§ Article 14The Powers of the Central Electoral Committee

1. The Central Electoral Committee shall guarantee uniform application of the laws on elections and referendum on the whole territory of the Republic of Lithuania. For this purpose, it shall issue implementation rules for these laws of the Republic of Lithuania. Observation of these rules shall be obligatory for all institutions and officials. The decisions of the Central Electoral Committee may be revised only by the Central Electoral Committee itself or by an effective court ruling. Institutions of state government and administration, the Seimas members and other officials, parties, political and public organisations or citizens shall be prohibited from interfering with the activities of the Central Electoral Committee related to organisation of elections or a referendum.
2. When conducting elections to the Seimas under the requirements of this Law , the Central Electoral Committee shall:
1) divide the territory of Lithuania into one-member constituencies;
2) form constituency electoral committees;
3) accept application documents concerning the nomination of candidates for the Seimas, examine them; upon establishing that the documents are in conformity with the requirements of this Law, register the candidates and lists of candidates, and make public the lists of nominees who will participate in the elections, the numbers they have been assigned, and the candidates nominated in single-member constituencies;
4) establish the samples and forms of ballot papers and other documents used during the elections, of packages and seals, also samples for their filling them out, and the procedure of stamping the ballot papers;
5) manage the election funds allocated by the State;
6) supervise the implementation of this Law;
7) investigate complaints and adopt decisions concerning decisions of constituency electoral committees and, where necessary, also of polling district committees, also revoke decisions which do not meet the requirements of laws or other legal acts
8) discharge the functions of the multi-member constituency electoral committee;
9) establish and announce the final results of the elections;
10) issue certificates of the Seimas member of the Republic of Lithuania to the elected candidates;
11) hand over the vote counting and other records of electoral committees to the State Archives; and
12) approve a model description of the polling station and the surrounding territory and together with municipality mayors take measures to ensure that the polling stations, their equipment and the surrounding territory conform to the established requirements;
13) discharge other powers provided for by this Law.
3. During the period between elections, the Central Electoral Committee shall perform the functions of the Mandate Committee of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania: adopt and announce decisions upon lapse of the Seimas member’s powers; acknowledge the powers of new Seimas members elected in the multi-member constituency, by election or run-off elections in a single-member constituency.
4. The Central Electoral Committee shall sum up the election-related experience, together with other State institutions promote the importance of free, democratic and fair elections, seek to raise awareness of the electorate. It shall also maintain contacts with the institutions of other states which organise and conduct elections in these states.
5. The Central Electoral Committee may not interpret the provisions of this Law. If there is a need for that, the Central Electoral Committee shall apply to the Seimas for amendment of this Law. The Seimas shall consider questions submitted by the Central Electoral Committee as a matter of great urgency.