Lietuviškai
                                
                 PRESIDENT OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL
                COURT OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA

                          ANNOUNCEMENT
ON THE SUSPENSION OF THE VALIDITY OF RESOLUTION OF THE GOVERNMENT
  OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA NO. 1698 "ON THE CONSENT TO THE
 DRAFT AGREEMENT ON PURCHASE AND SALE OF THE SHARES OF THE JOINT
 STOCK COMPANY 'ALITA' WHICH BY THE PROPERTY RIGHT BELONG TO THE
                    STATE" OF 24 DECEMBER 2003
                                
                        15 December 2006
                             Vilnius
                                
     By the Constitutional Court decision of 15 December 2006 "On
Accepting  the Petition of a Petitioner", the petition set  forth
in the 23 November 2006 Resolution No. X-922 "On the  Conclusions
of   the   Seimas  Provisional  Investigation  Commission     for
Investigation  into the Privatization of the Joint-stock  Company
'Alita'" (Official Gazette Valstybės žinios, 2006, No.  134-5065)
of  the  Seimas  of the Republic of Lithuania,  the   petitioner,
requesting  to investigate whether Government of the Republic  of
Lithuania  Resolution  No.  1698 "On the Consent  to  the   Draft
Agreement  on Purchase and Sale of the Shares of the  Joint-Stock
Company 'Alita' which Belong to the State by Right of  Ownership"
of 24 December 2003 (Official Gazette Valstybės žinios, 2003, No.
123-5628) is not in conflict with the principle of a state  under
the rule of law and with Paragraph 2 (wording of 4 November 1997)
of  Article 3 and the provision "negotiations on how to   improve
the  bids  may  be  entered into with  the  potential  buyer   or
potential  buyers who have submitted the highest bids and   whose
bids  do not differ from each other by more than 15 per cent"  of
Paragraph  1 (wording of 4 November 1997) of Article 16  (wording
of  17  December  2001)  of the Republic  of  Lithuania  Law   on
Privatisation  of  State-owned and Municipal Property  has   been
accepted for consideration.
     Under Paragraph 4 of Article 106 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 the act. Under Paragraph  2   of
Article  26  of  the  Law on the Constitutional  Court,  if   the
Constitutional Court adopts a decision to accept the petition for
consideration,  the President of the Constitutional Court   shall
immediately  give  an  official  announcement about  it  in   the
official  gazette "Valstybės žinios" as well as on the   Internet
website  of  the  Constitutional  Court;  the  validity  of   the
aforementioned  act  is suspended from the day of  its   official
announcement   until  the  ruling  of  the  Constitution    Court
concerning this case is published.
     Conforming to Paragraph 4 of Article 106 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 of official  publishing
of  this announcement in the official gazette "Valstybės  žinios"
until publishing of a Constitutional Court ruling regarding  this
case  the  validity of Government of the Republic  of   Lithuania
Resolution  No.  1698 "On the Consent to the Draft Agreement   on
Purchase  and  Sale of the Shares of the  Joint-Stock  Company  '
Alita'  which  Belong to the State by Right of Ownership" of   24
December 2003 shall be suspended.

         President                     Egidijus Kūris