CAT/C/LTU/CO/3
(c)
Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual
Exploitation and Sexual Abuse, 6 November 2012;
(d)
1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, on 22 July 2013;
(e)
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced
Disappearance, on 14 August 2013;
(f)
Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, on 14 January 2014.
5.
The Committee welcomes the State party’s efforts to revise its legislation in areas of
relevance to the Convention, including:
(a)
Adoption of Law No. XI-303 supplementing the Criminal Code, making
criminal liability for hate crimes more stringent, and of the new paragraph 13 of article 60
of the Criminal Code, under which hate crimes are considered as an aggravating
circumstance, on 16 June 2009;
(b)
Amendments to article 176 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, establishing
the maximum length of pretrial detention, on 21 September 2010;
(c)
Amendments to articles 100 and 103 of the Criminal Code, expanding the
range of criminal acts covered, on 22 March 2011;
(d)
Law on Protection against Domestic Violence, entry into force on 15
December 2011;
(e)
Law on Probation, entry into force on 1 July 2012;
(f)
Amendments to the Lithuanian Citizenship Act, decreasing from 10 to 5
years the requirements of stay for stateless persons, introduced in May 2013 after the
State’s accession to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness;
(g)
Amendments to the Law on the Legal Status of Aliens, 24 October 2013;
(h)
Amendments to the law on the Seimas Ombudsman, whose office will
exercise the national preventive mechanism functions under the Optional Protocol to the
Convention, on 1 January 2014;
(i)
Amendments to the Criminal Code and the introduction of a new article 147,
paragraph 2, of the Criminal Code, expanding criminal liability in relation to trafficking in
human beings.
6.
The Committee also welcomes the efforts of the State party to amend its policies,
programmes and administrative measures to give effect to the Convention, including:
(a)
National Strategy for the Elimination of Violence against Women;
(b)
Hygiene norm HN 37:2009 entitled “Police detention facilities: general
health safety requirements”, approved on 29 September 2009;
(c)
Strategy for the Renovation of Places of Imprisonment, approved by
government resolution on 30 September 2009;
(d)
National Programme for Drug Control and Drug Addiction Prevention 2010–
2016, approved on 4 November 2010;
(e)
Amendments to the Regulations for Examination of Requests for Pardon,
Presidential Decree No. 1K-852 of 11 November 2011;
(f)
Programme for the Optimization of the Operations of Police Detention
Facilities 2009–2015;
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