The resolution published in: Valstybės žinios (Official Gazette) No 74-3157, 2002 Oficialus vertimas 2007 12 18 The resolution published in: Valstybės žinios (Official Gazette) No 74-3157, 2002 Unofficial text of the resolution Government of the REpublic of Lithuania RESOLUTION No 1158 of 17 July 2002 ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE REGISTER OF CONTRACTS AND ON THE APPROVAL OF THE REGULATIONS OF THE REGISTER OF CONTRACTS Vilnius (As amended by Resolution No 562 of 6 June 2007) Pursuant to Article 6 of the Law on State Registers of the Republic of Lithuania (Valstybės žinios (Official Gazette) No 86-2043, 1996; No 124-4488, 2004), the Government of the Republic of Lithuania has resolved:
- To establish the Register of Contracts.
- To approve the Regulations of the Register of Contracts. Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas Minister of Justice Vytautas Markevičius __________________ The new version of the amendment to the Resolution is valid from 17 June 2007: No 562, Valstybės žinios (Official Gazette), 2007, No 67-2612 (16 June 2007) APPROVED by Resolution No 1158 of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania of 17 July 2002 (as amended by Resolution No 562 of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania of 6 June 2007) REGULATIONS OF THE REGISTER OF CONTRACTS I. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- The Regulations of the Register of Contracts (hereinafter referred to as “the Regulations”) shall regulate the purpose and objects of the Register of Contracts (hereinafter referred to as “the Register”), the institutions of the Register management, their rights, duties and functions, management of the Register data, interaction with other registers, the security of the Register data and its provision and transfer to foreign states, as well as funding, reorganization and liquidation of the Register.
- The purpose of the Register is to register the Register objects specified in paragraph 3 of the Regulations and to collect, accumulate, process, systemize, keep and provide data about the contracts specified in paragraph 3 of the Regulations in accordance with the procedure established in the legislation.
- Pursuant to Articles 6.411, 6.417 and 6.572 of the Civil Code of the Republic of Lithuania (Valstybės žinios (Official Gazette) No 74-2262, 2000), the Register objects shall be contracts of instalment sale in respect of any thing not subject to registration, which is acquired for the provision of services or operation of an enterprise (hereinafter referred to as “contracts of instalment sale”), contracts of sale with the right of redemption in respect of any thing not subject to registration, which is purchased for the provision of services or operation of an enterprise (hereinafter referred to as “contracts of sale with the right of redemption”), and leasing (financial lease) contracts whose subject matter is a thing not subject to registration, which is intended for commercial purposes (hereinafter referred to as “leasing contracts”), which are hereinafter referred to as “the contracts.” The contracts made following the start of the operation of the Register shall be registered in the Register. When amendments of the contracts made prior to the start of the operation of the Register are registered, a notification on the made contract shall be presented together with the notification on the amendments of the contract.
- Personal data shall be managed with the aim to collect, accumulate, process, systemize, keep and provide thorough and correct information about the Register objects.
- The Register data shall be accumulated in a single data base.
- The Register data providers shall be the parties of the contracts subject to registration in the Register. Data about the contracts made, amendments to them or their expiry shall be provided to the Register by one of the parties to a contract.
- The Register shall be managed in accordance with the Civil Code of the Republic of Lithuania, the Law on State Registers of the Republic of Lithuania (Valstybės žinios (Official Gazette) No 86-2043, 1996; No 124-4488, 2004), the Law on Legal Protection of Personal Data of the Republic of Lithuania (Valstybės žinios (Official Gazette) No 63-1479, 1996; No 15-597, 2003), other laws, the Regulations and other legislation governing the activities of state registers. The main terms used in the Regulations correspond to the terms used in the Civil Code of the Republic of Lithuania, the Law on the State Registers of the Republic of Lithuania and other legislation. II. the REGISTER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTIONS
- The Ministry of Justice shall be the leading Register management institution (hereinafter referred to as “the leading Register management institution), which shall: 8.
- methodically direct the Register management institution and carry out the supervision of its work in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Lithuania; 8.
- pass legislative acts related to the Register management and the Register data security; 8.
- adopt the forms of notifications and applications submitted to the Register; 8.
- adopt the forms of notifications issued by the Register; 8.
- carry out the supervision of compliance with the requirements of the Register data security; 8.
- examine and summarize the proposals of the Register management institution regarding the improvement of the operation of the Register; 8.
- ensure that the Register is managed in accordance with the Civil Code of the Republic of Lithuania, the Law on the State Registers of the Republic of Lithuania, the Regulations and other legislation; 8.
- control the implementation of the annual and long-term budgets of the Register; 8.
- deal with the Register modernization and development issues; 8.
- perform other functions and actions prescribed by the Regulations, the Law on State Registers of the Republic of Lithuania, and the Law on Legal Protection of Personal Data of the Republic of Lithuania.
- The Central Mortgage Office shall be the Register management institution (hereinafter referred to as “ the Register management institution”), which shall perform the following functions: 9.
- register contracts of instalment sale, contracts of sale with the right of redemption and leasing agreements by entering their data into the Register’s data base and assigning an identification code to them; 9.
- register amendments to contracts of instalment sale, contracts of sale with the right of redemption and leasing agreements; 9.
- remove contracts of instalment sale, contracts of sale with the right of redemption and leasing agreements from the Register; 9.
- after registering a contract or its amendment or removing it from the Register, issue a notification about the registration of the contract or its amendment in the Register or its removal from the Register, except when contracts are removed from the Register in accordance with paragraph 34 of the Regulations; 9.
- accumulate, manage, update and keep the Register data; 9.
- correct errors in the Register data and inform the persons concerned about that in writing; 9.
- ensure security of the Register data and documents; 9.
- provide the Register data according to the procedure established in the Regulations and other legislation; 9.
- put forward proposals to the leading Register management institution regarding to the Register management and the Register data security improvement; 9.
- manage the Register data archive; 9.
- provide statistical data of the Register; 9.
- perform other functions prescribed by the Regulations, the Law on State Registers of the Republic of Lithuania and the Law on Legal Protection of Personal Data of the Republic of Lithuania.
- The leading Register management institution shall be the holder of personal data, and the Register management institution shall be the manager of personal data.
- The Register management institution must ensure that: 11.
- the Register operates continuously; 11.
- the Register data corresponds to the data specified in the documents submitted to the Register management institution; 11.
- regularly updated data of relevant registers is used for data verification; 11.
- no incorrect or inaccurate data is entered while managing the Register; 11.
- incorrect, inaccurate or incomplete the Register data or the Register data changes are corrected, updated or supplemented without delay in accordance with the procedure set in the Regulations; 11.
- the Register data recipients that receive incorrect, inaccurate or incomplete Register data are informed about the corrections made; 11.
- the Register is managed in compliance with the Regulations and other legislation.
- The Register management institution shall have the right: 12.
- to demand from the Register data providers that the Register data, its amendments and documents are drawn up appropriately, submitted in time and correspond to the data of the related registers; 12.
- to give the data provider a term to eliminate defects when the Register management institution establishes that the data or documents submitted to the Register are inaccurate or do not comply with the requirements set by the legislation; 12.
- to establish the principles and procedure of the Register work organization; 12.
- to perform other actions that are not covered in the Regulations. III. the REGISTER DATA
- The Register shall accumulate and manage data about contracts by specifying the identification code of a Register object along with the following data: 13.
- for contracts of instalment sale: 13.1.
- the date of making the contract; 13.1.
- the number of the contract; 13.1.
- the parties to the contract (code, name, surname and place of residence of a natural person; if the natural person is not registered in the Residents Register of the Republic of Lithuania, the date of birth, name, surname and place of residence; a legal person’s code or registration number, a foreign state where the legal person is registered if the legal person is registered outside the Republic of Lithuania, the name and the office); 13.1.
- the date and time of the registration of the contract or its amendment; 13.1.
- the subject-matter of the contract; 13.1.
- the moment when the ownership passes to the buyer; 13.1.
- the deadline for settlement; 13.1.
- the basis and date of a data change; 13.1.
- the basis, date and time of the removal of the contract from the Register; 13.1.
- other information; 13.
- for a contract of sale with the right of redemption: 13.2.
- the date of making the contract; 13.2.
- the number of the contract; 13.2.
- the parties to the contract (code, name, surname and place of residence of a natural person; if the natural person is not registered in the Residents’ Register of the Republic of Lithuania –the date of birth, name, surname and place of residence; a legal person’s code or registration number, a foreign state where the legal person is registered if the legal person is registered outside the Republic of Lithuania, the name and the office); 13.2.
- the date and time when the contract or its amendment was registered; 13.2.
- the subject-matter of the contract; 13.2.
- the term of the right of redemption; 13.2.
- the date and time of the registration of the wish to exercise the right of redemption; 13.2.
- the date and time of the registration of the revocation of the wish to exercise the right of redemption; 13.2.
- the basis and date of a data change; 13.2.
- the basis, date and time of the removal of the contract from the Register; 13.2.
- other information; 13.
- for a leasing agreement: 13.3.
- the date of making the contract; 13.3.
- the number of the contract; 13.3.
- the parties to the contract (the code, name, surname and place of residence of a natural person; if the natural person is not registered in the Residents’ Register of the Republic of Lithuania, the date of birth, name, surname and place of residence; a legal person’s code or registration number, a foreign state where the legal person is registered if the legal person is registered outside the Republic of Lithuania, the name and the office); 13.3.
- the date and time of the registration of the contract or its amendment; 13.3.
- the subject-matter of the contract; 13.3.
- the moment when the ownership passes to the lessee; 13.3.
- the deadline for settlement; 13.3.
- the basis and date of a data change; 13.3.
- the basis, date and time of the removal of the contract from the Register; 13.3.
- other information.
- After registering the contract in the register, it shall be assigned an identification code, consisting of 11 characters. The first, second, third and fourth characters of the code shall represent the year when the contract was registered in the Register; the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh characters shall represent the serial number in the Register.
- When data about natural and legal persons that are registered in the Residents’ Register or the Register of Legal Persons of the Republic of Lithuania is entered in the Register, the identification code assigned by the respective registers shall be used. The data classifications used by the Register to classify the Register object shall be the following: 15.
- the classification of the Register objects specified in paragraph 3 of the Regulations; 15.
- the classification of the amendments to (removal from the Register) of contracts of instalment sale, contracts of sale with the right of redemption and leasing contracts; 15.
- the classification of the moment when ownership passes to the lessee (buyer) (by entering data on leasing contracts and contracts of instalment sale). The requirements for identification of legal persons that are not registered in the Register of Legal Persons shall be established by the leading Register management institution. The leading Register management institution shall also establish the requirements for the description of the contract subject-matter. IV. REGISTRATION OF the REGISTER OBJECTS
- Data about the made contracts, their amendments and expiry (termination) shall be entered into the Register from the notifications provided to the Register by the Register data providers.
- Only the civil servants or employees of the Register management institution (hereinafter referred to as “the employees”) shall have the right to enter data into or correct errors in the Register in accordance with the procedure established by the laws of the Republic of Lithuania and the Regulations.
- The Register data providers shall: 18.
- provide data for the Register in accordance with the procedure established by the laws of the Republic of Lithuania and the Regulations; 18.
- having familiarized themselves with the data kept in the Register which they have provided, request correction of incorrect data or supplementation of incomplete data; 18.
- having received information that provided data is incorrect, correct it and transfer the corrected data to the Register.
- The Register data provider shall submit a notification in the form established by the leading Register management institution (hereinafter referred to as “the notification of the standard form”) about a concluded contract in person or electronically or send it by post to the Register management institution. The received notification of the standard from shall be registered in the electronic journal of received documents, where it shall be assigned a serial number of the journal of the received documents. The data contained by the notification of the standard form shall be verified and entered into the data base of the Register and the contracts shall be registered within five workdays from the receipt of the notification.
- The contract shall be treated as registered when an employee of the Register management institution enters registration data into the data base and assigns an identification code to the Register object.
- After registering the contract, the notification about the registration of the contract shall be drafted in the Register and delivered to the Register data provider in person or electronically or sent to it by post.
- If the required data is not specified in the notification of the standard form or it is inaccurate, registration of the contract shall be refused and the notification about the refusal to register data in the Register along with the related reasons shall be delivered to the Register data provider in person or electronically or sent to it by post without delay but no later than within five days.
- A fee of the amount set by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania shall be paid for the registration of the contract in the Register. In those cases when the Register data provider submits the notification about the contract made in person or sends it by post to the Register management institution, a document attesting the payment of a fee of the set amount for that service must be attached. If data on made contracts is provided electronically, the procedure of payment for the registration of the contracts shall be established in the agreement on the provision of data to the Register of Contracts electronically.
- Amendments and expiry (termination) of the contract shall be reported by the data provider. If the contract amendments or expiry (termination) are reported by the lessee or the buyer, the notification about the contract amendments or expiry (termination) must also be signed by the lessor or seller.
- After the contract is amended or expires (is terminated) the notification of the standard form about the amendment or expiry (termination) of the contract shall be delivered to the Register management institution in person or electronically or sent by post. Once a notification of the standard form on the expiry (termination) of the contract is received, the contract shall be removed from the Register. If the notification of the standard form does not contain the required data or the data is inaccurate, the data provider shall, in accordance with the procedure set in paragraph 22 of the Regulations, be notified of the refusal to register the data in the Register, specifying the reasons why it was not registered. The notification of the standard form must indicate the identification code of the contract an amendment to which is to be registered or which is to be removed from the Register. The received notification of the standard form shall be registered in the electronic journal of received documents, where it is assigned a serial number of the journal of received documents. A contract amendment shall be registered or a contract removed from the Register within five days from the receipt of a notification of the standard form.
- After registering the contract amendment or removing the contract from the Register, the notification about the registration of the contract amendment or removal of the contract from the Register shall be drafted and, within 3 workdays, delivered to the Register data provider in person or electronically or sent by post.
- If the required data is not specified in the notification of the standard form or is inaccurate, registration of the contract amendment or removal of the contract from the Register shall be refused, and the data provider shall be informed in accordance with the procedure set in paragraph 22 of the Regulations that the contract amendment has not been registered in the Register or that the contract has not been removed from the Register due to incompletion or inaccuracy of data. If the contract has been removed from the Register in accordance with the procedure established in the Regulations and the notification of the standard form to register an amendment of that the contract is submitted, registration of the amendment shall be refused. In such cases, the data provider must once again submit the notification of the standard form on the conclusion of the contract along with every amendment to it.
- The notification of the standard form about a wish to exercise the right of redemption submitted by the seller shall be registered in the electronic journal of received documents, where it is assigned a serial number of the journal of received documents. A wish to exercise the right of redemption shall be registered within five workdays from the receipt of the notification of the standard form. After registering a wish to exercise the right of redemption, the notification about its registration in the Register shall be drafted and, within three workdays, delivered in person or electronically or sent by post to the Register data provider.
- Having established that incorrect data was provided to the Register, the Register management institution shall immediately inform the Register data provider about that so that the error in the Register could be corrected.
- After the Register data provider provides the corrected data, the Register management institution shall correct the error in the Register within three workdays. After the error is corrected, the persons who received incorrect data shall be informed within three workdays.
- If the data entered into the Register does not correspond to the factual data through the fault of the Register management institution, the Register management institution must correct the error without delay and inform all the recipients of the Register data which have received the incorrect data.
- A person whose data is entered in the Register, having familiarized itself with its data managed in the Register, shall have the right to request correction of incorrect or completion of incomplete data as well as removal of unnecessary or illegally collected data.
- Within three days from the receipt of the request and of the documents confirming the facts specified therein, the Register management institution must correct the specified inaccuracies and inform the requesting person about that.
- Contracts of instalment sale and leasing contracts shall be automatically removed from the Register after one year from the deadline for settlement. Contracts of sale with the right of redemption shall be automatically removed from the Register after five years from the day of registering the contract in the Register.
- Once the Register data provider submits a request of the standard form not to remove the contract from the Register automatically, the contract shall be removed from the Register only after receiving the notification on the expiry (termination) of the contract, except for the cases when the later contract amendment specifies a new deadline for settlement, on the basis of which the contract shall be removed from the Register in accordance with the procedure established in the Regulations.
- A fee of the amount set by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania shall be charged for the registration of the contract amendment or the registration of a request not to remove the contract from the Register automatically, a wish to exercise the right of redemption, or a revocation of a wish to exercise the right of redemption. In those cases when the Register data provider delivers the notification of the standard form on the amendment of the contract made, a request not to remove the contract from the Register automatically, a wish to exercise the right of redemption or the revocation of a wish to exercise the right of redemption to the Register management institution in person or sends it by post, a document attesting the payment of a fee of the set amount for the service must be attached. If data is provided electronically, the procedure of payment of the fee for the registration of the contract amendment, a request not to remove the contract from the Register automatically, a wish to exercise the right of redemption or the revocation of a wish to exercise the right of redemption shall be specified in the agreement on the provision of data to the Register of Contracts electronically. The contract shall be removed from the Register free of charge.
- Data about the contracts removed from the Register shall be transferred to the archive for safekeeping for the period of 10 years.
- The persons involved in the Register data management must protect data secrecy for the period prescribed by the laws and other legislation of the Republic of Lithuania.
- Legal, administrative, organizational, technical and other measures shall be used to ensure that no incorrect, inaccurate or incomplete data is entered in the course of the Register management and that the Register data corresponds to that contained by the registration documents. V. INTERACTION WITH OTHER REGISTERS
- For the management of the Register objects, the data of the Residents Register of the Republic of Lithuania shall be used to verify data on natural persons and the data of the Register of Legal Persons shall be used to verify data on legal persons.
- Interaction with each register shall be defined in a data provision (exchange) agreement.
- If it is established that the data received from a relevant register differs from the data provided by the Register data providers or other inaccuracies of the data received from a relevant register are found, the register management institution of the relevant register shall be informed about the noticed inaccuracies of the data it has provided without delay and incorrect, inaccurate or incomplete data together with the explanation of the circumstances shall be transferred to it without delay.
- The Register management institution that receives information on the established inaccuracies of the data transferred to it and the explanations of the circumstances from a relevant register, must verify the provided information and, if it is found to be true, correct the inaccuracies within three workdays. This term shall be extended to 30 days when the Register management institution has to contact the Register data provider regarding the correction of the inaccuracies. After correcting the inaccuracies in the Register data, the Register management institution shall immediately inform the register management institution of the relevant register and the recipients of Register data to whom incorrect, inaccurate or incomplete data was transferred. VI. PROVISION AND USE OF the REGISTER DATA
- The Register data shall be provided in the following ways: 44.
- by electronic transfer; 44.
- by submitting notifications on the contract registration, notifications about the registration of the contract amendment in the Register, notifications about the removal of the contract from the Register, notifications about entering into the Register of the data of a request not to remove the contract from the Register automatically, notifications about a wish to exercise the right of redemption or the revocation of the wish to exercise the right of redemption; 44.
- by providing the following extracts from the Register: 44.3.
- thorough information consisting of all the relevant data of a Register object (paragraph 13 of the Regulations); 44.3.
- a summary of the Register data consisting of the data identifying the Register object; 44.
- by providing information collections (summaries) to order; 44.
- by viewing data on a computer screen.
- The Register extracts, whose forms are established in paragraphs 44.3.1 and 44.3.2 of the Regulations may be provided in writing, electronically or by other means of communications. A specific form of the Register data provision shall be established in the Rules of Registration of the Register Objects adopted by the leading Register management institution.
- Natural and legal persons shall be charged a fee for the provision of data the amount and the procedure of payment of which shall be established by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. The Register management institution shall provide data free of charge in the cases specified by the Law on State Registers of the Republic of Lithuania and the Regulations. The Register data required for the performance of the direct functions of state and municipal institutions shall be provided free of charge.
- The Register data shall be public. A person willing to obtain an extract from the Register must submit a written application in person or electronically or send it by post to the Register management institution, specifying the following data: the name and surname (the code and name of a legal person) and address of the applicant, the purpose of applying for data, one of the documents specified in paragraph 50 of the Regulations, and the way of obtaining data. A received application shall be registered in the journal of received applications and marked with a stamp specifying the serial number in the journal of received applications and the date when the application was received.
- Data must be provided in the written form (sent by post, electronically or other means of communication or delivered in person) within three workdays from the receipt of a written application by the Register management institution. Data shall be viewed on a computer screen without delay and free of charge.
- Data shall be provided electronically in accordance with an agreement between the Register management institution and the Register data recipients. The agreements must indicate the purpose of obtaining data.
- The Register data shall be provided according to: 50.
- the identification code of the contract; 50.
- the personal code of a lessee or buyer, and if the natural person is not registered in the Residents Register of the Republic of Lithuania – according to the name, surname and date of birth; the code of a legal person, and if the legal person is not registered in the Register of Legal Persons – according to the code or registration number of the legal person as well as the name of the country in which the legal person is registered; 50.
- the identification number of a legal person that is not registered in the Register of Legal Persons and was identified in accordance with the procedure set by the leading Register management institution.
- Every natural person whose data is entered in the Register shall have the right to access his personal data managed at the Register after having submitted an application and an identification document. The submitted application must contain the following data: the name, surname and address of the natural person applying for data, one of the data items specified in paragraph 50 of the Regulations, the purpose of obtaining data and the way of obtaining data. The received application shall be registered and the data provided in accordance with the procedure specified in the Regulations. Once a calendar year, such data shall be provided by the Register management institution to a natural person free of charge.
- The Register data shall not be announced.
- The Register management institution’s website shall offer information about the Register object and purposes, the Register management institutions, the Register management, persons’ right to access their data managed at the Register, the procedure of correcting incorrect, inaccurate or incomplete data, the Register data providers, the Register data recipients, the method of providing the list of documents and data provided to the Register as well as the amount thereof. VII. TRANsfer of the REgister DATA to Foreign States
- The Register data shall be provided to the legal and natural persons of the states of the European Economic Area as well as to company branches and representative offices established in those states in accordance with the same procedure that applies to the legal and natural persons of the Republic of Lithuania as well as to the branches and representative offices of the European Economic Area states established in the Republic of Lithuania.
- The Register data shall be provided to the legal and natural persons of third countries in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Lithuania and the international agreements and other legislation of the Republic of Lithuania. viii. SECURITY OF the REGISTER DATA
- The Register data security shall be the responsibility of the Register management institution. The specific Register data security measures shall be established in the Regulations of The Register Data Security adopted by the leading Register management institution.
- Personal data shall be managed pursuant to the Law on Legal Protection of Personal Data of the Republic of Lithuania, other legislation as well as the guidelines of the State Data Protection Inspectorate.
- The Register Management Institution shall choose organizational and technical security measures for the Register data in accordance with the type of data and the risks posed by its management. The Register data must be protected from accidental or unlawful destruction, disclosure, change and any other unlawful handling.
- Administrative, organizational, technical, programme and other measures shall be prescribed in accordance with the General Data Protection Requirements approved by Resolution No 952 of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania of 4 September 1997 (Valstybės žinios (Official Gazette) No 83-2075, 1997; No 2-45, 2003) and other legislation on data security. These measures shall be prescribed by the leading Register management institution.
- The measures of the Register data security must cover: 60.
- limited access to the premises of the Register institution for the Register data providers and recipients as well as other persons; 60.
- a hierarchic system of access to the Register data for employees managing the Register data; 60.
- a depository for the information systems and copies of the Register data base; 60.
- resumption of the operation of the information system of the Register in the cases of data damage or destruction.
- Software measures of the Register data security must comply with the following requirements: 61.
- perform unique identification of every Register data recipient and employee handling the Register data; 61.
- ensure a password system; 61.
- register all computer operations of the Register data management and attempts to perform them; 61.
- ensure the invulnerability of the Register data to system and application software;
- The technical measures of the Register data security must prevent information leakage as well as distortion in computer workplaces as well as in communication lines.
- The employees of the Register management institution who violate the requirements of the Republic of Lithuania laws, the Regulations or other legislation shall be liable in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Lithuania. iX. the REGISTER FUNDING
- The Register shall be financed from the State Budget of the Republic of Lithuania and from the revenues received by the Register management institution for the services provided. X. REORGANIZATION AND LIQUIDATION OF THE REGISTER
- The Register shall be reorganized and liquidated according to the procedure established by the Law on State Registers of the Republic of Lithuania and in the order determined by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania.
- The data of a liquidated or reorganized state register shall be transferred to another register, destroyed or transferred to the state archives in accordance with the procedure prescribed in the Law on Documents and Archives of the Republic of Lithuania (Valstybės žinios (Official Gazette) No 107-2389, 1995; No 57-1982, 2004). _______________