Lietuviškai

                   THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF                   
                    THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA                    

                            DECISION                             

           Concerning the dismissal of initiated legal           
                           proceedings                           

                    13 October 1993, Vilnius                     
  
     The  Constitutional  Court  of  the  Republic  of Lithuania,
composed  from  the Justices of the Constitutional Court Algirdas
Gailiūnas,  Kęstutis  Lapinskas,  Pranas  Vytautas  Rasimavičius,
Stasys Stačiokas, Teodora Staugaitienė and Juozas Žilys,
     the secretary of the hearing - Rolanda Stimbirytė,
     the  party  concerned  -  the  Seimas  representative Juozas
Bernatonis,
     in  court  hearing,  having examined the issue pertaining to
the dismissal of the initiated legal proceedings of case No 1,
     established:
     The  petitioner  -  a  group of the Seimas members - request
to  investigate  the  compliance  of the provision established in
Part  2  of  Article  137  of  Chapter IV of the Seimas Statute -
"Radio  and  Television  of  the Republic of Lithuania as well as
national  newspapers  while  reporting  on  the  Seimas  sittings
shall  also  release a communiquė. Mass media reportings shall be
devoid  of  comments on the Seimas activities" - with Articles 25
and  44  of  the  Constitution  of the Republic of the Lithuania.
The  Seimas  on  October  12  1993  adopted the legal act "On the
alteration  of  Article  137  of  the  Seimas  of the Republic of
Lithuania  Statute".  With  the  adoption  of  this legal act the
Seimas  in  fact  abrogated  the  disputable legal act which is a
ground  for  the  dismissal of the initiated legal proceedings of
the case.

     Conforming  to  Part  4  of  Article  69  of  the Law on the
Constitutional  Court,  the  Constitutional  Court  has taken the
following
                            decision:                            

     To dismiss the initiated legal proceedings of the case.