Lietuviškai

                   THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF                   
                    THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA                    

                         D E C I S I O N                         

             On the dismissal of the initiated legal             
                     proceedings of the case                     

                      4 July 1994, Vilnius                       

     The  Constitutional  Court  of  the  Republic  of Lithuania,
composed  from  the Justices of the Constitutional Court Algirdas
Gailiūnas,    Kęstutis   Lapinskas,   Zigmas   Levickis,   Vladas
Pavilonis,   Pranas   Vytautas  Rasimavičius,  Stasys  Stačiokas,
Teodora Staugaitienė, Stasys Šedbaras and Juozas Žilys,
     the secretary of the hearing - Rolanda Stimbirytė,
     in  the  procedural  sitting  of  the  Constitutional  Court
considered  the  report  made  by  Justice  Zigmas  Levickis  and
Justice  Teodora  Staugaitienė  about the case in preparation for
the  court  hearing  subsequent  to the petition submitted to the
Court  by  a group of Seimas members requesting to investigate if
the  Government  of  the  Republic of Lithuania Resolution No 137
"On  urgent  activities  while implementing land reform in 1993",
adopted  4  March 1993; Resolution No 138 "On the confirmation of
interim  procedure  for  the lease of state land in rural areas",
adopted   4   March   1993;   and   Resolution  No  849  "On  the
confirmation  of  interim  regulations  concerning the seizure of
plots  of  land  and  their  allocation  for the needs of state",
adopted   9   November   1992,   are   in   compliance  with  the
Constitution  of  the  Republic  of  Lithuania,  the  Law  of the
Republic  of  Lithuania  "On  the Procedure and Conditions of the
Restoration  of  the  Rights  of  Ownership  to the Existing Real
Property",  and  the  Law  of  the  Republic of Lithuania on Land
Reform.
  
     The Constitutional Court
     has established:

     On  19  October  1993  the  Government  of  the  Republic of
Lithuania  by  Resolution  No  785  (Official  Gazette "Valstybės
Žinios"  No  55-1075,  1993)  nullified the disputable Resolution
No  137  of 4 March 1993 "On urgent activities while implementing
land  reform  in  1993";  on  14  April 1994 by Resolution No 280
(Official  Gazette  "Valstybės žinios" No 29-519, 1994) nullified
the  disputable  Resolution  No  138  of  4  March  1993"  On the
confirmation  of  interim  procedure  for the lease of state land
in  rural  areas". In item 2 of the Government of the Republic of
Lithuania  Resolution  No  849  "On  the  confirmation of interim
regulations  concerning  the  seizure  of plots of land and their
allocation  for  the needs of state", adopted 9 November 1992, it
was  established  that  the  Resolution  would be valid until the
adoption  of  the  Law  of the Republic of Lithuania on Land. The
said  Law  was enforced on 1 July 1994. Therefore, the disputable
Resolution  No  849  of  9 November 1992, upon the enforcement of
the  Law  of  the Republic of Lithuania on Land (Official Gazette
"Valstybės žinios" No 34-618, 1994), became invalid.
     In  the  fourth  part  of  Article  69  of  the  Law  on the
Constitutional  Court  it  is  established:  "The  annulment of a
disputable  legal  act  shall  be  grounds to adopt a decision to
dismiss the initiated legal proceedings".

     Conforming  to  the  fourth part of Article 69 of the Law on
the  Constitutional  Court  of  the  Republic  of  Lithuania, the
Constitutional Court has taken the following
     decision:

     to dismiss the initiated legal proceedings of this case.