Lithuania

Legislation

• The Law on Legal Protection of Personal Data (1996, 2008)
• Law on the Rights of Patients and Compensation of the Damage to their Health (1996, 2004) (in Lithuanian)
  
• The Law on Ethics of Biomedical Research  (2000, 2004, 2007). The Law on Biomedical Research does not specifically deal with research on BBDGs. However research on “tissues, organs, cells and genetic material, cadavers and medical documents” is included into its scope.

Other references

• Commentary on the Law on Legal Protection of Personal Data (in Lithuanian, 2005)