Legislation in Lithuania

Abstract

This chapter presents the organisation and procedure of law-making in the Republic of Lithuania, with the laws being adopted by the unicameral Parliament (Seimas) in compliance with the Lithuanian Constitution. It also embraces the legislative policy development and complex draft ing instruments and techniques, including the intricate Lithuanian language requirements, especially in the context of the harmonisation of the terminology in the draft laws implementing EU law. The chapter also indicates the requirements for the amendment of the legal acts and of the use of references. Finally, it discusses ex ante and ex post monitoring to ensure better regulation, and concludes that further reforms are urgently required in order to close the loop between ex post and ex ante evaluation results in the legislative cycle.