Today, the official application of Lithuania to host the Anti-Money Laundering Agency (AMLA) in Lithuania signed by Minister of Finance Gintarė Skaistė was submitted to the European Commission.

Winter flight season will start along at the end of October and bring changes to the Lithuanian Airports: destinations popular during cold season will be included in the schedule again as well as completely new ones, and some flights will be temporarily excluded until spring-summer season. According to data of the Lithuanian Airports, this winter it will be possible to reach 36 European cities by regular flights from Vilnius Airport, 16 cities from Kaunas Airport and 4 cities from Palanga Airport.

Following the Government's approval today, preparations will begin for the reconstruction of three sections of the Via Baltica international motorway from Kaunas to the border with Latvia, with plans to be deliberated for the development of the engineering infrastructure of transport communications. The total length of these roads is almost 160 kilometres.

Minister of the Economy and Innovation Aušrinė Armonaitė has awarded 260 scholarships to students enrolled in state-funded STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) study programmes. This year, scholarships were awarded to students from nine regional higher education institutions.

At a meeting on Monday, the Cabinet of Ministers approved adding new investments to the plan "New Generation Lithuania", which received a positive assessment by the European Commission (EC), and its submission to the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) for approval. After the endorsement by the EC, the modification of the Plan is planned to be finally approved by the Council by the end of this year.

On Tuesday, Minister of the Economy and Innovation Aušrinė Armonaitė submited to the Seimas for consideration two amendments to draft laws aimed at improving Lithuania's investment climate. One of them is to establish new criteria for large projects and, based on them, to apply corporate tax relief and other special investment and business conditions.

The Government has approved a proposal by the Ministry of the Economy and Innovation to restore the territory of the Kaunas Free Economic Zone (FEZ) as previously envisaged.

The Ministry of the Economy and Innovation announces a second call for the digitalisation of public sector services, worth around €19 million. The first call already selected 55 projects from public authorities, state-owned companies and municipalities for €95 million.

The Internal Market Committee adopted its position on new measures to strengthen the right to repair and promote sustainable consumption.

Vice-Minister of Finance Mindaugas Liutvinskas had a meeting with President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola in Brussels, where he presented Lithuania's candidacy in order to attract the newly created Anti-Money Laundering Authority of the European Union (EU) to Vilnius.