On Thursday, Minister of the Economy and Innovation Aušrinė Armonaitė met with Vice-President of the European Commission Vera Jourova to discuss the importance of developing digital services and combating disinformation.

On Tuesday, the Seimas approved the so-called employee relocation package initiated by the Ministry of the Economy and Innovation, which opens simplified conditions for investors from third countries to transfer their employees and family members. These changes are particularly relevant for Belarusian companies moving to Lithuania or ...

From 1 June of the current year, conditions for using the National Certificate get more relaxed. The Ministry of the Economy and Innovation informs about the basic changes.

In Brussels, Minister of the Economy and Innovation Aušrinė Armonaitė met with Latvian State Secretary Edmunds Valantis and Estonian Minister of the Economy Andres Sutt to discuss how to facilitate travel among the Baltic countries; she also presented the National Certificate.

Minister of the Economy and Innovation Aušrinė Armonaitė is taking part in the EU Competitiveness Council meeting in Brussels, where issues related to the new industrial strategy and the EU’s strategic dependences on third countries are discussed.

The Ministry of the Economy and Innovation notes that the main testing method for obtaining the National Certificate should be rapid antigen tests because their results are obtained most rapidly.

With the upcoming launch of the National Certificate on 24 May, the Ministry of the Economy and Innovation provides key information on what businesses should about it. According to the Ministry’s estimates, at the beginning of June almost 1.5 million people will already have access to the National Certificate without testing.

From May 24, the National Certificate will be available on www.gpasas.lt .

With the approaching launch of the National Certificate the Ministry of the Economy and Innovation offers explanation on how to behave to obtain this document granting more freedom to those who have been vaccinated against COVID-19, have had the coronavirus or have received a negative test result.

Following the adoption by the Council of the European Union of a new list of third countries whose citizens may come to the EU for tourism purposes, the Ministry of the Economy and Innovation points out that Israel is also included in the list; before the pandemic, tourists from Israel alone spent about EUR 11 million per year.

The National Certificate will be available on a specially designed website after performing just two steps: you‘ll have to enter personal authentication data and save the received QR code in your phone or computer.

Economist Ieva Valeškaitė, who had previously served as Minister’s Adviser, has joined the vice-ministers‘ team of Minister of the Economy and Innovation Aušinė Armonaitė. Ieva Valeškaitė will be responsible for better regulation and business supervision, taxation environment for business and for creating an economic analysis unit at the Ministry.