• The Ministry of Culture is the central institution for  cultural policy formation, planning, co-ordination, monitoring, financing, and legal issues;
• The Ministry of Culture sets and develops general culture policy guidelines;
• The Committee of Education, Science and Culture of the Seimas deals with various cultural development issues, discusses questions of current interest and adopts decisions; it also analyses culture-related legislation;
• Since 2013, the Council of Culture has been assigned to perform the following key functions:

1. providing co-financing to culture and art projects, programmes and other measures on the grounds of competitive selection of projects, based on the cultural expert analysis, conclusions, and recommendations;
2. administrating the Culture Support Fund;
3. cooperating with state and municipal institutions and bodies and with foreign counterparts.
   

Local authorities are responsible for:

• Cultivating general culture and fostering  ethnoculture of the population (participation in culture  development projects; establishment, reorganisation, transformation, liquidation of museums, theatres, culture centres and other cultural institutions as well as supervision of their activities);
• Organising of culture events;
• Financing and maintenance of local cultural institutions and cultural heritage;
• Establishment and protection of locally protected areas of the cultural heritage (tangible heritage);
• Control of use and accuracy of the State language.

Sources:

Under the supervision of Professors Michael Keating and Jacques Ziller, Study on the Division of Powers between the EU, the Member States and regional and Local Authorities, European University Institute, Florence, 2008.

Ministry of Culture

Law on Local Self-Government,

Law on the Principles of State Protection of Ethnic Culture

Law on the Lithuanian Council for Culture

Lithuania, Country Profile, Compendium Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe. 2014

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