Activities

The remit of the Committee on Education and Science shall be:

1) to consider and present proposals concerning the formulation of the state policy of education, science, information technologies, nation’s historical memory and the state language;

2) to prepare and consider proposals and drafts of laws, resolutions and other legal acts pending the adoption by the Seimas and regulating education, science, information technologies, nation’s historical memory and the use of the state language;

3) to consider and submit conclusions on drafts of laws, resolutions and other legal acts pending the adoption by the Seimas and related to the issues of education, science, information technologies, nation’s historical memory and the state language as well as other drafts, evaluating their conformity with the state policy regarding the said issues;

4) to prepare proposals and recommendations for the Government and local authorities concerning education, science, nation’s historical memory and the state language;

5) to exercise parliamentary scrutiny of the Ministry of Education and Science, educational, scientific, information technologies, nation’s historical memory institutions, to hear information and reports of the ministries, other state institutions and agencies regarding the implementation laws and other legal acts adopted by the Seimas and related to the matters falling within the remit of the Committee;

6) to examine the use of the appropriations of the state budget of the Republic of Lithuania allocated for the fields within the remit of the Committee and to evaluate the efficiency of the use thereof.

Article 66 of the Statue of the Seimas