Lietuviškai

                 PRESIDENT OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL                 
               COURT OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA                

                          ANNOUNCEMENT                           
        ON THE SUSPENSION OF THE VALIDITY OF PARAGRAPH 3         
       (WORDING OF 22 DECEMBER 1998) OF ARTICLE 73 OF THE        
       STATUTE OF THE SEIMAS OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA        
  
                         11 January 2006                         
                             Vilnius                             

     By  the  Constitutional  Court  Decision  "On  Accepting the
Petition  of  a  Petitioner"  of 11 January 2006, the petition of
the  Seimas  of  the  Republic  of Lithuania, the petitioner, set
forth  in  Seimas Resolution No. X-455 "On the Application to the
Constitutional   Court  of  the  Republic  of  Lithuania  with  a
Request  to  Investigate whether Paragraph 3 of Article 73 of the
Statute  of  the  Seimas  of  the Republic of Lithuania is not in
Conflict  with  the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania" of
20   December   2005,   requesting  to  investigate  whether  the
provision  "if  a  group of at least one-fourth of the members of
Seimas  shall  submit  a written demand to form an ad hoc control
or   investigation  commission,  the  Seimas  must  form  such  a
commission  in  the course of its nearest sitting" of Paragraph 3
of  Article  73  of  the Statute of the Seimas of the Republic of
Lithuania   is   not  in  conflict  with  the  principle  of  the
unrestricted   mandate   of   a   Seimas  member,  entrenched  in
Paragraph  4  of  Article  59 of the Constitution of the Republic
of Lithuania, was accepted for consideration.
     Under  Paragraph  4  of  Article  160 of the Constitution of
the  Republic  of  Lithuania, the resolution of the Seimas asking
for  an  investigation  into  the  conformity  of an act with the
Constitution shall suspend the validity of this act.
     Conforming   to   Paragraph   4   of   Article  160  of  the
Constitution  of  the  Republic  of  Lithuania and Paragraph 2 of
Article  26  of  the  Law  on  the  Constitutional  Court  of the
Republic of Lithuania,
     I  hereby  announce that from the day when this announcement
is   officially  published  in  the  official  gazette  Valstybės
žinios  till  the  Constitutional  Court  announces its ruling in
this  case,  the  validity of Paragraph 3 (wording of 22 December
1998)  of  Article  73  of  the  Statute  of  the  Seimas  of the
Republic  of  Lithuania, adopted by the Seimas of the Republic of
Lithuania on 17 February 1994, shall be suspended.


     President 					Egidijus Kūris