Given the geopolitical situation, the Seimas mainly focused on national security and defence matters in its spring session. Considerable attention was also paid to law enforcement, municipal, financial, economic, health care, social security, and other relevant issues. This session saw the delivery of the annual State of the Nation Address by Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of the Republic of Lithuania, and the Annual Performance Report of the Government.
Some of the key decisions made in the final sitting of the session concerned, among others, extension of the reduced VAT rate for heating and hot water until the end of next year; regulation of the payment of compensations for reduced retirement pensions of working pensioners; classification, for the next 75 years, of the information on the persons who confessed to having collaborated with the Soviet special services; postponing of the elimination of the secondary school type from the classification of schools; setting of stricter labelling requirements for tobacco products; and reimbursement, within 5 years, of the civil servants, prosecutors, judges and other public servants whose wages are regulated by law for the remuneration losses suffered due to wage cuts in relation to the economic crisis. At its sitting, the Seimas also adopted the Resolution regarding the marking of the 75th anniversary of the Statement by the United States Department of State concerning the non-recognition of the occupation of the Baltic States.
The Statute of the Seimas provides that the Seimas meets biannually in two regular spring and autumn sessions. The spring session opens on the 10th of March and closes on the 30th of June. The autumn session opens on the 10th of September and closes on the 23rd of December. The Members of the Seimas convene in regular sessions without a separate invitation.
