Republic of Lithuania Law on MANAGEMENT OF STATE INFORMATION RESOURCES 15 December 2011 No XI-1807 Vilnius CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS Article 1. Scope, Aim and Purpose of the Law 1. The aim of this Law shall be to ensure proper creation, management, disposal, use, supervision, interaction, planning, financing, and protection of the state information resources. 2. This Law shall establish: 1) types of the state information resources; 2) formation and implementation of the state information resources policy; 3) activities of the State Information Resources Management Council and authorised persons of data management; 4) rights, duties, and responsibility of the managers of registers and state information systems, administrators of registers and state information systems, natural and legal persons of the Republic of Lithuania, natural and legal persons of the EU member states and (or) European Economic Area states, entities not having the status of a legal person, their branches and representative offices providing data, information, documents and (or) their copies to and receiving it from the registers and state information systems; 5) main principles for creation and management of the state information resources; 6) planning of creation and management of the state information resources; 7) interaction platform of the state information resources; 8) assessment of management and protection of information technology tools used to process information managed by the institution while performing its statutory functions; 9) financing of expenses incurred during the creation, management and supervision of the state information resources. 3. This Law shall be applicable to the state institutions, state agencies, state enterprises, public establishments, which establish, create and (or) manage state registers (cadastres) (hereinafter referred to as a “state register“), departmental registers, state information systems and other information systems, are financed from the state budget, the State Social Insurance Fund budget, the Compulsory Health Insurance Fund budget and other state monetary funds, and are authorized to perform public administration in accordance with the procedure provided for in the Republic of Lithuania Law on Public Administration. Articles 8, 10, and 11 (with the exception of subparagraphs 2 and 3 of paragraph 3 of Article 11 of this Law), 1 paragraph of Article 12, Articles 13, 14, 30–37, 39–44 shall be applied to state and municipal institutions, municipal agencies and public establishments, which create other information technology tools used to process information managed by the state and municipal institutions, municipal agencies and public establishments performing functions set forth to them by legal acts, provided that expenses incurred while creating such information technology tools are financed from the state budget, the State Social Insurance Fund budget, the Compulsory Health Insurance Fund budget and other state monetary funds, or in case of processing information with information technology tools through the interaction of the state information systems or registers, it is necessary to receive data from the state information systems and (or) registers. Institutions, agencies and enterprises indicated in this paragraph shall hereinafter in this Law be referred to as institutions. 4. Institutions creating and managing information systems meant for internal administration shall be applied Article 3, paragraph 3 of Article 9, Article 10, subparagraphs 2 and 9 of paragraph 2 of Article 11, and Article 41. 5. Natural and legal persons of the EU member states and (or) European Economic Area states, entities not having the status of a legal person, their branches and representative offices providing data, information, documents and (or) their copies to and receiving it from the registers and state information systems shall be applied this Law in the same way as natural and legal persons of the Republic of Lithuania. 6. Personal data shall be processed in accordance with the Republic of Lithuania Law on Legal Protection of Personal Data (hereinafter referred to as the “Law on Legal Protection of Personal Data”). 7. State information resources regulated according to the special laws of the Republic of Lithuania and European Union legal acts shall be applied this Law to the extent the laws of the Republic of Lithuania and European Union legal acts do not provide otherwise. 8. This Law shall not be applied in cases when the state information resources are managed for the purposes of state security and defence, when it is necessary to safeguard the basic interests of the state security. 9. Prohibition of agreements regarding issuing exclusive rights is provided for in this Law in accordance with the European Union Directive referred to in the Annex to this Law. Article 2. Definitions 1. E-government shall mean the part of public administration aimed at improvement of public administration processes by applying information and communication technologies. 2. Management of information, data, documents and (or) their copies shall mean any actions performed with information, data, documents and (or) their copies: collection, recording, accumulation, storage, protection, classification, grouping, connecting, changing (supplementation or correction), provision, publication, logical and other operations, search, destruction and (or) other actions. 3. The integral system of registers (hereinafter referred to as the system of registers) shall mean the totality of interconnected registers. 4. Classifier shall mean the systematized list of the register or state information system objects or their groups (classes) that includes the names of these objects or their groups (classes), codes made according to a certain structure and definitions of features. 5. Reuse shall mean the use of information by persons for commercial or non-commercial purposes. 6. Register shall mean the totality of legal, organisational, technical and software measures intended for the registration of the register object and register data, register information, documents submitted to the register and (or) management and use of their copies. 7.  Register data shall mean the data associated with the register object collected from the data, information, documents and (or) their copies submitted to the register for the object registration, supplemented with the identification code of the register object, data of the associated register, and data of the registration procedures. 8. Register information shall mean the information associated with the register object and collected from the data, information, documents and (or) their copies (with the exception of the register data) submitted to the register. 9. Register object shall mean a registered person, activity, item, location of the item, the right in rem, restriction of the right, legal fact, document, territory, natural resources, cultural property, intellectual (industrial) property, communication measure and (or) other object. 10. Registration of the register object shall mean the assessment of data, information, documents and (or) their copies submitted for the object registration, taking of the decision to register the object, granting the identification code to the object of the register, compilation and recording of the register data and register information into the register data basis, supplementing the register data and register information with the data of the registration procedures and the data transmitted by the associated register, and issuing of the document , if such document is to be issued, confirming the registration fact of the register object in the register according to the cases and procedure provided for in the legal acts. 11. Administrator of the register shall mean the legal person which according to the regulations of the register is authorised to register the register object, administrate the register data, register information, documents and (or) their copies submitted to the register and be responsible for the protection of the register data and register information. 12. Manager of the register shall mean the ministry or another state institution or state agency within which sphere of management or area of activity the register is assigned and which methodologically directs the administrator of the register and coordinates the functioning of the register. 13. State information system shall mean the totality of legal, organisational, technical and software measures processing information necessary for the state institution (institutions) or the state agency (agencies) to perform their functions provided for in the legal acts, except for internal administration. 14. Manager of the state information system shall mean the ministry or another state institution or state agency that identifies the aims of the state information system and manages the state information system. 15. Administrator of the state information system shall mean the legal person authorised according to the regulations of the state information system to manage the data of the state information system and be responsible for their protection. 16. State information resources shall mean the totality of information managed by the institutions in performing their functions provided for in the laws and information technologies measures for processing this information. 17. Management of the state information resources shall mean identification of the aims of the state information resources creation, management, and development, organisation and control of their management and supervision, organisation and supervision of the activity of civil servants and (or) persons working under employment or professional military service contracts and processing information, documents and (or) their copies with information technology tools. 18. Interaction of the state information systems or registers shall mean reciprocal operation of state information systems or registers, i.e. transmission and use of data.   Article 3. Types of the state information resources State information resources shall be: 1) state information resources of critical importance. They are made up of information important for the entire State processed by the state information systems and the main state registers and of the state information systems and the main state registers processing this information; 2) important state information resources. They are made up of information important for several institutions processed by the state information systems and state registers and of the state information systems and state registers processing this information; 3) state information resources of departmental importance. They are made up of information important for one institution processed by the state information systems and departmental registers and of the state information systems and departmental registers processing this information; 4) other state information resources. They are comprised of information managed by the institution when performing internal administration functions and processed by other information systems as well as the information system processing this information. The procedure of establishment, creation, modernization and liquidation of the information systems referred to in this subparagraph shall be established by the institutions authorized by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania (hereinafter - the Government). CHAPTER II SHAPING AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE INFORMATION RESOURCES POLICY Article 4. Government Competence The Government shall: 1) define the priorities of the state information resources activities, development trends, performance targets and ways to achieve them; 2) determine improvement and development directions of information and communication technologies, recommended technical requirements (standards); 3) approve the description of information protection requirements, guidelines on the content of protection documents; 4) establish the importance evaluation procedure for the information indicated in paragraphs 1, 2, and 3 of Article 3 of this Law that comprises state information resources and approve the guidelines for the state information systems, registers and other information systems classification; 5) decide on a centralized purchase and application of information and communication technologies and (or) their services, grant the permission to an institution to perform the functions of the central contracting authority. Article 5. Shaping of the state information resources policy 1. The state information resources policy shall be formulated by the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Lithuania (hereinafter – the Ministry of Transport and Communications), Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Lithuania (hereinafter - the Ministry of Justice) and Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania (hereinafter - the Ministry of the Interior) within their competence. 2. The Ministry of Transport and Communications shall form the state information resources development policy and within its competence shall: 1) prepare and submit proposals to the Government on the priority activities in the area of state information resources, development trends, intended results and ways to achieve them, directions for information technologies improvement and development, recommended technical specifications (standards); 2) coordinate shaping of the state information resources policy; 3) coordinate institutions’ interdepartmental actions in their process of state information resources policy implementation; 4) carry out other functions prescribed by the laws and other legal acts of the Republic of Lithuania. 3. The Ministry of Justice shall be responsible for the register policy shaping and within its competence: 1) coordinate draft laws and other legal acts of the Republic of Lithuania regulating legal basis of register establishment; 2) coordinate provisions of draft register regulations related to the register object, its registration, register data, register information, management of documents and (or) their copies submitted to the register; 3) consult register managers, register administrators and other institutions regarding establishment of the registers; 4) submit proposals regarding the expediency of register establishment; 5) carry out other functions prescribed by the laws and other legal acts of the Republic of Lithuania. 4. The Ministry of the Interior shall form the policy of state information resources protection and information technologies application in the areas of public administration (e-Government) and within its competence shall: 1) organize the assessment of information technologies management and protection; 2) collect and analyze information on the protection of the state information resources managed by institutions and funds used for that purpose, submit to the Government and institutions proposals on the state information resources protection and required funding for protection of state information resources, as well as more efficient use of them; 3) prepare information protection requirements, guidelines on the content of protection documents; 4) perform the supervision of the compliance with the protection requirements; 5) coordinate draft legal acts on the state information systems, register data and register information protection, draft documents on protection; 6) coordinate provisions of draft regulations on state information systems and registers related to data and information protection; 7) advise managers of the state information systems and registers, administrators of the state information systems and registers, other institutions on the issues of state information resources protection; 8) establish the criteria for the information importance assessment, state information systems, registers and other information systems classification according to the importance of information processed by them and the procedure for their attribution to the appropriate category; 9) carry out other functions prescribed by the laws and other legal acts of the Republic of Lithuania. Article 6. Implementation of the state information resources policy 1. State information resources policy shall be implemented by the institution authorized by the Ministry of Transport and Communications and the State Data Protection Inspectorate. 2. The institution authorized by the Ministry of Transport and Communications shall be responsible for the functional compatibility, creation, management and development of state information resources and within its competence shall: 1) coordinate draft legal acts regulating establishment of state information systems, creation of state information systems and registers, functioning of state information systems and registers; 2) coordinate draft regulations of registers and state information systems, calendar schedules of register creation works, compliance of technical descriptions (specifications) with regulations, investment projects for creating and developing the registers technical and software tools; 3) plan disbursement of funds for state information resources development; 4) perform monitoring of establishment, creating and functioning of state information systems; 5) coordinate the processes of registers and state information systems creation and functioning, submit proposals regarding functionality of registers, state information systems and improvement of their interaction; 6) coordinate draft plans of information technologies development, collect and analyze information about the implementation of the plans, creation, development and management of information resources managed by the institutions, and the funds used for that purpose; 7) analyze the reports submitted in accordance with the procedure provided for in paragraph 6 of Article 19 and paragraph 3 of Article 31, submit summary information to the state information resources development policy making institution; 8) coordinate the creation of information technology tools allowing access to the state information resources; 9) analyse how the state information resources are used for state governance and public and administrative services provision, prepare and submit proposals in this regard; 10) consult the institutions regarding the issues of state information resources functional compatibility, development and management, managers of registers and state information systems, administrators of registers and state information systems, other institutions regarding the issues on establishment of state information systems, creation and functioning of registers and state information systems and registers system development, hardware and software maintenance and delegation of data processing functions; 11) carry out other functions prescribed by the laws and other legal acts of the Republic of Lithuania. 3. The State Data Protection Inspectorate shall be responsible for the implementation of personal data protection requirements and monitoring of the compliance with them, and within its competence shall: 1) coordinate draft laws and other legal acts of the Republic of Lithuania regulating legal basis for establishment of registers meant for processing personal data; 2) coordinate the draft laws and other legal acts of the Republic of Lithuania regulating establishment of state information systems meant for processing personal data; 3) coordinate draft regulations on registers and state information systems meant for processing personal data; 4) according to the procedure provided for by the Law on Legal Protection of Personal Data individuals examine complaints and reports, check the legitimacy of personal data processing in the registers and state information systems, and take decisions regarding violations of personal data processing; 5) consult managers of the registers and state information systems, administrators of the registers and state information systems, other legal and natural persons on the issues of personal data protection; 6) carry out other functions prescribed by the laws and other legal acts of the Republic of Lithuania. CHAPTER III STATE INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS Article 7. The State Information Resources Management Council 1. The State Information Resources Management Council shall be a collegial advisory body comprising representatives of the institutions formulating the state information resources policy, the Prime Minister's Office, the Office of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania (hereinafter referred to as Seimas), the Office of the President, the State Courts Administration, the Lithuanian Association of Local Authorities and other representatives, competent in the area of information and communications technologies. The number of members of the State Information Resources Management Council, its composition and rules of procedure shall be approved by the Government. 2. The State Information Resources Management Council shall: 1) prepare proposals and recommendations to the Government on the proposals submitted by the institutions formulating the state information resources policy regarding priority activities in the area of state information resources, development trends, intended results and ways to achieve them, directions for information technologies improvement and development, recommended technical specifications (standards), protection requirements, guidelines on the content of protection documents, establish the criteria for the information importance assessment, state information systems, registers and other information systems classification according to the importance of information processed by them and the procedure for their attribution to the appropriate category, centralized purchase and application of information technology tools, information and communication technologies and (or) their services, granting the right to an institution to perform the functions of the central contracting authority, other state information resources management and development issues; 2) perform other functions set by the Government. 3. The representative to the State Information Resources Management Council shall be appointed for a period of four years, however, can be replaced by the decision of the Government upon the receipt of a reasoned recommendation from the head of the appointing institution. 4. The State Information Resources Management Council shall be provided economic and technical service by the institution authorized by the Government. 5. The State Information Resources Management Council in carrying out their activities shall cooperate with social partners and experts in the field of the information and communication technologies. Article 8. Authorised person for data management 1. Authorised person for data management shall be the head of a structural unit of the manager or the administrator of the state information system or register in charge of the institution functions provided for by the legal acts, and in case such a structural unit does not exist, the employee in charge of the institution functions provided for by the legal acts. 2. Authorised person for data management, in accordance with the information technologies development plan, other institution’s planning documents shall: 1) implement the development of the state information system, functionally independent component thereof (hereinafter - subsystem), register, or functionally independent component thereof; 2) directly supervise the development and management of the state information system, subsystem, register or its functionally independent component, installation of software, use of investments; 3) prepare draft budgets of the state information system or register; 4) ensure that the information, data, documents and (or) their copies are provided, disclosed and (or) transmitted in accordance with the requirements of legal acts; 5) submit proposals regarding rights and duties of the staff members that are assigned to manage data, information, documents and (or) their copies; 6) perform other functions prescribed by legal acts. 3. Authorised person for data management shall be appointed by the manager or administrator of the state information system or a register.  Authorised person for data management must be appointed for each register, state information system or its subsystem. Upon the decision of the manager or administrator of the state information system or register the same person can be appointed data management representative of several registers, state information systems or subsystems. CHAPTER IV PLANNING, CREATION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE STATE INFORMATION RESOURCES SECTION ONE GENERAL PROVISIONS Article 9. Planning 1. The institution managing the state information resources of critical importance shall prepare a draft plan of information technologies development, which with regard to the planning documents approved by the Government or the Seimas, directions of information and communication technology improvement and development, and technical requirements (standards) provided for and recommended by the Government as well as upon coordination with other planning documents of the institution, sets objectives and tasks of creation and use of information technology tools intended for managing information, data, documents and (or) their copies, defines state information systems and registers to be created or modernized, priorities of their establishment and modernization, planned to be introduced electronic services, necessary financial and human resources, organizational and legal measures, qualification requirements for personnel, staff training needs, their activity organization and control. 2. Information technology development plan shall be a document covering the planning of not more than 3 years. The draft plan of information technology development shall be coordinated with the institution responsible for the functional compatibility of information resources, their creation, management and development in accordance with the procedure established by this institution. The plan of information technology development shall be approved by the head of the institution. 3. Institutions managing state information resources shall include the information specified in paragraph 1 of this Article in the draft strategic activity plan and annual activity plan prepared according to the procedure established by the Government. 4. Monitoring of the implementation of information technologies plans, creation, management, and development of information resources managed by institutions, monitoring of funds used for that purpose shall be carried out by the institution responsible for the functional compatibility of the state information resources, their creation, management and development. Article 10. Principles While creating and processing the state information resources, institutions in their activities shall be guided by the following principles: 1) information completeness, which means that institutions have sufficient information that enables them to carry out their functions; 2) exchange of information, which means that effective information communication is being developed between institutions, allowing the institution to have access to all state information resources in addressing management tasks and improving services to individual persons; 3) information fairness, which means that information, including internal administration information, processed by information technology tools, is true as long as it is not contested according to the procedure established by the laws of the Republic of Lithuania and the European Union legal acts; 4) planning, which means that establishment, creation, and management order, terms, financial and human resources and necessary legal, organizational, software and hardware tools related to the state information resources are planned; 5) information protection, which means that it is ensured that information, as well as internal administration information processed by information technology tools, is not illegally destroyed or altered, damaged, misappropriated, published, submitted or otherwise used; 6) technological neutrality, which means that there is no promoting or discrimination of the use of particular information technologies, as well as that their use is assessed in accordance with the functionality, protection, reliability, validity and performance criteria; 7) accessibility of state information resources, which means that the state information resources are created in a way that they are accessible to all individuals regardless of gender, race, nationality, language, origin, disability, social status, belief, convictions or views, age, sexual orientation, ethnic origin or religion; 8) openness of the information resources, which means that favourable conditions for natural and legal persons are created for re-use of information managed by the institutions when carrying out statutory functions independently of the natural and legal persons legitimate operating objectives and legal form thereof; 9) state resources functional compatibility, which means that information technology tools are designed in a way as to satisfy the needs of the institution functions performance and appropriate to provide services as to satisfy the needs of other institution functions performance; 10) convenient use, which means that natural and legal persons are ensured easy access to the electronic services provided, possibility to provide opinions and proposals for their improvement and receive answers. Article 11. Rights and duties of an institution when creating and managing state information resources 1. When creating and managing the state information resources, an institution shall: 1) have the right to use the information managed by other institutions and information technology tools created to the extent necessary for carrying out statutory functions; 2) exercise the rights provided in other legal acts. 2. When creating and managing the state information resources, an institution must: 1) plan financial and human resources, technical, organizational, software and legal measures; 2) achieve that information, including internal administration information, is processed by state information systems, other information systems and registers; 3) plan creation and management of the state information resources in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 9 of this Law; 4) describe information processed by information technology tools in the regulations of state information systems and registers; 5) seek functional compatibility of the state information resources; 6) collect from other sources and process information required for performance of the statutory functions only; derive the required data primarily from the state information systems and registers and collect from other sources only the data that is not processed by other state information systems and registers, and, therefore, can not be obtained through the state information systems or registers interaction; ensure required qualifications of the employees managing information, data, documents and (or) their copies; seek that while creating the state information systems, other information systems and registers existing information technology solutions of other institutions would be re-used; 10) enable institutions, other natural and legal persons use its managed information in accordance with the conditions laid down in the legal acts and information delivery methods used by the institution, and gratuitously use available information technology solutions; install only those hardware, software, legal and organizational tools that do not impose exclusive data provision conditions or unjustified restrictions reducing the possibilities of data use; 12) constantly record opinions of the information beneficiaries or users of electronic services and on the basis of the latter improve the managed information systems and (or) registers; 13) perform actions prescribed by other legal acts. Article 12. Intellectual property rights 1. An institution, without prejudice to the copyright holder or third party intellectual property rights, shall be transferred according to the contract all copyright holder property rights to the commissioned software and prepared project documents, including but not limited to, the right for an indefinite period and at no extra cost use the software created for an institution, the right to create copies of the software, the right to modify and further develop the software created, the right to transfer the software to another technology platform, to issue rights to use this software to other institutions and third parties, the right to use and modify the source code (machine language source code) of the software created for it. 2. If in the commissioned software another software of the copyright holder or a third-party is used, which is integrated into the commissioned software, or otherwise associated with work orders, the author's economic rights to this software are granted to this institution such as it is necessary to allow proper use of the commissioned software. 3. The institution shall not have restrictions on the right to transfer maintenance and further development of the commissioned register or state information system software to another service supplier including access to source code tools. 4. Transfer of the author's economic rights to the created software, prepared design documents to the institution that commissioned to create the software and to develop design documents shall not restrict the transferor's rights, without separate consent, of the institution to further develop, improve and perform other necessary actions with the software created or design documents prepared, except the cases when the institution that ordered to create the software or prepare design documentation reasonably requires otherwise. Article 13. Information technologies management When managing information technologies (their setup, changes, activity continuity, operation problems, and other processes) it is recommended to consider methodological documents on information technologies services management approved by the institution responsible for state information resources functional compatibility , their creation, management and development, and prepared according to generally recognized national and international information technology standards or other equivalent documents. Article 14. Assessment of information technology tools management and protection 1. When assessing management and protection of the state information systems which processes the institution’s managed information important for the entire state, and the main state registers, as well as state information systems and registers for the creation or modernization of which the amount of funding set by the Government or its authorized institution has been exceeded, the audit of information technologies is carried out at least once in a three years. 2. Information technologies audit shall be carried out by the certified information systems auditors of the universally recognized international organizations. SECTION TWO REGISTERS Article 15. Registers system and general principles of registers interaction 1. The basis of the registers system shall be the main state registers, which process register data used in the associated registers. Registers combined into the registers system can use the data processed not only by the main state registers. Registers and data obtained from them shall be indicated in the register regulations. When establishing interaction between registers it is necessary to coordinate it with the manager of associated register, unless the manager of the register is the same ministry, state institution or state agency. 2. The basis of the register system functioning shall be registers interaction. Registers interaction shall be established in the register regulations and supported by the regulations of the associated register and procedure established by the register data provision agreements and conditions for transmitting and updating via electronic communications networks register data, encrypting the data received from the associated register using the object identifying code provided by that register. 3. The register data must be appropriate for using in other registers and state information systems, including registers and information systems managed by the European Union member states and (or) the European Economic Area countries. 4. It shall be prohibited for register administrator to collect and record into the register the data transmitted by the associated register from the primary sources or revise them in any other way. A register object registered in the register shall not be re-registered in other registers. 5. Register data and register information shall be deemed to be true as long as they are not contested according to the procedure provided for in the laws of the Republic of Lithuania and legal acts of the European Union. 6. The register administrator shall be responsible for ensuring that data from the register provided to the associated register corresponds with his administered register data. 7. The administrator of the register having noticed a mistake in the data received from the associated register shall report this immediately to the administrator of the register who submitted these register data; having considered the indicated shortcomings the administrator shall correct the erroneous register data according to the terms and procedure established in the register regulations and forward without delay the corrected register data to the associated registers and state information systems and inform the persons who were sent the erroneous register data. 8. Registries must use international and national classifications recognized in accordance with the procedure established in the legal acts. If recognized classifications necessary for register operation do not exist, specific classifications for that register shall be created. Created registers classifications shall be an integral part of the register data, therefore, they are transmitted to associated registers and state information systems, provided to persons together with the register data. Classifications shall be managed in accordance with the procedure established by the Government or an institution authorised by it. 9. When a stable natural or anthropogenic object on the land surface shall be registered, the object spatial data shall be accumulated and managed in the register. Spatial data shall be compiled and entered into the register by using data of the georeference basis cadastre. Article 16. The main registers The main registers shall be state registers registering: 1) legal entities; 2) residents; 3) real property and rights of ownership to it; 4) addresses of the objects, the geographic position of which does not change; 5) legal acts; 6) mortgage of rights in rem and property rights shall be registered. Article 17. The basis for register establishment 1. Register shall be established when regulating social relations originating from execution of economic, social, law enforcement or other tasks, the fact of the register object registration is required in order to use it against a third party or initiate other legal consequences, if necessary. 2. When at least one of the following reasons exists, the state register shall be established: 1) the fact of the register object registration is required for regulating social relations indicated in Paragraph 1 of this Article at national level in the Republic of Lithuania; 2) register is a component of the state registers or information systems administered in the European Union Member States or the European Economic Area countries; 3) register data are necessary in exercising the statutory functions of the Republic of Lithuania state institutions and state agencies from several management areas. 3. When the register object registration fact is necessary in exercising the statutory functions of one management area of the Republic of Lithuania state institutions and public bodies, the departmental register shall be established. Article 18. Register establishment 1. The legal basis for the state register establishment shall be provided for in the general law of the Republic of Lithuania regulating a separate public life area that shall define the state register to be established, the registered object (objects), the state register manager, authorization to the Government to appoint the state register administrator (administrators) and (or) other information associated to the state register to be established, or the European Union legal act. The legal basis for the establishment of the state register can be defined in a separate law of the Republic of Lithuania when the regulation of the activities of the register requires establishment of a special legal regulation or adoption of specific legal rules related to provision of data, information, documents and (or) their copies for object registration, this register object registration, rights and duties of persons providing data, information, documents and (or) their copies set in the legal acts (hereinafter - the provider) to this register, persons receiving the data from this register, the register information, documents and (or) their copies submitted to the register (hereinafter - the recipient), rights and duties of this register manager and this register administrator, management of this register data and information, documents and (or) their copies submitted to the register, procedures and (or) restrictions of their transmission to associated registers and state information systems and provision to recipients. 2. Register regulations shall be approved and starting date of the register activity shall be set by the Government, except the cases when a departmental register is being established by a state institution or state agency that is not accountable to the Government (hereinafter - institution or agency not accountable to the Government). When a departmental register is being established by an institution or agency not accountable to the Government, this institution or agency shall approve the departmental register regulations and set the starting date of the departmental register activity. 3. Register regulations shall specify register purpose, its object (objects), register manager register administrator (administrators), their rights and duties, register data, register information, management of the register documents and (or) their copies, interaction of the register with the associated register (associated registers), protection of register data and register information, conditions and procedure of register information and data reuse, funding of the register and other information set out by the Government. Draft register regulations shall be prepared and coordinated in accordance with the procedure set by the Government. The register regulations on data protection shall contain register category, set according to the guidelines on the state information systems, registers and other information systems classification approved by the Government, information protection objectives, priority areas for protection ensuring and other information related to the established register. Draft register regulations shall be prepared, coordinated and approved in accordance with the procedure set by the Government. 4. State register regulations shall be approved within one year after the entry into force of the Republic of Lithuania law or European Union legal act establishing the legal basis for register establishment, unless these legal acts specify another term. The register shall be considered established from the moment of the approval of the register regulations. 5. The register manager must notify the administrator of the Registers and State Information Systems Register about the approved register regulations in accordance with the procedure provided for in the Regulations of Registers and State Information Systems Register. Article 19. Registers creation 1. Register creation shall be started when the Government or institution or agency not accountable to the Government approves the register regulations and sets up the starting date of the register activity. 2. Register creation shall be organized, creation process shall be monitored, and register creation performance shall be assessed by the register manager. Register administrator and (or) supplier selected (appointed) according to the procedure provided for in the legal acts which may be authorized by the register manager to process the data during the register creation period shall create the register and install the software. The register creator must ensure the safety of the data processed according to the procedure provided for in the laws and other legal acts of the Republic of Lithuania. 3. According to the register regulations, the register technical description (specification) shall be drawn up. Register technical description (specification) and other design documents shall be prepared, coordinated and approved in accordance with the procedure set by the Government and methodology approved by the institution responsible for the state information resources functional interaction, their creation, management and development. The register installation documents and other design documents, with exception of register technical description (specification), shall be confidential and disclosed only in the case if the laws or other legal acts of the Republic of Lithuania require to disclose information contained therein. 4. The register shall be created pursuant to the register technical description (specification), other design and security documents. The register may have functionally independent components for providing electronic services and developing register activities only. 5. The register or its functionally independent components corresponding to the requirements set in the register regulations, design documents and security documents shall be considered developed and shall be validated when the register manager approves the certificate of acceptance and suitability for use of the register or its functionally independent component. 6. The register manager shall prepare progress reports of the state register creation and submit them to the institution responsible for the state information resources functional interaction, their creation, management and development. 7. The register shall be developed and validated before the starting date of the register activity. 8. The register manager shall notify the administrator of the Registers and State Information Systems Register about the technical description (specification) and approved acceptance and suitability for use certificate  in accordance with the procedure of set in the regulations of the Registers and State Information Systems Register. 9. Only validated register or its functionally independent component shall be used. Article 20. Reorganisation of the registers 1. The register shall be reorganized by merging, splitting the registers, by changing the register manager and (or) register administrator, by restructuring the state register into the departmental register or the departmental register into the state register. 2. The register shall be reorganized when, considering the register reorganization basis, provisions embedded in the law of the Republic of Lithuania or European Union legal act regulating the legal basis of the register establishment and related to the register to be reorganized are changed respectively. 3. The register reorganization order shall be established by the Government or departmental register manager in case the departmental register was established by the institution not accountable to the Government. 4. When reorganizing the register, register reorganization end date, rights and duties of the register manager and register administrator during the reorganization period, legal acts to be amended, procedure and terms of the transfer of register data, register information, documents and (or) their copies, validity of the documents and (or) their copies issued by the register, notification procedure of suppliers and recipients, measures ensuring registration continuity of the register object in the register and (or) other register reorganization conditions shall be set. 5. If during the register reorganization the register manager or register administrator is changed, the register reorganization shall be performed by the newly appointed register manager or register administrator. 6. The register manager or his authorized register administrator not later than within five working days after the enforcement of the legal act providing for the register reorganization procedure shall notify the manager of the Registers and State Information Systems Register about the adopted legal act in accordance with the procedure set in the regulations of the Registers and State Information Systems Register. Article 21. Liquidation of the registers 1. The register shall be liquidated when the register establishment basis ceases to exist. 2. After the legal basis of register establishment ceases to exist, the register liquidation order shall be set up by the Government or departmental register manager when the departmental register was established by the institution not accountable to the Government. 3. When liquidating the register, register liquidation end date, transfer procedure of register data, register information, documents and (or) their copies to the state archives or another register or security and (or) destruction measures and terms of the mentioned data, information and documents and (or) their copies, legal acts to be amended, suppliers and recipients notification procedure and (or) other register liquidation measures shall be established. Transfer procedure of the register data, register information, register documents and (or) their copies to the state archives or their destruction measures and terms shall be set in accordance with the Republic of Lithuania Law on Documents and Archives (hereinafter referred to as the Law on Documents and Archives) and the procedure set by the Chief Archivist of Lithuania. 4. Information about the liquidated register shall be published on the websites of the register manager and register administrator. 5. The register shall be liquidated until the set register liquidation date. The register manager or his authorized register administrator not later than within five working days after the enforcement of the legal act providing for the register liquidation procedure shall notify the administrator of the Registers and State Information Systems Register about the adopted legal act in accordance with the procedure set in the regulations of the Registers and State Information Systems Register. Article 22. Registers and State Information Systems Register 1. The Registers and State Information Systems Register shall be a state register. 2. Registers and state information systems shall be registered, data about their establishment, creation, reorganisation or modernisation, liquidation and functioning shall be processed in the Registers and State Information Systems Register. 3. The register data shall be processed according to the procedure set in the regulations of the Registers and State Information Systems Register. 4. The Ministry of Transport and Communications shall be the manger of the Registers and State Information Systems Register. The administrator of the Registers and State Information Systems Register shall be appointed by the Government. Article 23. Appointment of the register manager and register administrator 1. The register manager shall be appointed by the law of the Republic of Lithuania laying down the legal basis of register establishment and the register administrator (administrators) shall be appointed by the legal act adopted by the Government and approving the state register regulations. The register manager shall be appointed by the legal act adopted by the Government and approving regulations of the state register where the establishment of the state register is provided for by the European Union legal act. The manager and the administrator (administrators) of the departmental register shall be appointed by the legal act by which the departmental register regulations are approved. 2. The manager of the state register shall be appointed the ministry or state institution or state agency not accountable to the ministry, another legal person, if its manager is the allocations manager. When the ministry is appointed the manager of the state register, state institution or state agency accountable to the ministry, another legal person which owner’s rights and duties are realized by the ministry may be appointed the administrator of the state register. When the state institution or state agency not accountable to the ministry, another legal person is appointed the manager of the state register, it may be appointed the state register administrator as well. The manager of the departmental register shall be appointed the ministry, another state institution or state agency.  The administrator of the departmental register may be appointed another state institution or state agency, or another legal person accountable to the register manager. The ministry may be appointed the state or departmental register administrator only in cases provided for in the laws of the Republic of Lithuania and for the set period of time. Article 24. Rights and duties of the register manager and register administrator 1. The register manager shall methodologically govern the register administrator and coordinate functioning of the register. 2. The register manager shall have: 1) the right to prepare and adopt legal acts associated to the management of register data, register information, documents and (or) their copies submitted to the register, security of register data and register information; 2) the right to solve register development issues; the right to transfer to the service provider provided for in Article 41 this law the maintenance of the register hardware and software and (or) management functions of the register data, register information, documents and (or) their copies submitted to the register, except functions associated to decisions on the register object registration, decisions on register information, register documents and (or) their copies provision and transfer, and establishment of rights and duties of persons who manage the register data, register information, register documents and (or) their copies; 4) other rights set in the register regulations and other legal acts. 3. The register manager must: 1) coordinate work of the register administrator and service provider provided for in Article 41 of this law, supervise their activities according to the set procedure; 2) perform supervision of compliance with the security requirements of register data and register information; 3) plan the annual register budget, monitor its performance; 4) consider the register administrator’s proposals regarding improvement of register activity performance and decide on them; 5) ensure that the register is maintained pursuant to this law, register regulations and other legal acts; 6) provide information about the register activities; 7) perform other actions set in the register regulations and other legal acts. 4. The register administrator shall register the register object (objects), manage the register data, register information, documents and (or) their copies submitted to the register and is responsible for the protection of register data and register information. 5. The register administrator shall have: 1) the right to require from the suppliers provided for in paragraph 1 of Article 18 of this Law that data, information, documents and (or) their copies submitted by them would be properly written, timely submitted, and would correspond to the data of the associated register; 2) the right to prepare and implement the plans of creating and developing register technical and software tools, investment projects; 3) other rights set in the register regulations and other legal acts. 6. The register administrator must: 1) establish the deadline for suppliers provided for in paragraph 1 of Article 18 of this Law to eliminate the shortcomings, if it identifies that the register data, information, documents and (or) their copies are inaccurate or do not meet the requirements provided for in the legal acts; 2) establish principles and procedures for register work organization; ensure continuous register operation; 4) ensure that the register data and registry information correspond to the data given in the documents submitted to the register administrator; 5) ensure that the register data would be constantly updated; 6) ensure that false, inaccurate, incomplete register data and register information would be immediately corrected, updated or supplemented; 7) ensure that recipients who were provided incorrect, inaccurate, incomplete register data, register information, documents and (or) their copies submitted to the register would be informed about rectification of inaccuracies; 8) ensure that the register is maintained pursuant to register regulations and other legal acts; 9) perform other actions set in the register regulations and other legal acts. 7. If personal data is processed in the register, the register manager shall be the personal data manager and the register administrator shall be the personal data administrator as well. Article 25. Register object registration 1. The register object shall be registered, when the register data and register information are recorded in the register database and the register object identification code is granted. 2. Register data and registry information shall be recorded, modified, or deleted from the registry based on the data, information, documents and (or) their copies submitted for register object registration, registry data and (or) register information modification or register object removal from the register. After the register object removal from the register, register data, register information, register documents and (or) their copies shall be kept in the register for the period specified in the register regulations. 3. According to the procedure established by the Republic of Lithuania Law on Fees and Charges a state fee may be collected for the register object registration (when the register administrator registering the register object is a state institution or agency) or a charge set by the Government (when the register administrator registering the register object is a state enterprise). 4. When calculating a charge for the register object registration, administrative expenses together with a reasonable return on investment must be considered. The charge amount must be based on the work time consumed for the registration procedure by the staff registering the object, return on investment into the implementation of information technologies solutions used and expenditure incurred from the use of these information technologies solutions. Article 26. Use of register data, register information, documents and (or) …