Article 611 of the Statute of the Seimas. Remit of the Committee on the Development of Information Society
The remit of the Committee on the Development of Information Society:
1) to prepare and consider drafts of laws and other legal acts regulating the design of the sustainable development of the knowledge society and the knowledge economy, progress of innovation technologies and management and modernisation of communications, management and safety of information resources and communications infrastructure, to consider and submit proposals related to these issues;
2) to consider and submit to the Seimas the conclusions and proposals regarding the design of the sustainable development of the knowledge society and the knowledge economy, investment promotion, communication administration and modernisation, formation of an information security policy;
3) to coordinate activities of state institutions and agencies and other organisations when preparing drafts of laws and other legal acts on the issues falling within the Committee’s remit;
4) to analyse international legal acts and international practice related to the design of the sustainable development of communications, the knowledge society and the knowledge economy, ensuring of information security, to submit proposals and conclusions to the Seimas;
5) to review the use of the funds allocated for the development of communications, innovations, information security, the knowledge society and the knowledge economy in each programme of the manager of budget appropriations and to evaluate the effectiveness of investments;
6) to submit proposals regarding the compliance of drafts of laws and other legal acts prepared by the Seimas Committees and the national strategy of the development of the information and knowledge society;
7) to exercise parliamentary scrutiny on the issues within the Committee’s remit, to hear information and reports of the ministries, other state institutions and agencies on the implementation of the laws and other legislative acts adopted by the Seimas and related to the issues within the Committee’s remit.
