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Lithuania's Seimas voted 94 to 1 to advance a bill that assigns AI Act implementation duties to national institutions
The vote count reads like a mandate. The bill it advanced is mostly about which Lithuanian institution answers the phone, not about what an AI provider has to do differently.
Bottom line: Not law. A draft law that has only passed the presentation stage in the Seimas and returns to the plenary in the autumn session.
Who this affects: Lithuanian technology counsel, in-house lawyers at AI providers and deployers operating in Lithuania, and public-sector legal advisers.
Issue date: 9 June 2026, the date of the Seimas press release on the presentation vote. No adoption date is given; the release says the plenary returns to it in the autumn session.
What changed: The draft moved from government submission to a recorded presentation vote of 94 for and 1 against, and was referred to the Committee on Economics and Innovations as lead committee.
Analysis: The minister's own framing is the useful part: the release records that the draft is aimed first at regulating the actions of state institutions, not at the operators of AI systems. A national implementing law that clears presentation almost unanimously is not evidence that new duties are landing on providers.
Primary sources: Seimas press release, 9 June 2026 · Draft No. XVP-1564 in the Seimas document search
- Instrument (EN)
- Draft Law on the Implementation of the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act, project No. XVP-1564
- Authority
- Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania; presented by Edvinas Griksas, Minister of Economy and Innovation
- Jurisdiction
- Lithuania
- Status
- Draft. Passed presentation stage; referred to committee
- Bindingness
- None. A bill at presentation stage creates no obligation
- Issue date / next deadline
- 9 June 2026 press release; plenary consideration planned for the autumn session, no fixed date given
- Lead committee
- Committee on Economics and Innovations; Committee on the Future as additional committee
- Proposed national competent authority
- Innovation Agency, named in the draft as the notifying authority
- Primary source
- https://www.lrs.lt/sip/portal.show?p_r=35403&p_k=1&p_t=295259
What the Seimas actually did on 9 June
The Seimas began considering a draft law on the implementation of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, presented by Minister of Economy and Innovation Edvinas Griksas. On the release's account, the draft sets national implementing measures intended to make the AI Act apply properly in Lithuania.
The recorded vote after the presentation was 94 in favour and 1 against. Presentation in the Seimas is the first of several stages: it decides whether the chamber will work on a text at all, not whether the text is any good.
The release states the draft then goes to the Committee on Economics and Innovations as the lead committee, with the Committee on the Future attached as an additional committee, and that the plenary plans to return to the question in the autumn session.
The Innovation Agency, not a new regulator
Under the draft as described, the national competent authority, identified as the notifying authority, is the Innovation Agency, the body that carries out technology and innovation policy.
The functions listed for it are not enforcement-shaped. It would organise activities to raise AI literacy, and provide consultations and other methodological assistance to operators, with state and municipal institutions excluded from that assistance, on complying with AI Act requirements before an AI system is placed on the market or put into service.
It would also be responsible for creating and running the AI regulatory sandbox, and for preparing and submitting reports on the sandbox to the European Commission.
Competence, complaints and liability
Three things the draft sets out, per the release: the competence of the state institutions and bodies implementing the AI Act, the procedure for handling complaints and carrying out investigations into possible breaches of the AI Act and of the law itself, and liability for breaches committed.
Policy coordination sits with the Ministry of Economy and Innovation. Other ministries participate in forming that policy and are responsible for AI use policy in the areas assigned to them. The ministry would also coordinate implementation more broadly, including initiating and drafting legal acts, building regulatory or investment measures, preparing planning documents, and putting proposals to the Government and the Seimas on updating those documents and on funding needs.
The line that matters to providers
The release attributes to the minister the position that the draft is oriented first of all towards regulating the actions of state institutions and bodies, rather than the operators of AI systems, meaning providers, deployers and their authorised representatives.
That is consistent with how a directly applicable EU regulation works. The substantive duties on a Lithuanian AI provider come from Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 itself. What a national implementing law adds is the machinery: who supervises, who is notified, who investigates, what a penalty looks like.
So the useful compliance question for a firm operating in Lithuania is not what XVP-1564 will require of it. It is which Lithuanian body will be asking, and under what procedure.
What we did not verify
We opened the Seimas press release of 9 June 2026 in full and took every fact and figure above from it, including the 94 to 1 vote, the Innovation Agency's proposed role, the committee referrals and the autumn-session plan.
We did not open the text of draft No. XVP-1564 itself, its explanatory memorandum, or the Seimas document-search record for the project. We did not open the committee calendar, and we did not check whether the draft has been amended since 9 June.
We do not claim the bill has been adopted, that the Innovation Agency has been designated in law, or that any penalty regime is in force in Lithuania. The release describes a draft at presentation stage and nothing in it supports a stronger statement.
A near-unanimous presentation vote in the Seimas moved a national AI Act implementing bill one stage forward, no further. If you advise a provider or deployer in Lithuania, the operative obligations still come from Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 directly. Track XVP-1564 for the answer to a narrower question: which institution supervises you, and how a complaint against you would be handled.
Source File
https://www.lrs.lt/sip/portal.show?p_r=35403&p_k=1&p_t=295259
Open the Seimas press release of 9 June 2026 and confirm the vote of 94 for and 1 against, the naming of the Innovation Agency as national competent and notifying authority, and the referral to the Committee on Economics and Innovations with a planned return to the plenary in the autumn session.
After the presentation, 94 members of the Seimas voted for these amendments (project No. XVP-1564), and 1 against. ยท Seimas press release, 9 June 2026, translated from Lithuanian
FAQ
Does this bill create new duties for AI providers in Lithuania?
Not on the release's account. It records the minister's position that the draft is aimed first at regulating the actions of state institutions and bodies rather than operators of AI systems. Duties on providers come from Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, which applies directly.
Which body would the draft name as Lithuania's competent authority?
The draft names the Innovation Agency as the national competent authority and notifying authority. The release also describes the Ministry of Economy and Innovation as the coordinator of state policy and of implementation.
Has the Seimas adopted the law?
No. The 9 June 2026 vote was at the presentation stage. The draft went to committee, and the release says the plenary plans to return to it in the autumn session.
What is the Innovation Agency supposed to do about the regulatory sandbox?
Per the release, it would be responsible for creating and operating the limited AI regulatory sandbox, and for preparing and submitting reports on its implementation to the European Commission.
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