Article 69 of the Law on the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania adopts the following

decision:

1. To accept the petition of the Vilnius Regional Court requesting an investigation into whether the Decree of the President of the Republic of Lithuania (No. 164) “On Releasing Judges of Local Courts and Presidents of Courts from Office” of 22 July 2003 to the extent that it provides that Palmira Linkevičienė is dismissed from the office of a judge of the Biržai District Local Court as well as from the office of the President of the same court subsequent to Item 5 of Article 115 of the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania is not in conflict, as to its content and theprocedure 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, Paragraph 1 of Article 31 of the Constitution, Paragraph 2 of Article 6 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Article 155 of the Constitution, and Articles 83, 84, 85, Paragraphs 6 and 7 of Article 90 of the Republic of Lithuania’s Law on Courts, also whether Paragraph 8 of Article 90 of the Republic of Lithuania’s Law on Courts is not in conflict with Paragraph 2 of Article 31 of the Constitution and the principle