Financial Risk:
Low
Score:
83/100
Asset Disposals
Q24
58/100
How effective are controls over the disposal of assets, and is information on these disposals, and the proceeds of their sale, transparent?
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The Law on the Management, Use and Disposal of State and Municipal Assets (Article 25) states that the controlled disposal of state assets shall…
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All disposals are coordinated by the state property fund and the Property Bank [1,2]. Planned auctions are known publicly before a buyer has been…
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Although the prices of every property on sale are public, the final results of the sales are not provided.
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Q25
83/100
Is independent and transparent scrutiny of asset disposals conducted by defence establishments, and are the reports of such scrutiny publicly available?
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All asset disposals conducted by defence establishments are managed by the State Enterprise, ‘Turto Bankas’ [1]. That includes management, use and disposal of the…
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There is no evidence that the military and/or the executive branch influence the audit body regarding asset disposals [1, 2,3,4].
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Only a summary audit report is made publicly available. It is included in the yearly financial and activity reports, and is accessible online for…
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Secret Budgets
Q26
25/100
What percentage of defence and security expenditure in the budget year is dedicated to spending on secret items relating to national security and the intelligence services?
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51 percent of defence and security expenditure in 2018 was either “confidential”, “restricted” or “secret” [1], compared to 47 percent in 2017 [2]. The…
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Q27
75/100
Is the legislature (or the appropriate legislative committee or members of the legislature) given full information for the budget year on the spending of all secret items relating to national security and military intelligence?
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The national security and defence committee consists of parliamentarians who have the right to access secret and classified information or state secrets, including information…
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Q28
100/100
Are audit reports of the annual accounts of the security sector (the military and intelligence services) subject to parliamentary debate?
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There is publicly available information that the National Audit Office reports are provided and that the National Defence Committee members have the right to…
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According to the Law on the Organisation of the National Defence System and Military Service, ‘decisions on the supply of the Army, procurement of…
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Q29
100/100
In law, are off-budget military expenditures permitted, and if so, are they exceptional occurrences that are well-controlled? In practice, are there any off-budget military expenditures? If so, does evidence suggest this involves illicit economic activity?
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All defence expenditures are included in the official budget: the budget consists of national financial allocations and financial contributions received through international agreements. Funds…
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The budget of the Ministry of Defence consists of national financial allocations and financial contributions received through international agreements. The sum that the Ministry…
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All procurement expenditures that are not secret are subject to the Public Procurement Law, except the finances that are received through international agreements. This…
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Q30
75/100
Are mechanisms for accessing information from the defence sector effective?
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There is legislation that stipulates access to information within the defence sector. The Law on the Right to Obtain Information from the State and…
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This indicator is not assigned a score in the GDI. There is a legal framework for the classification of information to ensure adequate data…
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The public is able to access most of the defence information available on the website of the Ministry of Defence. For example, one is…
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Q31
100/100
Do national defence and security institutions have beneficial ownership of commercial businesses? If so, how transparent are details of the operations and finances of such businesses?
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The Government made a decision that the Ministry of Defence would operate as the owner of the state owned company “Infostruktūra” on behalf of…
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The Government made a decision that the Ministry of Defence would operate as the owner of the state owned company “Infostruktūra” on behalf of…
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Military-owned Businesses
Q32
100/100
Are military-owned businesses subject to transparent independent scrutiny at a recognised international standard?
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Q33
100/100
Is there evidence of unauthorised private enterprise by military or other defence ministry employees? If so, what is the government’s reaction to such enterprise?
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The Law on Military Service foresees restrictions applicable to professional military servicemen and all civil servants. Professional military servicemen cannot be elected or appointed…
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There is no evidence of unauthorised private enterprise owned by military personnel or other defence ministry employees [1,2,3,4].
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Actual Military Spending
Q77
94/100
Is comprehensive data on actual spending on defence published during the budget year?
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The Ministry of National Defence proactively publishes annual budget reports as well as consolidated quarterly reports [1]. Details on actual defence spending are published…
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The vast majority of actual defence spending is fully disclosed (publicly available, source is given in column L, (2)) and there is clear and…
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Details of actual defence spending are published within six months of the end of the financial year. The End-of-Year report for 2017 was published…
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Variance between planned and actual defence spending for 2019 was negligible: execution of budget was 99.6 percent [1]. Nevertheless, variances between the published budget…
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