as to its content and the procedure of the adoption established in the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania, with the principles of a just civil society and state under the rule of law which are entrenched in the Preamble to the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania, Paragraph 1 of Article 29 of the Constitution, consolidating the principle of equality of all persons before the law, Paragraph 1 of Article 31 of the Constitution and Paragraph 2 of Article 6 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, consolidating the principle of the presumption of innocence of the person, Article 155 of the Constitution to the extent that judges are released from office under procedure established by law, also the procedure established inof the President of the Republic and the Government are not in conflict with the Constitution or laws.

2. Paragraph 3 of Article 138 of the Constitution provides:

“International treaties which are ratified by the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania shall be a constituent part of the legal system of the Republic of Lithuania.”

While construing this provision of the Constitution, the Constitutional Court has held that it means that the treaties ratified by the Seimas acquire the power of the law (the Constitutional Court’s ruling of 17 October 1995).

Under the Constitution, the Constitutional Court does not investigate the compliance of a law with an act having the force of a law (the Constitutional Court’s decision of 25 April 2002).

Conforming to Article 28 and Item 2 of Paragraph 1 of