Remuneration to members of constituency electoral committees, municipal electoral committees and polling district electoral committees

1. Remuneration per working day at an electoral committee shall be set at the following rates:

1) for chairs of constituency electoral committees or municipal electoral committees, the rate is set at 0.067 of the base amount of the official salary (remuneration) set out in the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on establishing the base amount of the basic salary (remuneration) and recalculation of appropriations for salaries (hereinafter: ‘base amount of the basic salary’);

2) for deputy chairs, secretaries and members of constituency electoral committees or municipal electoral committees, the rate is set at 0.054 of the base amount of the basic salary;

3) for chairs of polling district electoral committees, the rate is set at 0.054 of the base amount of the basic salary;

4) for deputy chairs, secretaries and members of polling district electoral committees, the rate is set at 0.043 of the base amount of the basic salary.

2. Remuneration to members, chairs, deputy chairs and secretaries of electoral committees shall be paid on the basis of timesheets and shall be kept within the limits of the remuneration appropriations set for each electoral committee. The procedure for filling the timesheets in electoral committees shall be established by the Central Electoral Commission. The chair of each electoral committee shall be responsible for the correctness of the data contained in the timesheets of the relevant committee. The working time restrictions set out in the Labour Code shall not apply to the work of electoral committees.

3. Members, chairs, deputy chairs and secretaries of electoral committees may be incentivised by a lump sum allowance paid for excellence at work at an electoral committee. The lump sum allowance may not exceed 100 % of the mean of the monthly salaries received throughout the period of work at the electoral committee and may not exceed the limits of the resources provided for incentives in the estimate of the expenditure of the committee in question. The amount of the lump sum shall be determined by taking into account the scale, quality and complexity of the work carried out.

4. The Central Electoral Commission shall make decisions on incentives to chairs of constituency and municipal electoral committees in view of their contribution to organising and holding elections and in view of the need for accountability for the use of the funds allocated to the committees in question. Deputy chairs, members and secretaries of constituency electoral committees and municipal electoral committees may be incentivised by a lump sum allowance by the decision of the Central Electoral Commission, provided there is a nomination for the allowance received from the chair of a polling district electoral committee/municipal electoral committee in question.

5. Constituency electoral committees and municipal electoral committees shall make decisions on incentives to chair of polling district electoral committees in view of their contribution to organising and holding elections. Deputy chairs, members and secretaries of polling district electoral committees may be incentivised by a lump sum allowance paid by the decision of the constituency electoral committee or municipal electoral committee in question, provided that there is a nomination from the chair of the polling district electoral committee in question.