Republic of Lithuania materials on international law 2017

Republic of Lithuania Materials on International Law 2017 (RLMIL2017) are drafted and classified pursuant to Recommendation (97)11 of 12 June 1997 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. 2. For the ease of reading a number of abbreviations are used in RLMIL2017, namely ECHR – Convention for Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, 1950; ECtHR – ECtHR; Seimas – Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania; Government – Government of the Republic of Lithuania. Unless explicitly provided for otherwise, references to cases or decisions in RLMIL2017 are references to acts of national courts and institutions. Cases decided by national courts referred to herein are available in Lithuanian free of charge at the following websites: www.lat.lt (Case-law of the Supreme Court), www.lvat.lt (Case-law of the Supreme Administrative Court). Most of the case-law of the Constitutional Court is available on its website http://www.lrkt.lt/index_e.html. Case-law of the European Court of Human Rights is available through the website http://www.echr.coe.int/echr/. Bilateral agreements of Lithuania are mostly available in Lithuanian at the following website: www.lrs.lt. Universal and regional international instruments mentioned in RLMIL2017 do not bear any reference to their source, as may be easily accessed from various pages on the internet. Due to limited scope, the RLMIL2017 does not reproduce entire texts, therefore certain information is omitted and marked as […]. 3. RLMIL2017 consists mainly from translations of texts made by the authors; therefore, translations shall not be regarded as official and shall be used for information purposes only. Documents the translations of which are provided by national institutions and are available in English on the internet are attached with a particular link. 4. A rather technical remark shall be made in regard to ratifications of Seimas and approvals of Government, noted in Appendix hereto, meaning expression of consent to be bound under national law, rather than meaning of international act, attributed to the notion “ratification” in the Article 2 part 1(b) of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, 1969.