📋 Tender Overview
The government has agreed to pay for the consideration of architectural issues at meetings of regional architectural councils from the state budget. At the same time it is proposed to adopt requirements for the conclusions or recommendations of their members. This is expected to improve the quality of architecture the environment the public interest the design of buildings and the transparency of spatial planning.In addition there will be more opportunities to solve problematic cases of building design and spatial planning and the society and communities will be more actively involved in this process.Under the current procedure the regional architectural councils are paid for by the applicant which means that not all interested parties can turn to them for recommendations and expert opinions and there are a number of cases where architectural solutions remain unexamined.As the Law on Architecture assigns a public function to regional architectural councils - to provide recommendations expert conclusions on the quality of architectural solutions in certain cases state budget funds should be allocated for its implementation.The amendment to the law was initiated by Member of the Seimas Kasparas Adomaitis and the Seimas requested the conclusion of the Government.In order to ensure that the state budget funds are used as intended and efficiently the Government has submitted proposals to supplement the draft law. It is proposed that the regulations of the Regional Councils of Architecture regulate the qualitative requirements for the written conclusions and recommendations of the members of the councils participating in the meetings of the councils.The Ministry of the Environment should be provided with additional state budget appropriations for the organization of the meetings of the councils technical maintenance and remuneration of the members of the councils which it would transfer to the Chamber of Architects.The Governments proposal should also determine how many members of the council should attend the meetings and provide conclusions or recommendations on who and in what cases the state budget funds would be used how to determine the remuneration for organizing council meetings technical maintenance council members work and remuneration.The Chamber of Architects is expected to submit reports to the Ministry of the Environment on the state budget funds used to perform the functions of the councils.Taking into account that the Seimas in 2021. December 14 adopted by the Republic of Lithuania in 2022 It is proposed that the amended Law on Architecture enter into force in 2023. January 1
