The trends of activities of the Committee on European Affairs shall be:
1) to consider within its remit major issues, within the competence of the Seimas, pertaining to the membership of the Republic of Lithuania in the European Union, and to submit conclusions related to them;
2) to assist in ensuring parliamentary scrutiny of the implementation of the sovereignty and the rights and duties of the membership of the Republic of Lithuania in the European Union;
3) to assist in ensuring an appropriate representation of the interests of the Republic of Lithuania in the European Union;
4) to assist the Seimas in exercising parliamentary scrutiny of the activities of the Governmental and other institutions, related to European Union matters;
5) to supervise timely and proper adoption of laws implementing the legal acts of the European Union during the legislative procedure;
6) to co-ordinate the activities of the Seimas committees and commissions when considering European Union issues and presenting conclusions thereon;
7) within the limits of its competence, to co-operate with the European Parliament and other institutions of the European Union, as well as 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 European Affairs Committees (COSAC);
9) within the limits of its competence, to participate in the process of the preparation and evaluation of proposals to adopt legal acts of the European Union (as they are defined in paragraph 3 of Article 1801), when necessary to present Seimas opinion regarding this position to the Government and to evaluate the presentation of the position in the institutions of the European Union;
10) within the limits of its competence, to consider other documents of the European Union (as they are defined in paragraph 4 of Article 1801), when necessary to present conclusions and proposals concerning these documents;
11) within the limits of its competence, to submit, when necessary, conclusions to the Seimas on the compliance of the proposals to adopt the legal acts of the European Union (as they are defined in paragraph 3 of Article 1801) with the principle of subsidiarity;
12) to organize debates on major issues of the agenda of the European Union in a Seimas plenary sitting, as well as European weeks in the Seimas; and
13) to perform other functions related to the provision of information to the public regarding the European Union.
Statute of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, Article 61
