Constitution

Texts

Constitution 1928

Constitution 1978

Constitution 1992 

Religious Communities

National and International Agreements

Concordat between the Holy See and the Government of Lithuania

Agreement between the Holy See and the Republic of Lithuania concerning the legal aspects of the relations between the Catholic Church and the State in 2000

Erection of new ecclesiastical jurisdictions 1926 

Laws and decrees

Law on the confessions and religious communities in 1995

Ratification of agreements between the State and the Holy See catholic church

Register of Legal Entities – Resolution No. 1407 of November 12, 2003

Order No. 1 R-275 documents of the Ministry of Justice in 2012 

Regulations, Decisions, Provisions, Ordinances, Circulars

Registration of religious denominations

Joint statement of the Lithuanian Bishops’ Conference and the University Rectors Conference

Order no. 287/2003 about documents needed to registrer political parties and religious confessions

Decision nr. 10/2016 of the Constitutional Court on the differences in the treatment of traditional and non-traditional confessions

Decision of the Constitutional Court on the differences in treatment of traditional confessions 2007

Decision of the Constitutional Court nr. 347/2009 on the activities of esoteric religious groups

Constitutional Court Ruling on religious instruction in public schools and difference in treatment among religious faiths 2000 

Statutes and Internal Rules

Statute of the lithuanian bishops’ conference 2001

Associations and traditional religious societies, other religions recognized by the state and spiritual communities in 2011

Statute of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in 2008 

Bodies And Church Properties

Confiscation, Restitution and Compensation of Properties of Religious Communities

Law on the restitution of religious buildings in 1990

Restitution of property to religious faiths in 1995

Restitution of movable property to the Catholic Church in 2005

Hebrews – Jewish school building return Vilnius – Decision

Lutheran Church – return-building arrangement

Hebrews – return plunge buildings – disposal

Hebrews – return Telsiai building – Decision

Law on the compensation of municipal assets confiscated from Jewish communities

Presidium of the Supreme Council of Lithuanian SSR decree on the nationalization of homes and buildings, monasteries, religious communities in 1948

SSR Supreme Council Presidium. Ordinance big house owned in urban and industrial areas of nationalization in 1940

Property rights of the Catholic Church and Recovery Act of movable cultural property in 2005

Government Decree N 925-2003 on the State Prize ownership of land donated to the religious communities, community centers and rules for the approval

Law of quantity, sources, terms and method of payment, as well as the guarantees and facilities provided to the property rights to the original owners in 1998

Law Sources on amounts, terms and conditions of payment guarantees and facilities provided for the rights of property owners to the current consolidated text 2013

Rights of ownership on the existing property of religious communities in 1995

Law on ownership of goods of religious communities and the registration procedures in 1995

Judgment 2A-197-160 / 2014 on the restitution of property to the Lithuanian religious community

On the acquisition of ownership of land under Article 47 of the Constitution, 1996

Constitutional Court decision on the recovery procedure related to properties of the religious communities in 2012

Restitution of property confiscated to Catholic Church in 1990

Resolution no. 460/1948 on the regulation for the nationalization of the houses of worship and the monastic buildings

Government Regulation No. 1053/1994 on the technical regulation on geological areas and on geotechnical investigations

Land reform Act – consolidated version in 2000 

Taxation

Local authorities act in 1994

Income Tax Act 2002 

Sustenance of the Clergy and Financing of Religious Communities

Leggi e decreti

Law and state social pension insurance for the basic part of the pension funds of the state for clergy and nuns in 2005

Law and state social pension insurance for the basic part of the state pension funds for clergy and nuns – consolidated version 2011 

Individual and Collective Religious Freedom and Minorities

Religious Assistance

Agreement between the Holy See and the Republic of Lithuania about the spiritual care of Catholics serving in the Army in 2000

Statute of the Military Ordinariate 2000 

Measures

Law on Equal Opportunities – 2005

Law on Equal Treatment in 2003

Law on Equal Treatment in 2008 

Cemeteries

Hebrew – cemetery genocide victims

Hebrew – declaration of state about genocide

Hebrew – day in memory of the Shoah – Decision

Hebrew – the conservation of memory

Approval of the management rules on the regulation of the Cemeteries 1990

Council Decision on the Panevezys Municipality management of cemeteries in 2013

Decision on the Kaunas cemetery management

General Law on the conditions and burial procedures consolidated text 2016

Management of the Vilnius cemetery: rules entrusting the management to religious communities

Regulations on the management of the Vilnius cemetery 2014

Concession rules of the Šilutės cemetery management to religious confessions in 2007

Management rules of a religious cemetery 2006

Resolution No. 925/2003 on the State Award on the ownership of land donated to religious communities

Concession and operating regulations of the cemetery of Klaipeda 2012

Maintenance Rules of the of Crosses Hill

Maintenance and management of the Balvos cemetery

Mandatory rules for the maintenance of the Kundingas cemetery

Management Rules of the Kekava district cemetery 

Emigration and Labour

Laws and decrees

Law on Equal Treatment 2003

Law on Equal Treatment 2003, as amended in 2008

Ordinance on Social insurance, Social Security and Labour 2011 

Teaching of Religion and Religious Schools

National and International Agreements

Treaty of cooperation on education and culture 2000 

Laws and decrees

Teaching of religion in public schools

Ratification agreement teaching of religion 

Case law

Constitutional Court ruling of 2000 on the law on education 

Provisions of the Criminal Code

Codes

Criminal Code 2000 abstract

Criminal Code 2000

Criminal Code in force

Family

Laws and decrees

Repeal – religious marriage ban civil recognition in 1970

Law on Gender Equality in 1998 and subsequent amendments

Procedures for performing a surgical termination of pregnancy 1994 

Provisions of the Civil Code

Codes

Civil Code 2000 

Museums, Libraries, Archives and Cultural Heritage

Laws and decrees

Hebrew – museum loan repayment exemption

Hebrews – reconstruction scientific institute – Decision

Hebrew – Jewish restitution building downtown culture – Decision

Hebrew – return thora 2000

Amendment to the Law on Protection of Cultural Property in 2004

Implementation of the Law on Law in 1995 museums

Implementation of the Law on Protection of Cultural Property in 1995

Archives Act 1995

Law on museums in 1995

Law on Libraries in 1995

Law on the Protection of the immovable assets of cultural heritage 1994 

Communication

Laws and decrees

Law on Access to radio and television 2005