Lithuania

This section offers a summary of the main legislation on transitional justice adopted by the member state and, when available, a pdf with the document, together with the main decisions of national and international tribunals in relation to these measures. This is a non exhaustive list and will be updated and completed in a permanent basis. We also offer images of the museums that deal with memory issues in each EU country.

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Legislation

 

Main provisions

Year

Law on rehabilitation of persons repressed for resistance to occupation regime (last amended on November 13, 2008, No. X-1814) (see text here)

1990

Decree Nº 418 Banning KGB Employees and Informers from Government Positions

1991

Law on the Restoration of the Rights of Ownership of Citizens to the Existing Real Property (see text here)

1991

Law on  State Pensions (see text here)

1994

Law on Documents and Archives

1995

Public apologies speech (see text here)

1995

Law on the Centre of Research of the Genocide and Resistance of the Lithuanian Population

1997

Law on the Legal Status of the People of the Republic of Lithuania Who Fell Victims to the Occupations of 1939-1990

1997

Law on the Restitution of Remaining Immovable Property Rights of the Citizens of The Republic of Lithuania

1997

Law on State Support to the Participants of Armed Resistance

1997

Law on State Support to Families of the Fallen Participants of the Resistance against the 1940-1990 Occupations

1998

International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania; composed by International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania

1998

Law on Registering, Confession, Entry into Records and Protection of the Persons Who Have Admitted to Secret Collaboration with Special Services of the Former USSR

1999

Law on the Assessment of the USSR State Security Committee (NKVD, NKGB, MGB, KGB) and the Current Activities of the Staff Members of this Organisation (see text here)

1999

Law on Compensation of Damage Resulting from the Occupation by the USSR (see text here)

2000

Rules of Procedure of the International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and the Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania

2000

Amendments to the Law on the Legal Status of Participants of Resistance to 1939-1990 Occupations (1997)

2007