THE CHARTER

OF THE PARTY ORDER AND JUSTICE

                  T H E   C H A R T E R

1. GENERAL PART

1.1. The Party Order and Justice (further the Party) is the political party of the Republic of Lithuania, asserting the ideas of a free and liberal democratic society.

1.2. The Party in its activity is guided by the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania, the Civil Code of the Republic of Lithuania, the Law on Political Parties of the Republic of Lithuania and other laws, legal acts, the Party programme and the present Charter.

1.3. The Party's central establishment is in Vilnius, Gedimino Avenue 10 / Totorių str.1.

1.4. The Party is a public legal person.

2. ACTION OBJECTIVES AND WAYS

2.1. The Party's objectives:

to promote the creation of the civil society in Lithuania;

to ensure that the protection of the personal rights - life, freedom, equality and property - shall be the key function of the political power;

to strive for moral political activity;

to disseminate the ideas of liberal democratic society.

2.2. The Party shall seek for its objectives by:

implementing the political programme of the Party by the activity of its representatives who won the elections;

cooperating with other Lithuanian political parties and organizations;

participating or organizing referendums of the citizens of the Republic of Lithuania or initiating them;

preparing meetings, conferences, seminars, discussions and other events;

accumulating and disseminating the analytical material and other information about the Republic of Lithuania and foreign political life;

providing information and methodical support to citizens who acknowledge the Party objectives;

defending the rights of its members and divisions.

2.3. The Party participates in the international political activity in the procedure prescribed by the laws of the Republic of Lithuania and international legal acts.

3. MEMBERSHIP

3.1. As the Party member is eligible a citizen of the Republic of Lithuania, who on the day of election is 18 years of age, recognizing the present Charter and the Party programme and not belonging to other political parties and organizations.

3.2. A person, willing to become the Party member and having a recommendation from at least one member, shall fill in an application of the fixed form, which is submitted to the Council of the Unit. The Council of the Unit, after considering the application for the period of no longer than one month, adopts a decision as regards the membership. If the Council of the Unit has adopted a positive decision on the membership, a person pays the entrance fee of LTL 10 and the annual member fee and becomes the Party member. The Party member shall be issued a Party member certificate and a badge in the established procedure. If the Council of the Unit adopts a negative decision, a complaint may be lodged to the Disciplinary Commission, on which instructions the Board adopts a final decision. The Party members shall be registered in the procedure prescribed by the Board of the Party. The annual membership fee shall be paid to the Treasurer until May.

The member, having filed the grounded application, may go over to another Party Unit. He shall inform thereof its Unit Council, which within 7 days shall transfer the member documents to the new Unit Council and shall strike the member off the list of its Unit. The new Unit Council shall insert the member who filed an application in the list of his members. Having gone over to another Unit, the member shall not pay the membership fee for that year, if he has paid it already.

3.3. The rights of a Party member:

   3.3.1. to elect and be elected to all bodies of the Party;

   3.3.2. to file proposals and to receive answers;

   3.3.3. to propose the Party candidates and to be nominated as the candidate of the Party to the State and local authorities and administration institutions;

  3.3.4. to participate in the meetings of all the bodies of the Party;

  3.3.5. to apply to the Party bodies on the legal, moral and other support;

  3.3.6. to withdraw from the Party;

  3.3.7. to suspend his membership in the Party;

  3.3.8. to have access to the documents adopted by the Party and its bodies;

  3.3.9. to unite into factions, clubs and other organizations;

  3.3.10. after paying the annual membership fee for the current year, to pay the voluntary membership fee, the size thereof is not limited.

3.4. Duties of a Party member:

   3.4.1. to participate in the Party activities, to follow the Charter of the Party, to implement its Programme and the decisions of the Party bodies;

   3.4.2. the activity of the member shall not be in conflict with the decisions of the Party bodies;

   3.4.3. not to act against another member of the Party or to not inflict other damage to the Party;

   3.4.4. to pay the annual membership fee in due time.

3.5. The membership in the Party may be suspended at a written request of the member. The member shall withdraw from the Party, informing thereof the Council of his Unit in writing.

3.6. The Council of the Unit or the Party Board on the recommendation of the Disciplinary Commission shall be entitled by the grounded decision to dismiss from the Party any member registered in the Unit or to suspend his membership in the Party due to the following reasons:

   3.6.1. for behaviour or campaigning, incompatible with the Party objectives, the decisions of the Party bodies, the Programme, and the Charters;

   3.6.2. for violation of laws or discipline that harms or may harm the Party;

   3.6.3. the annual membership fee was not paid for one year.

3.7. The Party member shall have the right within 30 days to lodge a complaint to the Disciplinary Commission against a decision of the Council of the Unit or the Party Board to dismiss him or to suspend his membership in the Party. The Disciplinary Commission shall file a proposal to the Party Council. At the nearest meeting the Council adopts a final decision. After having lodged a complaint against the decision, the decision of the Council of the Unit or the Party Board shall be valid.

3.8. The member, who suspended his membership or whose membership was suspended, shall be deprived of all the rights in the Party, except for the right to apply to the Party Board or the Council on the re-establishments or termination of his membership. That member must follow the Charter of the Party.

3.9. In the decision of the Council of the Unit or the Party Board on the suspension of the membership, the time period for which the membership is suspended or the circumstances due to which the membership will be re-established shall be indicated.

3.10. Donations to the Party and the members of the political campaigns may be made by the persons, referred to in the law. The title of the honorary member in the Party shall be granted by the decision of the Party Board for extraordinary merits to Party.

The Party sponsors and honorary members may participate in the Party events and activity without the right of voting. The sponsors and honorary members shall be registered in the Party Units on separate lists. The Party members with special merits, honorary members or sponsors shall be awarded golden or silver badges by a decision and in the procedure approved by the Board.

3.11. A faction is the association of the Party members, based on the common views regarding the political activity of the Party. The faction acts in accordance with the provisions of its activities, which should not be in conflict with the present Charter. The Party member may belong only to one faction. The activities of the Party members may not be in conflict with the laws. A faction shall consist of no less than 3 members. A faction shall be registered by the Party Board according to the application on the formation of the faction by no less than 3 members of the Party.

3.12. The clubs and other associations unite the Party members on the professional, common interests or other basis, not relating to the Party political activities. The clubs and similar formations operate pursuant to the regulations of its own activities, which should not be in conflict with the Party laws.

3.13. In the Party by the Board decision, the sectoral committees are organized. On the recommendation of the Chairman, the candidates to the posts of the committee chairmen, their deputies and regulations of the activity of their recommended committees are approved by the Party Board.

4. STRUCTURE

4.1. The Party's structural divisions are its units.

4.2. The Unit on its own initiative and by the Board decision shall be established in the municipal territories or the single-mandate constituencies for the Seimas elections. The Unit shall be registered in the established procedure. The Board by its decision may terminate the activities of the Unit.

4.3. The objectives and tasks of the Units are:

   4.3.1. to organize and unite the Unit members for the common activity in implementing the Party objectives and Programme;

   4.3.2. to develop and disseminate the ideas of the free civil society in the Party and society;

   4.3.3. to organize and prepare the election campaigns;

   4.3.4. to develop the Party and Unit relations with the society;

   4.3.5. to maintain permanent contacts with the Party Seimas members elected in the Unit territory and the members of the appropriate Municipal Councils, to support their activities.

4.4. The bodies of the Unit are: the meeting, Council and Chairman of the Unit.

4.5. The supreme body of the Unit is the meeting of the Unit members. The Chairman or the Party Board shall call the meetings of the Unit members no less than once in six months. The Chairman of the Unit shall call the meeting if it is required by no less than 1/3 of the Unit members. The decisions of the Unit meeting shall be lawful if it is attended by more than a half of the Unit members. The decisions of the meeting shall be adopted by a majority vote of the attending members.

   4.5.1. Conferences may be organized in the Units having more than 100 members.

4.6. The meeting of the Unit shall:

   4.6.1. adopt and amend the Statutes of the Unit;

   4.6.2. approve the report of the Council of the Unit;

   4.6.3. elect the Chairman of the Unit, approve the Vice-Chairman (Chairmen) and the Secretary on the recommendation of the Chairman of the Unit. The Chairman shall be elected for the term of office of 2 years. The number of terms of office is unlimited, if not otherwise referred to in the Statutes of the Unit. The Chairman of the Unit may be removed by a decision of the meeting of the Unit or the Party Board. In electing or removing the Chairman of the Unit, the Party Board representative shall participate in the meeting of the Unit. In exclusive cases, when the Chairman of the Unit is deprived of his powers, the Board may appoint the acting Chairman;

   4.6.4. elect the treasurer and inspector;

   4.6.5. consider other issues on the agenda that were preliminary communicated;

   4.6.6. form the lists of candidates to the local municipal council elections or delegate this to be performed by the Unit Council and submit them for approval to the Party Board. In the cases when more than one Unit is in the municipal territory, the Municipal Coordination Council shall form the lists of candidates and submit them for approval to the Party Board, taking into consideration the proposals of the Units;

   4.6.7. submit proposals to the Board concerning the formation of coalitions, common lists with the local units of other parties;

   4.6.8. consider and submit proposals to the Board on the formation of the lists of the candidates to the members of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and on the nomination of the candidates in the single-mandate constituencies;

   4.6.9. consider proposals to other units of the Party;

   4.6.10. elect the Unit representatives to the Coordination Councils in the procedure prescribed by the Party Council, taking into account the number of members and the number of members in the units;

   4.6.11. consider the information supplied by the Party members, elected as Municipal Council members, about the results of implementation of the election programme;

   4.6.12. appoint the Unit representative(s) to the Party Council in the cases prescribed by Item 5.13 of the present Charter;

   4.6.13. elect the Unit representatives as the participants of the Party Congress in the procedure specified by the Party Board.

4.7. The Council of the Unit shall consist of the Chairman of the Unit, the Vice- Chairman (Chairmen), the Treasurer and other members elected at the meeting of the Unit.

4.8. The Council of the Unit shall:

   4.8.1. consider all political issues within its competence;

   4.8.2. admit and remove the members;

   4.8.3. register the clubs and other associations of the members;

   4.8.4. make lists of candidates to the local municipal council elections on the delegation of the Unit meeting.

4.9. The Unit Council may delegate to the Party Board the resolving of the disputes arising in the Unit.

4.10. The Unit is headed by the Unit Chairman, in his absence by the Vice- Chairman. Resolutions of the Unit managing bodies shall be signed by the Unit Chairman and the Secretary, and financial ones also by the Treasurer.

4.11. The financial activity of the Unit shall be controlled by the Unit inspector in the procedure specified by the Unit Statutes.

4.12. The Party Council on the recommendation of the Party Board may suspend the activity of the Unit, in the event that the Charter is infringed, the Party Programme or the decisions of the Party bodies are not fulfilled. The final decision shall be adopted by the Congress.

4.13. The County Coordination Councils shall be formed for the purpose of coordination of the activity of the Units in the counties. The County Coordination Councils shall consist of the Chairmen and the representatives of the Units existing in the territories of the counties according to the size of the Units. The activities of the County Coordination Councils shall be organized by the Chairmen of the County Coordination Councils, the candidatures of which shall be approved by the Party Boards, with the account taken of the proposals of the Units. The regulations of the County Coordination Councils shall be approved by the Party Board.

The Coordination Council of the County shall:

   4.13.1. submit proposals to the County institutions regarding their activities;

   4.13.2. coordinate the common activities of the Party Units in the County;

   4.13.3. coordinate the Party events in the County;

   4.13.4. organize information exchange between the Party Units in the County;

   4.13.5. organize the work of the electoral headquarters.

4.14. In the municipal territories where more than one Unit exits, the Municipal Coordination Councils are formed of the Chairmen of those Units and Unit representatives. The candidatures for the Municipal Coordination Council Chairmen, with the consideration of the proposals from the Units, shall be approved by the Party Board. The procedure for the formation of the Municipal Coordination Councils and their activity regulations shall be approved by the Party Board.

The Municipal Coordination Council shall:

   4.14.1. file proposals to the municipal institutions regarding their activities;

   4.14.2. in the cases prescribed by the Charter make lists of the candidates to the Municipal Council;

   4.14.3. coordinate the common activities of the Party Units in the municipality;

   4.14.4. coordinate the Party events in the municipality;

   4.14.5. organize the information exchange between the Party Units in the municipality.

   4.14.6. organize the work of electoral headquarters.

4.15. The Units shall be registered in the Party Board. The Units shall be registered, if they have no less than three Party members.

4.16. The Party may set up branches, representation offices and other structural subunits. The Party branches, representation offices and other structural subunits are not legal persons. The political Party branches and representation offices shall operate according to the regulations approved by the Party Board.

5. MANAGEMENT

5. The Party's managing bodies are: the sole managing body - the Chairman and the collegiate managing body - the Board. Other Party bodies are: the Congress, the Council, and the Presidium.

CONGRESS

5.1. The Congress is the supreme representative body of the Party, which shall:

   5.1.1. approve the Congress agenda, elect the meeting chairmen, the Secretariat, the vote counting and mandate commissions;

   5.1.2. adopt or amend the Charter of the Party;

   5.1.3. approve or amend or authorize the Council to approve the Party programmes;

   5.1.4. elect or recall the Party Board members;

   5.1.5. elect or recall the Party Chairman in the procedure prescribed by the present Charter. On the recommendation of the Chairman shall approve or recall the Vice-Chairmen, the Disciplinary Commission Chairman and the Treasurer;

   5.1.6. by a 2/3 vote majority adopt decisions regarding the Party reorganization or liquidation, the change of the Party name;

   5.1.7. listen to and evaluate the reports of the Council, Chairman and Chairman of the Control Commission;

   5.1.8. be entitled to cancel or change resolutions of the Party managing bodies;

   5.1.9. in the cases foreseen in the present Charter solve other issues relating to the Party activities and issues that are not attributed to other managing bodies of the Party;

   5.1.10. approve admission and annual membership fee;

   5.1.11. elect the Disciplinary Commission members and approve the Disciplinary Commission activity regulations and powers;

   5.1.12. on the recommendation of the Chairman, elect the Control Commission for the two years of the term of office;

   5.1.13. on the recommendation of the Board, approve or authorize the Council to approve the lists of the candidates to the European Parliament and members of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania in the single-mandate constituencies;

   5.1.14. on the recommendation of the Board, adopt decisions or authorize the Council to adopt decisions on the participation of the Party in the coalitions;

   5.1.15. on the recommendation of the Council, approve the Party candidate to the Post of the President of the Republic of Lithuania or authorize the Council to perform this;

   5.1.16. on the recommendation of the Board, approve the regulation of the Council activities.

5.2. The Congress shall be called no less than once a year. The Congress shall be called by the Party Chairman. The right of initiative of calling the Congress shall also belong to 1/3 of all the members of the Party, 1/2 of all registered units or the Council. In the case stipulated in Item 5.7 of the present Charter, the congress shall be called by the Board. The Board shall be responsible for all preparatory and organizational works.

5.3. The Board shall send a notice on the prepared Congress and the preliminary agenda to each Unit no later than 30 days before the date of the Congress. The Units within 15 days may file their proposals to the Board on supplementing the agenda. The Board shall consider them and decide whether it is expedient to include those issues into the Congress agenda. If the extraordinary congress is convened, the Board must include into its agenda all the issues proposed by the initiators, and to send the report on the Congress to be prepared and the agenda to each Unit no later than before 45 days.

5.4. The Congress shall consist of the representatives elected at the meetings of the members of the Party Units (further the Congress participants). The number of the Congress participants shall be identified by the Board, with the account of the number of the Party members. The Congress participants shall also be the members of the Party Board, Council, Disciplinary and Control Commissions, Chairmen of the sectoral committees and the Party Treasurer.

5.5. The Congress decisions shall be adopted by a secret or open ballot with a simple majority vote of the Congress attending participants, except for the cases specified in Items 5.1.6; 5.7 and 12.1 of the Charter. The Congress may adopt decisions when it is attended by more than a half of the delegated participants of the Congress. The congress decisions shall come into force from the moment of their adoption, if not otherwise foreseen by the laws of the Republic of Lithuania.

CHAIRMAN

5.6. The sole managing body - the Chairman - is the leader of the Party, who shall:

   5.6.1. represent the Party in its relations with the State power and public institutions of the Republic of Lithuania, Lithuanian, foreign and international organizations;

   5.6.2. nominate to the Congress the candidatures of his deputies, the Disciplinary Commission Chairman and the Treasurer;

   5.6.3. with the approval of the Council, suspend the powers of the Board member or deputy;

   5.6.4. chair Board meetings and sign their resolutions;

   5.6.5. convene the Party Congress, prepare and present to the Congress and the Council about the Party activities.

5.7. The Chairman shall be elected by the Congress for the term of office of two years by a simple majority vote of the Congress attending participants. The Congress by a 2/3 vote of those attending the Congress shall be entitled to recall the powers of the Chairman before the end of the term of office. The powers of the Chairman shall also come to an end in the case of Chairman's resigning and/or his withdrawal from the Party. In those cases the Board shall call the extraordinary meeting.

5.8. The Chairman shall have no more than seven Vice-Chairmen, one of which is the first Vice-Chairman. The Vice-Chairmen, on the recommendation of the Chairman, shall be approved by the Congress. If the Chairman cannot hold office, his duties shall be taken over by the first Vice-Chairman. With the resignation of the Chairman, his duties until the election of another Chairman shall be performed by one of the Vice-Chairmen appointed by the Board. The powers of the Vice-Chairmen shall expire after the recalling of the Chairman, when the corresponding Vice-Chairmen are recalled on the recommendation of the Chairman, or at their resignation. In this case the Council, on the recommendation of the Chairman, shall appoint Vice-Chairmen to the vacancies until the nearest congress. The Vice-Chairmen shall be responsible for the areas of activities attributed by the Chairman. The Chairman may appoint his advisors.

THE COUNCIL

5.9. The Council is the supreme Party body in-between the congresses, which:

   5.9.1. approve or submit to the Congress the Party action plans and reports;

   5.9.2. control the Board activities, approve and amend its activity regulation, one in six months listen to the Board report;

   5.9.3. approve the candidatures for county and Municipal Coordination Council chairmen;

   5.9.4. specify the procedure for making lists of the candidates to the European Parliament, the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and Municipal Council members;

   5.9.5. announce the agenda, date and venue of the Party Congress;

   5.9.6. on the proposal of the Disciplinary Commission, by the recommendation of the Party Board, may suspend the powers of the board member or deputy;

   5.9.7. prepare and approve the procedure for disposal of the Party funds and assets;

   5.9.8. carry out other assignments of the Congress, if delegated by the Congress.

   5.10. The Council shall be chaired by the Vice-Chairman, appointed by the Party Chairman.

   5.11. The one chairing the Council shall convene the Council meeting no less than once in a quarter. He must call the council meeting, if it is required by 1/3 of the Council members. Decisions in the Council shall be adopted by a simple majority vote, with the participation of more than half of all Council members.

5.12. The Council shall be accountable to the Congress.

5.13. The Council shall consist of the Unit Chairmen, the Party Board members, chairmen of sectional committees, the Disciplinary Commission Chairman, the Treasurer, the Party Seimas faction members, if they are the Party members. The Units with over 50 members shall be entitled to appoint one additional (not including the Unit Chairman) Unit representative to the Council. The Units with over 100 members shall have the right to appoint two additional Unit representatives to the Council. Further on, the representation in the Council shall increase by one member per 50 Unit members.

THE BOARD

5.14. The collegiate managing body - the Board - is the Party political-organizational managing body, which shall:

   5.14.1. submit its action regulation for approval to the Council;

   5.14.2. pursue the Party policy, Programme and other Congress decisions, defined by the Congress;

   5.14.3. prepare the political programmes of the Party and other documents submit them for approval to the Congress;

   5.14.4. perform the preparatory and organizational works relating to the convening of the Council, determine the quotas of the Congress participants;

   5.14.5. approve and submit the applications for participation in the elections to the Chief Electoral Commission and commissions of electoral constituencies;

   5.14.6. plan and organize the Party events, approve plans and control their fulfillment;

   5.14.7. maintain contacts with the Republic of Lithuania, foreign and international organizations;

   5.14.8. in the procedure, prescribed by the Party Council, dispose of the Party funds, approve the interim and final financial reports;

  5.14.9. on the recommendation of the Chairman, approve the responsible secretary of the Party, the work regulation of the Secretariat, and the work provisions of the responsible secretary;

  5.14.10. form the sectoral committees of the Party, on the recommendation of the Chairman approve the Committee Chairmen and their submitted committee activity provisions;

   5.14.11. draw up lists of the candidates to the members of the European Parliament and the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, and of the candidates in the single-mandate constituencies and submit for approval to the Congress or with the authorization of the Congress to the Council, submit proposals to the Congress or with the authorization of the Congress to the Council concerning the joining of that list to the lists of the candidates of other parties, propose to the Council the Party candidate(s) to the post of the President of the Republic of Lithuania;

   5.14.12. identify the limits of the Units, found and register the Party Unit in the established procedure and terminate their activities, and register factions;

   5.14.13. organize consultations with other political parties regards possible cooperation;

   5.14.14. no less than once in six months submit to the Council the Board activity reports;

   5.14.15. organize the Council activities;

   5.14.16. be responsible for drawing up of the financial statements, submission of the data and documents to the register of legal persons, a notice to the participants of the legal persons on the essential events, of importance to the activity of the legal person, the organization of the activity of the legal person, accounting of the participants of the legal person, actions, referred to in Part 3 of Article 2.4 of the Civil Code, if not otherwise foreseen in the Law on Political Parties or the Charter of the Party, solve other Party activity issues, which cannot be solved by other bodies of the Party.

   5.14.17. submit to the Congress for approval the Council activity regulations;

   5.14.18. approve The Presidium activity regulations;

   5.14.19. approve the control Commission activity regulations;

   5.14.20. approve the activity regulations of the county and municipal coordination councils;

   5.14.21. on the basis of the grounded decision, dismiss from the Party, suspend or restore the membership of any member of the Party, suspend or restore the powers of the Unit Chairman, and appoint the acting Unit Chairman;

   5.14.22. fix the forms of recommendation, application and questionnaire of the Party applicants, the procedure of delivery of the Party certificate and the badge;

   5.14.23. approve the number of the Party official staff members and fix their payment procedure;

   5.14.24. once in a quarter listen to and evaluate the activity reports of the Party Vice-Chairmen of the Party, the Board members, the coordination council chairmen, chairmen of sectoral committees and the responsible secretary of the Party.

5.15. The Chairman and the Vice-Chairmen of the Party according to their duties are the members of the Board. The remaining Board members, the number whereof is more by two than the number of the Vice-Chairmen, shall be elected by a secret ballot at the Party Congress for the term of office of the Party Chairman. With the resignation of the Party Chairman or his recalling and electing the new Party Chairman, the Board members shall be re-elected.

5.16. In the Board meetings, 10 county coordination council chairmen, Vilnius and Kaunas Municipal Coordination Council chairmen and the Party responsible secretary shall participate with the right of voting. The Party members of the Seimas faction shall participate in the Board meetings with the right of a deliberative vote.

5.17. The Party Chairman shall head the Board, organize its work and chair at its meetings.

5.18. The Party Chairman shall call the Board meetings no less than once a month on his own initiative or the initiative of half of the Board members.

5.19. The decisions in the Board shall be taken by open voting with a simple majority vote. The Board may adopt decisions with the participation of more than a half of all the members of the Board. In the case of a tie, the vote of the Party Chairman shall be decisive. If there is no Party Chairman or he does not participate in taking a decision, and there is a tie, a decision shall be deemed to be not adopted.

PRESIDIUM

5.20. The Party Presidium in the period between the Board meetings shall tackle the issues relating to the implementation of the Party political provisions and its activity;

5.21. The Presidium is constituted of the Party Chairman, Vice-Chairmen and the elder of the Party faction in the Seimas, if he is a member of the Party.

5.22. The Presidium works according to the action regulation, approved by the Board.

5.23. The Presidium nominates to the Board the candidates to the members of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania in the single-mandate constituencies.

5.24. The Presidium nominates to the Board the candidates to the European Parliament, members and candidates to the members of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania in the multi-mandate constituencies.

6. SECRETARIAT

6.1. The current matters of the Party shall be handled by the Secretariat. The Secretariat works according to the work regulations approved by the Board.

6.2. The Secretariat shall be headed by the responsible secretary of the Party who admits to work and dismisses its employees, approves the number of the Party staff and fixes their payment procedure. The responsible secretary shall be in charge of the management of accounting in accordance with the Law on Accounting of the Republic of Lithuania, the Law on Financing and Financing Control of Political Parties and Political Campaigns and other legal acts. If the responsible secretary is not approved by the Board, his functions shall be performed one of the Vice-Chairmen of the Party.

7. THE CONTROL COMMISSION

7.1. The Control Commission, elected by the Congress, shall:

   7.1.1. elect its chairman;

   7.1.2. work according to its own adopted activity regulations, approved by the Board;

   7.1.3. control the economic and financial activities of the Party bodies;

   7.1.4. perform separate assignments of the Board;

   7.1.5. once a year submit a report to the Party Congress.

7.2. The member of the Control Commission cannot be the member of other bodies of Party.

7.3. The inspectors of the Party Units are not under subordination of the Party Control Commission.

7.4. The Party Bodies shall provide the necessary assistance and information to the Control Commission which would be of help to the Commission activity.

8. THE DISCIPLINARY COMMISSION

8.1. The Disciplinary Commission is the body for surveillance of the following of the Charter, for solving of conflicts and disputes between the Party subunits, bodies and members, which is elected for the term of office of 2 years.

8.2. The Disciplinary Commission Chairman, on the recommendation of the Party Chairman, shall be approved by the Party Congress. The Disciplinary Commission members shall be elected by the Party Congress.

8.3. The activity regulations and powers of the Disciplinary Commission shall be approved by the Congress.

9. THE TREASURER

9.1. The Treasurer shall manage the Party funds and assets in the procedure prescribed by the Board.

9.2. The Treasurer, on the recommendation of the Chairman, shall be approved by the Congress.

9.3. The Treasurer once a quarter or at the demand of the Chairman or the Board shall submit the financial statements.

10. LEGAL POSITION

10.1. The Party has its own seal, independent treasury and accounts.

10.2. The Party and its Units may be involved in the publishing or other lawful activities.

10.3. The documents of the Board, Council and Control Commission shall be testified with the Party seal.

10.4. The Party has the symbols, approved by the Congress:

a banner, where on the blue background a golden eagle, holding the wreath of oak leaves in his claws, is depicted. In the centre of the wreath are letters "TT", and at the bottom - the Pillars of Gediminas. In-between the eagle wings four five-pointed stars are placed archwise. The Party symbols may contain an inscription "Tauta and Tėvynė" (Nation and Homeland).

11. ASSETS AND FUNDS

11.1. The Party for implementing of the objectives, envisaged in the Charter, may have short-term and long-term assets.

11.2. The Party funds shall consist of:

- fees and contributions of members;

- donations;

- income from publishing activities;

- other legal income.

11.3. The Party may receive funds or other assets from international organizations, non-governmental organizations and funds as well as persons only in the procedure prescribed by the laws of the Republic of Lithuania.

11.4. Nine Litas from the annual (re-registration) Party regular fee shall be allocated to the appropriate Party Unit, and 3 Litas to the Party. For the Party membership fee, a certificate and a badge shall be given.

11.5. The Party assets and funds cannot be allocated to its members.

12. TERMINATION OF THE PARTY ACTIVITIES

12.1. The Party shall expire (be reorganized or liquidated) in the procedure prescribed by the Civil Code of the Republic of Lithuania on a decision of the Congress, adopted by a 2/3 majority vote of the congress participants.

12.2. If within six months from the time when the number of the Party reached less than one thousand members, the Party Congress does not decide to reorganize it, the Party shall be liquidated. The Congress shall form the liquidation commission, which shall solve the issues on the use of the Party funds and assets in the procedure specified by the laws.

Chairman of the Party Order and Justice                                                                    Rolandas Paksas

The Charter was approved at the eighth Congress of the Party Order and Justice in Vilnius

08.02.2009