National legislation

This Law establishes the principles of supervision over the public health, the structure of the system of supervision and state regulation with a view of guaranteeing the public health and ensuring safety of public health. Supervision over the public health includes ensuring safe natural environment and...

This Ministerial Decree establishes that licences for the manufacturing of alcohol-containing products shall be issued, registered and renewed by the State Tobacco and Alcohol Supervision Service by agreement with the Ministry of Public Health and the Ministry of Agriculture. It regulates licensing of the manufacturing of...

The purpose of this Law is to lay down the provisions relating to the classification, packaging, labelling, notification of new chemical substances. The objective of the Law is to protect human health and the environment from potential risks which could arise from the intrinsic properties of...

The Law consists of 5 Chapters; General Provisions (I); Requirements for food and its handling (II); The powers of state administration institutions and public consumer rights protection organizations (III); State Food Control (IV) and Final provisions (V). There are provisions relating to requirements for consumer information...

The Government of the Republic of Lithuania hereby has resolved to approve the procedure for the importation of foodstuffs into the Republic of Lithuania and the control of safety and quality of such foodstuffs (appended). This procedure shall regulate the importation of foodstuffs (including foodstuffs intended...

This Law shall establish general requirements for product safety, the principles of state and public control of product safety, the procedure for providing and communicating information about dangerous products, the duties and liability of producers, sellers and suppliers of services for placing dangerous products on the...

Government of the Republic of Lithuania hereby has resolved: 1. To approve the procedure of the importation of foodstuffs into the Republic of Lithuania and the control of harmlessness and quality of such foodstuffs (appended). The procedure of the importation of foodstuffs into the Republic of...

The following types of licences shall be established for the manufacture of alcohol products: 1. for beer: of group I (small beer) (which contains no more than 2.25 percent of ethyl alcohol by volume); of group II (semi-strong beer) (which contains more than 2.25 percent and...

The purpose of this Law is to standardise the relationships between growers of sugar beet, processors of sugar beet, traders and other participants in the sugar market and government institutions and to establish the necessary conditions for the implementation of a State Sugar Policy. The declared...

These Regulations establish the obligatory requisites of the labelling of goods and the procedure for labelling thereof. Section 1 lists the basic documents that relate to the labelling of documents including the name of the goods and reference number of the statutory document. There are special...

With the aim of protecting Lithuanian market from foodstuffs of low quality and hazardous to human health the Government of the Republic of Lithuania resolves: to approve the order of import foodstuffs into the Republic of Lithuania and their quality control (attached). Only the foodstuffs that...

The objective of this law is to regulate the economic relations between agricultural economic entities and state institutions and agricultural market partners, to establish the basic state regulatory measures of these relations, to facilitate the implementation of agrarian policies and to sustain the balance of agricultural...

The Law establishes and guarantees the rights of the population as the consumers of goods and services, and protects their economic and social interests. It regulates the relations between consumers and sellers or service suppliers that have been registered in the established manner if the relations...

The scope of this Act includes the formulation of: the general requirements for food products quality; to prescribe procedures for the laying down of conditions for producing, importing, trading, advertising of such products, control over the quality of food products and their tare, and the marking...