Lithuania’s Seimas on Friday adopted a new Law on Lobbying Activities establishing the so-called “cross-declaration” that requires both lobbyists, and politicians and public servants who have contact with lobbyists to report lobbying activities.
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The ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) plans to make it mandatory for politicians to declare their meetings with lobbyists.
The Lithuanian parliament on Thursday postponed the adoption of a new law on lobbying activities after the Foreign Ministry said that the version of the legislation proposed by the Seimas Committee on State Administration and Local Authorities was not in line with the Organization for Economic Coope...
Official figures show that Lithuanian lawmakers have been approached by a small number of lobbyists over the last year but experts say the official numbers are just the tip of the iceberg, with actual extent of unofficial lobbying in the Lithuanian parliament much bigger.
One third of Lithuanian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have tried to influence political decisions in the last two years, but less than half (46%) made those attempts public, according a survey of NGO representatives commissioned by the Lithuanian branch of Transparency International (TILS).
An international transparency NGO is calling for more information on lobbying, links to business and party financing to be made public in Lithuania.
