Lietuviškai

                 PRESIDENT OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL                 
               COURT OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA                

                          ANNOUNCEMENT                           
        ON THE RESTORATION 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        

                          4 April 2006                           
                             Vilnius                             

     On  14  January  2006, the official gazette Valstybės žinios
published  an  official  announcement  of  the  President  of the
Constitutional   Court   that   till   the  Constitutional  Court
announced  its  ruling  in the case subsequent to the petition of
the  Seimas  of  the Republic of Lithuania, the petitioner, which
had  been  set forth in the Seimas Resolution "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 a provisional
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   was   not   in   conflict   with,  according  to  the
petitioner,  the  principle  of  the  free  mandate  of  a Seimas
member,   entrenched   in  Paragraph  4  of  Article  59  of  the
Constitution  of  the  Republic  of  Lithuania,  the  validity of
Paragraph  3  (wording  of 22 December 1998) of Article 73 of the
Statute   of   the  Seimas  of  the  Republic  of  Lithuania  was
suspended.
     On  4  April  2006,  the  Constitutional  Court  adopted the
Ruling   "On  the  compliance  of  Paragraph  3  (wording  of  22
December  1998)  of  Article  73  of the Statute of the Seimas of
the  Republic  of Lithuania with the Constitution of the Republic
of  Lithuania"  whereby it recognised that that the provision "If
a  group  of  at  least  1/4  of  the Members of Seimas submits a
written  demand  to  form  a  provisional  <...>  commission, the
Seimas  must  form such a commission in the course or its nearest
sitting"  of  Paragraph  3 (wording of 22 December 1998; Official
Gazette  Valstybės  žinios,  1999, No. 5-97) of Article 73 of the
Statute  of  the  Seimas  is  not in conflict with Paragraph 4 of
Article  59  of the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania and
the constitutional principle of a state under the rule of law.
     Conforming  to  Paragraph  3 of Article 26 of the Law on the
Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania,
     I  hereby  announce  that  from the day of publishing of the
Constitutional  Court  Ruling  "On  the compliance of Paragraph 3
(wording  of  22  December  1998) of Article 73 of the Statute of
the  Seimas  of  the  Republic of Lithuania with the Constitution
of  the  Republic  of  Lithuania" of 4 April 2006 the validity of
Paragraph  3  (wording  of 22 December 1998) of Article 73 of the
Statute  of  the  Seimas  of  the  Republic of Lithuania shall be
restored.


President					Egidijus Kūris