consecutive terms of office. The Council of the Foundation shall be headed by the chairman of the Council. He shall be elected by the Council of the Foundation from its members for the term of office of the Council. Decisions of the Council of the Foundation shall be adopted by a simple majority vote of all members of the Council; in the event of a tie vote, the chairman of the Council of the Foundation shall have the casting vote. The Council of the Foundation shall operate in compliance with the rules of procedure approved by it. The Council of the Foundation shall take decisions regarding the results of tenders on the basis of the conclusions presented by expert groups. Expert groups shall be formed and operate in accordance with the regulations approved by the Council of the Foundation. 3. Sources of funding of the Foundation shall be: 1) state grants (subsidies); 2) funds contributed by legal or natural persons; 3) annual fees for the licences of broadcasters and re-broadcaster of radio and/or television programmes registered in the Republic of Lithuania; 4) interest on the funds of the Foundation kept in banks; 5) other lawfully acquired funds. 4. The Foundation shall, on the basis of a separate estimate, allocate funds to the Ethics Commission of Journalists and Publishers for the performance of functions established by laws. 5. The Foundation shall, by tender, select providers of newspaper delivery services and shall allocate the funds of the Foundation to partly reimburse the costs of newspaper delivery incurred by them. 6. The Foundation shall, by tender, support cultural and educational projects of producers of public information under the following six programmes: 1) cultural, art publications; 2) educational publications; 3) regional media (regional, local newspapers, magazines or other special publications, radio and television); 4) radio and television; 5) the Internet media (information society media); 6) cultural education of children and youth. 7. General provisions for tenders, drawn up by the Council of the Foundation, which represent the proportions of programmes and funding and which have been coordinated at a joint meeting of the Seimas Committee on Education, Science and Culture and the Seimas Committee on the Development of Information Society, shall be approved by the Government. 8. The Foundation shall each year publish in the press its annual activity report, while the chairman of the Council of the Foundation shall each year at a plenary meeting of the Seimas present the annual report on the allocation and use of the funds received from the budget. Article 29. Fair Competition in the Field of Provision of Information to the Public

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