The Ministry of the Economy and Innovation continues to invest in building a digital Lithuania. In order to accelerate the digital transformation of the public sector, 23 more priority projects will be funded to develop digital solutions. The digital solutions to be implemented by public sector bodies will cover a wide range of services, from protecting children's rights, health care or educational support services to increasing the availability of statistical data and introducing artificial intelligence solutions. Around €21 million from the Next Generation Lithuania plan will be allocated to the Recovery and Resilience Facility.

The distribution of the eighth issue Government savings notes (GSN) ended on Monday, where residents purchased GSN for EUR 3.3 million and 186 transactions were made. Residents will be paid 3.3 per cent of annual interest on this new one-year GSN issue.

The Ministry of Finance, together with the Bank of Lithuania, has prepared and submitted for re-coordination with other institutions several draft amendments to the laws, which will establish new operational requirements for crypto-asset service providers and consolidate their licensing process.

With Lithuania planning to develop two offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea with a combined capacity of 1.4 GW, the Ministry of Energy has approved a procedure for the supervision and assessment of the obligations of the successful developers. The Lithuanian Energy Agency (LEA) will act as a supervisory authority during the construction and operation of the offshore wind farms.

Lithuania's digital public services are among the most advanced in the European Union (EU). According to the Lithuanian Digital Decade Report 2023, Lithuania scored 84 points (EU average 77) for public services for citizens, 94 points (EU average 84) for public services for businesses and 92 points (EU average 72) for access to electronic health records.

The risk-sharing partnership model which was introduced by Lithuanian Airports and successfully connected Vilnius Airport with London City airport last year is continuing. Lithuanian airports and the airline airBaltic have signed a joint investment agreement, under which regular flights will operate from Vilnius Airport to the German port city of Hamburg and the capital of Portugal, Lisbon.

The shape of the main railway line is becoming visible in the Jonava district in Lithuania – a railway track and engineering structures are being built on a section of almost 30 km. Some of the engineering structures, such as animal crossings and one of the tunnels, are almost complete.

On 5-8 March, the Minister of the Economy and Innovation, Aušrinė Armonaitė, is paying a working visit to New York, where she will open the North American-Lithuanian Business Forum ("NAALBF"). It will bring together nearly 300 representatives of Lithuanian and US companies. The Minister will also meet with potential US investors to discuss opportunities to expand their operations in Lithuania.

Early Tuesday, negotiators from Parliament and Council reached a provisional agreement on new rules that ban products made with forced labour from the EU market.

The Ministry of Finance has prepared the draft amendments to the Law on Excise Duty, which propose to introduce new excise duty rates on alcohol and tobacco and alternative products in 2025–2027. After three years, the State budget revenue is expected to increase by about EUR 126.7 million, thus maintaining a relatively stable excise share in the structure of tax revenue.