Register of Legal Acts - TAR
State register
Published by: Lietuvos Respublikos Seimas (Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania)
Gedimino ave. 53/Gynėjų g. 8 — 01109 Vilnius
Lithuania
Tel. +370 52396999
E-mail: info@e-tar.lt
Website: www.e-tar.lt
Official journal / legal gazette
In Lithuania, Register of Legal Acts is the state e-register which takes over the function of the official publication of state and municipal legal acts of the Republic of Lithuania (e-documents version only).
First edition
29 December 1918 Valstybės žinios
21 May 1993 Valstybės žinios (official gazette) until 2014-01-01
Register of Legal Acts TAR as Official publication source since 2014-01-01
The electronic Register of Laws and Other Legal Acts since 1996-01-01
First online edition
The electronic Register of Laws and Other Legal Acts since 1996-01-01. It is official since 2014-01-01
Paper edition
not existing since 2014-01-01
Online edition
www.e-tar.lt
Access and texts are free Legally binding
The Valstybės žinios contains the following chapters:
Constitution;
Laws;
other Legislation of the Parliament (Seimas), the President of the Republic and the Government of the Republic, the Prime Minister, the Speaker of the Seimas, the Board of the Seimas, the Bank of Lithuania;
international treaties of the Republic of Lithuania ;
regulatory acts of ministers, heads of Government bodies and other state institutions and bodies and collegial institutions;
regulatory acts of municipal institutions, as well as legal acts adopted by municipal mayors the publication whereof in the Register of Legal Acts is mandatory under legal acts;
regulatory acts adopted by the management bodies of associations, state or municipal enterprises and public bodies authorised to perform public administration, whose owner or stakeholder is the State or a municipality;
legal acts having individual application adopted by ministers, heads of Government bodies and other state and municipal institutions and bodies and collegial institutions, as well as by the Board of the Bank of Lithuania or the Chairman of the Board and the management bodies of associations, state or municipal enterprises and public bodies authorised to perform public administration in accordance with the procedure laid down by legal acts, whose owner or stakeholder is the State or a municipality, the publication whereof in the Register of Legal Acts is mandatory under legal acts;
rulings and decisions of the Constitutional Court;
decisions, judgments and rulings of the Supreme Court of Lithuania and the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania, as well as effective decisions of administrative courts regarding the legitimacy of regulatory administrative acts; Consolidated versions of legal acts.
Legal basis
Republic of Lithuania Law on Legislative Framework No XI-2220
Legally binding
Electronic legal acts signed by authorised entities with e-signature
special features of specialized information system TAIS for drafting.
Workflow
Drafting, consideration of draft legal acts, adopting of legal acts, signing with e-signature, official publication and promulgation entry into force are implemented in the related information systems – Legal Acts Information System and Register of Legal Acts.
