§ Article 11Meetings of the Central Electoral Commission

1. At its meetings the Central Electoral Commission shall consider issues that are within its competence and collegially adopt decisions.
2. The Chairperson of the Central Electoral Commission shall convene meetings of the Central Electoral Commission on his own initiative. Moreover, he must convene a meeting of the Central Electoral Commission if not less than 1/3 of the Commission members request so.
3. A meeting of the Central Electoral Commission shall be legal if not less than 3/5 of the Commission members participate in it.
4. Meetings and voting of the Central Electoral Commission shall be public. Information about a meeting of the Central Electoral Commission shall be announced in the billboard situated in the building in which the headquarters of the Commission is located, a well as on the website, and the Commission members shall be individually informed about it not later than 24 hours before the beginning of a meeting.
5. The Central Electoral Commission shall announce agendas of the meetings on the website when the following issues are planned to be considered and resolved:
1) the date of by-elections and run-off elections;
2) setting of boundaries of the constituencies;
3) the formation and change of the composition of electoral or referendum committees of constituencies, cities, regions;
4) registration of candidates or an initiative group of citizens of the Republic of Lithuania for the conducting of a referendum;
5) issues resolved by drawing lots;
6) determining of the results of calculation of votes of elections and referendums, the final results of elections and referendums;
7) recognition of the Seimas member's powers as being terminated;
8) recognition of the powers of a new Seimas member;
9) setting of the number of municipal councillors;
10) registration of candidates for municipal councillors;
11) recognition of the municipal councillor's powers as being terminated;
12) recognition of the powers of a new municipal councillor;
13) compliance of the registration of an initiative group of citizens of the Republic of Lithuania for the conducting of a referendum and the signatures of voters, collected by it, with the requirements, as well as disputes concerning violations of election or referendum campaigning, or election laws or the Law on Referendum.
6. Representatives and observers of the parties, public election committees, candidates for Seimas members, candidates for President of the Republic, and candidates for municipal councillors, an initiative group of citizens of the Republic of Lithuania for the holding of a referendum may observe meetings of the Central Electoral Commission, upon presenting a certificate of an established form, as well as representatives of the mass media, upon presenting their authority or service cards.
7. A candidate for Seimas member, a candidate for President of the Republic and a candidate for municipal councillor may participate in a meeting of the Central Electoral Commission where matters concerning his personal activities or circumstances directly related to his person are being considered or if he has been invited to participate in the meeting by the Commission Chairperson.
8. Persons present in the meeting room of the Central Electoral Commission may, from their seats, record, write down in shorthand or take down everything that is said at the meeting, photograph, film or make video recordings as well as conduct live radio or television broadcasting of meetings.
9. Live broadcasting of meetings of the Central Electoral Commission shall be conducted on the website of the Central Electoral Commission in accordance with the procedure laid down by the Central Electoral Commission.
10. The Central Electoral Commission may prohibit anyone from entering the workroom of the secretariat staff of the Commission, document safe-keeping premises if it is necessary to guarantee undisturbed working conditions of the staff and to protect election and referendum documents.
11. If there are reasons to believe that during a meeting of the Central Electoral Commission a threat to the security of the participants of a meeting may arise, the Commission Chairperson may instruct the police to check the documents and belongings of the persons entering the meeting room or carry out their personal search.
12. The Central Electoral Commission may remove from the meeting room persons who interfere with the work of the Commission.
13. Minutes of all meetings of the Central Electoral Commission shall be taken. The Chairperson and the secretary of the Commission shall sign the minutes.