§ Article 37Application Documents for the Nomination of Candidates

1. Parties must file with the Central Electoral Committee the following application documents:
1) an application for the participation in the elections;
2) copies of their registration papers; the programme and the election programme of the party may be submitted as well;
3) the list of nominated candidates;
4) consent of each nominated candidate to be a candidate nominated by this party, a questionnaire filled in by the candidate to the European Parliament himself, as well as extract containing the basic data from the income and property declarations, presented to the State Tax Inspectorate, approved by that tax inspectorate to which the declarations have been submitted. The party must also submit photographs and autobiography of each candidate;
5) an authorisation for a representative for elections to represent it in the Central Electoral Committee; the party shall also have the right to grant authorisation to represent it and the candidates nominated by it in the electoral committees of municipalities;
6) documents certifying that the election deposit has been paid;
7) if the party nominated candidates or candidates’ lists during the preceding elections to the Seimas, the European Parliament or municipal councils, it shall have the right to submit a copy of the report published in the press, which had to be published in pursuance of the Laws on the Elections to the Seimas, the European Parliament, Municipal Councils, concerning the sources and use of funds for campaigning;
8) a copy of the financial statement for the preceding year, which had to be presented to the tax inspectorate pursuant to the Law on Political Parties and Political Organisations, and which was approved by the said tax inspectorate; as well as the information about the cash at bank and in hand, received during the period from 1 January of the current year till the first day of the month when the documents were submitted. The party may also submit a copy of the account (report), which had to be publicly announced according to the Law on Political Parties and Political Organisations, concerning the budget revenue, the sources and expenditure thereof.
2. In the questionnaire of a candidate for a member of the European Parliament, a person who has been nominated as a candidate must fill in the following data himself: surname, name, number of the passport or any other document confirming citizenship, personal code, date of birth, address of the permanent place of residence, whether or not he has an unserved term of the court-imposed sentence, whether or not he is in the active military or alternative national defence service, whether or not he is an officer, non-commissioned officer or re-enlistee of the national defence system, police and the internal affairs service, who has not retired from service, as well as an officer of other military-type or security service, who is on the payroll, whether or not he is a statutory public servant, and a citizen of any other Member State of the European Union must, in addition to the said documents, indicate the home Member State, whether or not he has been deprived of the right to vote in this State, as well as to answer the questions specified in Article 93 of this Law, and to sign the questionnaire. Other questions, additionally established by the Central Electoral Committee, may also be included in the questionnaire of a candidate for a member of the European Parliament, to which the person is not bound to give answers.
5. The filing of application documents shall commence 65 days before and shall end at 5:00 p.m. 34 days before the elections. The application documents filed after the deadline for filing such documents may not be recognised as application documents.