Law on Assisted Reproduction Archives

IVF procedures in Lithuania come to halt after new law takes effect – official

February 2, 2017 BNS EN 0

Healthcare providers in Lithuania stopped offering assisted reproduction treatment to new patients after a new law took effect in January as they have to renew their licenses, the director of the State Health Care Accreditation Agency said on Thursday. […]

Seimas passes requirement for indefinite storage of unused embryos

January 17, 2017 BNS EN 0

The Lithuanian parliament passed on Tuesday amendments, initiated by the Peasant and Green Union (LPGU), to the new Law on Assisted Reproduction, putting into place the requirement to indefinitely store unused embryo and allowing embryo donation. […]

Karbauskis says to withdraw amendment banning embryo freezing

December 6, 2016 BNS EN 0

Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU), the party that won the recent parliamentary elections, says that he will withdraw an amendment aimed at banning embryo freezing. […]

President sticks to her position on IVF law

December 6, 2016 BNS EN 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has not changed her position regarding the Law on Assisted Reproduction, her advisor on economic and social policy issues said on Tuesday morning. […]

Amendments banning embryo freezing in Lithuania submitted to Seimas

December 6, 2016 BNS EN 0

Amendments to Lithuania’s new Law on Assisted Reproduction, which has not yet come into force, are submitted to the parliament on Tuesday with the aim of returning to a conservative version of the bill that limited the number of embryos created during in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment. […]

EU Commissioner thinks Lithuania should keep current IFV law in place

December 2, 2016 BNS EN 0

European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis believes that Lithuania should keep in place the current Law on Assisted Reproduction that does not limit the number of embryos that can be created a time and allows freezing them. […]

“No need to mince words”: an assessment of what Trump’s victory means for Lithuania

November 6, 2024 0

“We can shout very loudly, but it won’t change the position of the American people,” says Professor Tomas Janeliūnas, as the winner of the United States of America’s (USA) presidential election, which will almost certainly […]

Another year in the sovereign history of Kazakhstan

October 24, 2024 0

Republic Day has been celebrated in Kazakhstan as the main national date since 2022, giving new life to the fundamental document on state sovereignty—the Declaration of October 25, 1990. The Republic is a modern form […]

In the assessment of NATO’s readiness for war with Russia, there is also a warning about the Baltic states: what is the Kremlin’s wild card?

October 23, 2024 0

According to Lrytas.lt, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) faces a new geopolitical reality with the large-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. While the Alliance has begun responding to emerging threats, its readiness for […]

These parties will enter the Seimas for the third time in a row. How many votes did they lose, and how many did they gain?

October 15, 2024 0

As various parties emerge, disappear or reorganize themselves in the political space, the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats – TS-LKD) and the Liberal Movement are making […]

Citus experts: Housing demand surpasses the results of the past two years – buyers of the economic segment are returning

October 13, 2024 0

In the last quarter of the year, the number of new housing units (apartments and terraced houses) sold in Vilnius in the economy class was 50% higher than in April–June, according to preliminary data from […]