The Seimas:

1) shall consider and adopt amendments to the Constitution;

2) shall pass laws;

3) shall adopt resolutions on referendums;

4) shall call elections for the President of the Republic of Lithuania;

5) shall establish State institutions provided for by law and appoint and dismiss their heads;

6) shall or shall not give assent to the candidature of the Prime Minister submitted by the President of the Republic;

7) shall consider the programme of the Government presented by the Prime Minister and decide whether to give assent to it;

8) shall, on the proposal of the Government, establish and abolish ministries of the Republic of Lithuania;

9) shall supervise the activities of the Government, and may express no-confidence in the Prime Minister or a Minister;

10) shall appoint justices and Presidents of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court;

11) shall appoint and dismiss the State Controller and the Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania;

12) shall call elections of municipal councils;

13) shall form the Central Electoral Commission and alter its composition;

14) shall approve the State Budget and supervise its execution;

15) shall establish State taxes and other compulsory payments;

16) shall ratify and denounce international treaties of the Republic of Lithuania and consider other issues of foreign policy;

17) shall establish administrative division of the Republic;

18) shall establish State awards of the Republic of Lithuania;

19) shall issue acts of amnesty;

20) shall impose direct rule, martial law, and a state of emergency, declare mobilisation, and adopt a decision to use the armed forces