Declaration of Private Interests

Every person working in public service — including state politicians, state officials, civil servants, persons working in state and municipal enterprises or budgetary institutions and holding administrative powers, heads and deputy heads of public limited liability companies and private limited liability companies in which shares carrying more than half of the votes at the general meeting of shareholders are owned by the state or a municipality, as well as other persons holding public administration powers — must declare private interests by submitting a declaration of private interests in accordance with the procedure established by theLaw on the Adjustment of Public and Private Interests, hereinafter referred to as the LAPPI, and other legal acts.

Description of the Procedure for the Adjustment of Public and Private Interests at the Fisheries Service under the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Lithuania.

Private interests mean the interest of the declaring person, or a person close to them, in personal material or non-material benefit, a moral debt, a moral obligation or any other similar interest of the declaring person, or a person close to them, when the declaring person performs their official duties.

Persons close to a person working in public service include their spouse, cohabiting partner, partner where the partnership is registered in accordance with the procedure established by law, as well as their parents, adoptive parents, children, adopted children, brothers, stepbrothers, sisters, stepsisters, grandparents, grandchildren and their spouses, cohabiting partners or partners.

A conflict of interest is a situation in which a declaring person, when performing official duties or carrying out an official assignment, must make or participate in making a decision, or carry out an assignment, that is also related to their private interests. If a person working in public service finds themselves in a conflict of interest situation and does not recuse themselves, that is, if they make or participate in making a decision related to their private interest, they violate the obligation to avoid conflicts of interest and the duty to recuse themselves.

More information on how to identify a conflict of interest and on recusal is available on the website of the Chief Official Ethics Commission.

Declaration is a relevant and continuous obligation. It is not an annual declaration and is not related to income or asset declarations.

A declaration must be submitted immediately, but no later than within 30 calendar days from the date of election, admission or appointment of the declaring person to a position, or from the date on which the declaring person acquires the relevant status.

The relevant data specified in Article 6(1) and 6(2) of the LAPPI must be declared.

If the data subject to declaration change, the declaration must be revised or supplemented immediately, but no later than within 30 calendar days.

Members of procurement commissions of contracting entities, persons appointed by heads of contracting entities to carry out simplified procurements, experts participating in procurement procedures carried out by contracting entities, and procurement initiators must submit or revise their declaration before the start of their participation in procurement procedures. In the declaration, they must indicate their duties performed in the procurement procedures and the data subject to declaration under Article 6(1) and 6(2) of the LAPPI.

Declarations of private interests are submitted through the Register of Private Interests, hereinafter referred to as PINREG. PINREG can be accessed via the website of the Chief Official Ethics Commission, www.vtek.lt, by identifying the declaring person through the Electronic Government Gateway.

A declaration must be revised or supplemented on the basis of the previously submitted declaration directly in the PINREG portal, by updating the most recently submitted declaration. Each time, a revised or supplemented declaration must be submitted together with all new data and/or relevant data remaining from the previous form that are still subject to declaration.

More information on how to complete, revise and submit a declaration of private interests is available in the Rules for Completing, Revising and Submitting Declarations of Private Interests.