The trends of activities of the Committee on Legal Affairs shall be:
1) to consider and make proposals concerning the formation of State legal policy;
2) to prepare and help carry out a reform of the legal system;
3) to consider and present conclusions concerning drafts of proposed supplements and amendments of the Constitution, as well as to preliminarily ascertain whether draft laws under discussion are in conformity with the Constitution;
4) to consider and present conclusions concerning approximation of the legislation of the Republic of Lithuania to that of the European Union;
5) to prepare draft laws and proposals related to the enhancement of the effectiveness of law enforcement and to crime control, as well as co-ordinate the preparing of such drafts;
6) to consider and present conclusions and proposals concerning reforms of the system of State institutions;
7) to present legal findings concerning drafts of laws and other legal acts prepared by other committees;
8) to consider and submit to the Seimas an opinion concerning candidatures for judges and presidents of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court, for judges of other courts, prosecutors who are appointed by the Seimas or whose nomination requires the approval of the Seimas, and concerning the dismissal of judges, as well prosecutors;
9) to exercise parliamentary scrutiny of the activities of law enforcement institutions, with the exception of the courts, and to prepare conclusions and proposals related thereto;
10) to prepare and present conclusions and recommendations to the Seimas concerning the activities of the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of the Interior, the Prosecutors Office and other law enforcement institutions;
11) according to the rulings of the Constitutional Court concerning non-conformity of laws and other acts, passed by the Seimas, with the Constitution, to prepare drafts of amendments of the said laws and other acts passed by the Seimas or to submit proposals to other committees to prepare such drafts.
