Article 61 of the Statute of the Seimas. Remit of the Committee on European Affairs
The remit of the Committee on European Affairs shall be:
1) to consider, within its remit, major issues falling within the remit of the Seimas and pertaining to the membership of the Republic of Lithuania in the European Union and to submit conclusions related thereto;
2) to help ensure parliamentary scrutiny of the sovereignty of the Republic of Lithuania and the implementation of its rights and duties as a member of the European Union;
3) to help ensure an appropriate representation of the interests of the Republic of Lithuania in the European Union;
4) to help the Seimas exercise parliamentary scrutiny of the activities of the Government and other institutions related to planning and performance of actions for the implementation of strategies of the European Union, to the implementation of important regional projects of European integration (especially those related to infrastructure), to the use of the structural funds, and to the issues concerning the participation of Lithuania in the activities of institutions of the European Union;
5) to supervise timely and proper adoption, during the legislative procedure, of laws implementing legal acts of the European Union;
6) to coordinate the activities of Seimas committees and commissions when considering European Union issues and presenting conclusions thereon;
7) to cooperate, within its remit, with the European Parliament and other institutions of the European Union, and with the committees on European affairs of the national parliaments of the European Union Member States and other European states;
8) to represent the Seimas in the Conference of Parliamentary Committees for Union Affairs (COSAC);
9) to participate, within its remit, in the process of the preparation and evaluation of a position of the Republic of Lithuania concerning proposals to adopt legal acts of the European Union (within the meaning of Article 1801(4)), to present, where necessary, an opinion of the Seimas regarding the position of the Republic of Lithuania to the Government and to evaluate the presentation of this position in the institutions of the European Union;
10) to consider, within its remit, other documents of the European Union (as they are defined in Article 1801(5), where necessary, to present conclusions and proposals concerning these documents;
11) to submit, within its remit and where necessary, conclusions to the Seimas regarding a potential non-compliance of draft legislative acts (within the meaning of Article 1801(3)) with the principle of subsidiarity;
12) to organise at a Seimas sitting discussions about key issues on the agenda of the European Union;
13) to perform other functions related to the provision of information to the public regarding the European Union.
