7. The powers of a member of the Commission shall expire upon the entry into force of a decision by
the management body of the institution or organisation which has appointed him on appointing a new
member.
8. Members of the Seimas and the Government, members of the Council of the National Radio and
Television of Lithuania, civil servants of political (personal) confidence, persons linked with broadcasters
and re-broadcasters of radio and/or television programmes and providers of on-demand audiovisual media
services by employment relations also participants of broadcasters and re-broadcasters of radio and/or
television programmes and providers of on-demand audiovisual media services may not be appointed as
members of the Commission. Family members of members of the Commission may not be participants of
broadcasters and re-broadcasters of radio and/or television programmes or providers of on-demand
audiovisual media services. Members of political parties, when appointed to the Commission, shall suspend
their membership in the political party and participation in the activities thereof until the end of their term of
office in the Commission.
9. Members of the Commission shall elect the chairman of the Commission by majority vote of all
members of the Commission for a term of two years.
10. Meetings shall be the main form of work of the Commission. The meetings shall be convened at
least once a month by the chairman of the Commission on his own initiative or at the request of at least onethird of members of the Commission. Information about the planned meetings and their agenda shall be
published in the press or on the Commission’s website.
11. Meetings of the Commission shall be open to the public. A meeting of the Commission may be
closed where there is a need to protect the privacy or property of a person, also if a public hearing may
disclose state, professional or commercial secrets.
12. Meetings of the Commission shall be considered valid if attended by at least two-thirds of its
members. The Commission shall take decisions. The decisions shall be taken by a simple majority vote of all
the members of the Commission, except for the cases specified in this Law. The decisions on issuing or
refusal to issue a licence, also on imposing penalties, changing the terms and conditions of the licence,
tender conditions and results, suspension or revocation of a licence shall be taken by at least a two-third
majority vote of all the members of the Commission. The aforementioned decisions, except for the decisions
on changing the terms and conditions of the licence and tender conditions, shall be taken by a secret vote.
13. Decisions of the Commission shall be signed by its chairman or any other person authorised by
the Commission. The decisions of the Commission which are regulations shall be published in the official
gazette Valstybės žinios, except for decisions on the calls for tenders, issuance of licences, temporary
suspension of licences and revocation of licences which shall be published in the supplement Informaciniai
pranešimai to the official gazette Valstybės žinios. The decisions of the Commission shall enter into force on
the following day after their publication, unless a later date of their entry into force is set in the said
decisions. Other individual legal acts adopted by the Commission shall be published on the Commission’s
website – in the information society media the manager whereof the Commission is, and shall enter into
force on the day of their publication, unless a later date of their entry into force is set in the said legal acts.
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