Article 68. Remit of the Committee on Foreign Affairs
The remit of the Committee on Foreign Affairs shall be:
1) to prepare conclusions concerning the ratification and denouncement of international treaties of the Republic of Lithuania and other issues of foreign policy which are considered by the Seimas;
2) to prepare and consider drafts of laws and other legal acts related to foreign affairs and to submit conclusions thereon;
3) to exercise parliamentary scrutiny of the ministries and other government agencies which carry out foreign policy, submit proposals and recommendations regarding the improvement of their activities; to consider and submit proposals concerning for developing and implementing State foreign policy;
4) taking into account the priorities of foreign policy, to coordinate the activities of the International Relations Department of the Office of the Seimas, to discuss the representation of the Seimas in international organisations and fora, to submit recommendations concerning activities of the Seimas delegations, to coordinate activities of the interparliamentary relations groups, to submit recommendations and proposals to them, to hear and evaluate activity reports of the Seimas delegations in international organisations and fora and the Seimas political groups at least once a year starting from the date of their setting-up;
5) to exercise control of state institutions which present information about Lithuania meant for foreign countries, prepare conclusions and proposals relative thereto;
6) to maintain and develop, in conjunction with State and public organisations, the relations with Lithuanian emigrants and their organisations and with the Lithuanians autochthons residing outside the Republic of Lithuania;
7) to consider, in conjunction with other committees, the problems related to the regulation of migration and submit proposals and conclusions thereon;
8) to consider and submit recommendations and proposals to the Government concerning the establishment of diplomatic relations of the Republic of Lithuania and the opening of Lithuanian missions abroad;
9) to consider in advance proposals of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, submit conclusions and recommendations related to the appointment of diplomatic representatives of the Republic of Lithuania in foreign states and international organisations and the recalling of the said representatives;
10) 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;
11) 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 regarding these documents;
12) to submit, within its remit and where necessary, conclusions to the Seimas regarding potential non-compliance of draft legislative acts (within the meaning of Article 1801(3)) with the principle of subsidiarity.
