Article 54. Exemption from Editorial Responsibility and Compensation for Damage 1. Editorial responsibility shall not apply to a producer and/or disseminator of public information and they shall not be held liable for publication of false information where they have indicated the source of information and it has been: 1) provided in official or publicly available documents of state and municipal institutions and agencies, political parties, trade unions and associations or other persons; 2) publicly stated in open meetings, sessions, press conferences, demonstrations and other events, and the producer of public information has not distorted the statements made. In this case, all responsibility shall fall on the organisers of the aforementioned events and persons who have made the information public; 3) published earlier in other media if the information has not been refuted in the media wherein it has been published; 4) published by participants of live programmes and internet conferences, viewers of interactive television or users of information society media who are not related to the producer of public information; 5) published in a special election campaign programme which has not been produced by the producer of public information; 6) presented in non-anonymous advertising announcements; 7) presented in the form of an opinion, commentary or evaluation. 2. In the cases specified in paragraph 1 of this Article, liability for the publication of false information shall fall upon those who were the first to publish such information. I promulgate this Law passed by the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania. PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC ALGIRDAS BRAZAUSKAS Annex to Republic of Lithuania Law on the Provision of Information to the Public LEGAL ACTS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION IMPLEMENTED BY THIS LAW 1. Council Directive 89/552/EEC of 3 October 1989 on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the pursuit of television broadcasting activities (OJ 2004, special edition, Chapter 6, Volume 1, p. 224) with the latest amendments