THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
DECISION
ON AMENDING AND SUPPLEMENTING THE RULES OF THE
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
25 March 2009
Vilnius
The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania,
composed of the Justices of the Constitutional Court Armanas
Abramavičius, Toma Birmontienė, Pranas Kuconis, Kęstutis
Lapinskas, Zenonas Namavičius, Ramutė Ruškytė, Egidijus Šileikis,
Algirdas Taminskas and Romualdas Kęstutis Urbaitis,
with the secretary of the hearingDaiva Pitrėnaitė,
at a procedural sitting of the Constitutional Court
considered the issue of amendment and supplement of the Rules of
the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania (wording of
18 September 2007 with the amendments and supplements made by the
Constitutional Court decision of 26 November 2008).
Pursuant to Article 3 and Paragraph 5 of Article 55 of the
Law on the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania,
The Constitutional Court has adopted the following
decision:
To amend and supplement the Rules of the Constitutional
Court of the Republic of Lithuania which were set forth in a new
wording by the Decision of the Constitutional Court of the
Republic of Lithuania "On amending the Decision of the
Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania 'On approving
the Rules of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of
Lithuania' of 5 March 2004" of 18 September 2007 (Official
Gazette Valstybės žinios, 2007, No. 100-4082) and which were
amended and supplemented by the Decision of the Constitutional
Court of the Republic of Lithuania "On amending and supplementing
the Rules of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of
Lithuania" of 26 November 2008 (Official Gazette Valstybės
žinios, 2008, No. 139-5513).
1. To amend and supplement Sub-Item 49.7 of the Rules of the
Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania and to set it
forth as follows:
"49.7. the Division of Information and Technologies; the
Library of the Constitutional Court shall be a unit thereof;"
2. To amend Item 62 of the Rules of the Constitutional Court
of the Republic of Lithuania and to set it forth as follows:
"62. The State servants of the library of the Constitutional
Court, upon assignment of the Director of the Law Department and
justices, perform search of legal and other literature according
to indicated topics and provide the lists of literature relevant
for constitutional justice cases."
3. To amend Item 164 of the Rules of the Constitutional
Court of the Republic of Lithuania and to set it forth as
follows:
"164. The reasoned dissenting opinion of the justice shall
be attached to the considered case; the General Division of the
Constitutional Court shall, not later than within 3 working days,
inform, in writing, the parties to the case of this fact. The
mass media shall also be informed of the dissenting opinion
presented by the justice."
3. To amend Item 165 of the Rules of the Constitutional
Court of the Republic of Lithuania and to set it forth as
follows:
"165. The dissenting opinion of a justice shall be published
on the Internet website of the Constitutional Court."
4. To publish this decision of the Constitutional Court in
the official gazette Valstybės žinios and on the Internet website
of the Constitutional Court.
Justices of the Constitutional Court: Armanas Abramavičius
Toma Birmontienė
Pranas Kuconis
Kęstutis Lapinskas
Zenonas Namavičius
Ramutė Ruškytė
Egidijus Šileikis
Algirdas Taminskas
Romualdas Kęstutis Urbaitis