737);
Article 4 of Law of the Republic of Lithuania No.I-1858 on
the Amendment of the Law on the Government of the Republic of
Lithuania of 3 October 1991 (Zin., 1991, No.29-792);
Article 2 of Law of the Republic of Lithuania No.I-2814 on
Reorganizing the Ministry of Trade and Material Supply of the
Republic of Lithuania into the Ministry of Industry and Trade of
the Republic of Lithuania of 30 July 1992 (Zin., 1992, No.24-
700); and
Law of the Republic of Lithuania No.I-3070 on the Amendment
of Article 19 of the Law on the Government of the Republic of
Lithuania of 19 November 1992 (Zin., 1992, No.34-1034).
I promulgate this Law enacted by the Seimas of the Republic
of Lithuania.
President of the Republic Algirdas Brazauskas
31 May 1994, No.I-486
Vilnius
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