Lithuanian Business Confederation
LBC
Representation of a modern and responsible business in order to create the best conditions for creating value in Lithuania.
ID: 638186747396-81
Lobbying Activity
Meeting with Maria Luís Albuquerque (Commissioner) and
7 Nov 2025 · Savings and Investments Union (SIU) Financial Literacy Pensions Regulation
Response to Carbon price paid in a third country under the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM)
25 Sept 2025
Lithuanian Business Confederation (LVK) submits its position to the ongoing European Commission consultations on the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). The document outlines key challenges for businesses, emphasizes the need for proportional and carefully assessed implementation, and proposes measures to safeguard EU industry competitiveness while supporting decarbonisation efforts.
Read full responseResponse to Adjustment of the obligation to surrender CBAM certificates to take account of ETS free allowances phase-out
25 Sept 2025
Lithuanian Business Confederation (LVK) submits its position to the ongoing European Commission consultations on the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). The document outlines key challenges for businesses, emphasizes the need for proportional and carefully assessed implementation, and proposes measures to safeguard EU industry competitiveness while supporting decarbonisation efforts.
Read full responseResponse to Carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) methodology for the definitive period
25 Sept 2025
Lithuanian Business Confederation (LVK) submits its position to the ongoing European Commission consultations on the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). The document outlines key challenges for businesses, emphasizes the need for proportional and carefully assessed implementation, and proposes measures to safeguard EU industry competitiveness while supporting decarbonisation efforts.
Read full responseResponse to Pact for the eastern border regions
18 Sept 2025
The Lithuanian business community welcomes the Commissions consultation on the Pact for the Eastern Border Regions and wishes to highlight the severe economic, social and security consequences of the illegal trade in tobacco and related excisable goods. These problems are acute in Lithuania and across the Baltic States, directly undermining EU cohesion and security objectives. Belarus remains the largest source of illicit whites entering the EU. These are non-duty-paid cigarettes produced legally but sold illegally into Lithuania and the wide. Some 3.9 billion cigarettes emanated from Belarus in 2024, with around 500 million cigarettes landing in Lithuania. In context, this accounts for around 19.5% of total consumption, or 1 in every 5 cigarettes consumed in Lithuania. Latvia faces similar exposure at 18%. Smuggling across Lithuania / EUs eastern border is increasingly complemented by illegal manufacturing inside EU territory. In Latvia, authorities detained 32 people, seized around 300 million cigarettes and approximately 47 tonnes of shredded tobacco leaves[1]. In Kaunas, police dismantled an illegal cigarette factory with 11 detainees, including Belarusian nationals linked to state-owned tobacco enterprises[2]. These illegal activities may directly finance the Belarusian regime and illustrate a dangerous change in modus operandiillicit production is moving inside EU borders, increasing risks to public safety, undermining legitimate businesses and weakening resilience. Europol and OLAF have repeatedly warned of these trends, as have Member States. These issues, however, are not being properly considered by other branches of the EU Commission when determining policy, even though Council and Commission have already recognised that such illegal actions undermine regional development, fuels depopulation, and erodes public trust. Lithuanian retailers, wholesalers, and small enterprises (SMEs) lose market share daily to criminal networks. Legal businesses face unfair competition, reduced investment, and reputational damage, while the Lithuanian state loses excise and VAT revenues worth hundreds of millions of euros annually. Illicit trade in tobacco products is a criminal and fiscal issue, and a direct challenge to EU businesses, and therefore the EUs economic wellbeing, internal market, and security. [1] Europol, Latvian Authorities Dismantle Massive Illegal Cigarette Factory, Europol, December 16, 2024. [2] LRT English, Police Bust Illegal Cigarette Factory in Kaunas, Belarusians among 11 Detainees, LRT.lt, August 22, 2025.
Read full responseResponse to Amendment of the free allocation rules in response to the ETS revision/Fit For 55
2 Jan 2024
The Lithuanian Business Confederation (ICC Lithuania) welcomes the European Commission's initiative to revise the Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/331 on the free ETS allocation rules by drafting a proposal for a revised Delegated Regulation. In amending the Delegated Regulation, the European Commission recognizes the challenges European energy-intensive industries face due to energy and raw materials supply constraints worsened by the Russian invasion of Ukraine (as stated in recital 15). Lithuanian businesses have been particularly impacted by the exogenous price shock that followed this invasion, leading several large businesses to temporarily cut or shut down production during the peaks of raw materials and energy prices in European markets. As a result, some businesses covered by the ETS are affected by their previous decision to stop production, as the allocation of free allowances today is reduced due to lower production during the peaks of energy prices. This leads to the erosion of competitiveness in restarting production for some businesses. This problem is conditional on the regulatory situation and it can be solved with revisions of the Delegated Regulation. Notably, this situation is still affecting businesses, even if energy prices in European markets have since come down. Lithuanian Business Confederation firmly believes that more action is required to protect the competitiveness of the EU industry from exogenous shocks. Concerning the revision of the Delegated Regulation, we fully support Lithuanian businesses' proposals submitted during this public consultation, particularly those related to the calculation of the median by incorporating a force majeure clause for years with large drops in activity (production) levels. Therefore, we support these proposals already submitted to the Commission by Lithuanian businesses: a new recital 16 as an exception to recital 15, whereby calendar years in which force majeure events have occurred should not be taken into account in establishing a baseline for calculating the median. a corresponding new paragraph 8 to Article 15 of Delegated Regulation 2019/331, to exclude any force majeure years from the baseline for calculating the median. a revised Article 2 of Draft Delegated Regulation regarding the temporal application of Article 1, paragraph 6 (corresponding to the new paragraph 8 to Article 15 of Delegated Regulation 2019/331) to allocations relating to the period from 1 January 2022 to reflect the occurrence of a force majeure event of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its ensuing challenges in the 2022-2024 period in establishing the baseline for calculating the median. Lithuanian company AB Achema provided specific texts in the consultation, which the Lithuanian Business Confederation supports. The Lithuanian Business Confederation (ICC Lithuania) is one of the largest business organizations in Lithuania. Members of LBC employ over 200 thousand employees and create over 20% of the Lithuanian gross domestic product. The Lithuanian Business Confederation is also a national committee of the International Chamber of Commerce in Lithuania.
Read full responseResponse to Rationalisation of reporting requirements
28 Nov 2023
Lietuvos verslo konfederacija, viena didžiausių verslus vienijančių organizacijų Lietuvoje, teikia savo narių pastebėjimus dėl veiksmų/ataskaitų, kurios didina administracinę naštą ir/ arba kaštus. 1) Draudimo bendrovės pažymi Kredito reitingo įstaigų licencijos pirkimą jos turi sudaryti sutartį su kredito reitingą teikiančiomis įmonėmis dėl licencijos/ teisės tam, kad galėtų ataskaitų ruošime nurodyti, kad naudojami jų kreditų reitingai, nors kredito reitingai yra skelbiami viešai ir nemokamai. T. y. draudimo bendrovės moka tik už galimybę pasakyti, kad naudojasi X kompanijos kredito reitingo įvertinimais. 2) Tvarumo ataskaitų teikimas pagal CSRD ir taksonomijos atskleidimai negalvojame, kad tai perteklinė ataskaita, bet norėtume atkreipti dėmesį, jog pats naujos ataskaitos ruošimas reikalaus didelio įmonės įsitraukimo ir kaštų: Konsultantai skaičiuoja įkainius nuo 10 000 iki 100 000 Eur už ataskaitų pilną parengimą. Digital tagging reikės padaryti, kad ataskaitas būtų galima nuskaityti robotukais, AI ir pan. priemonėmis, atitinkamai jos turės atitikti tam tikrą standartą, kas pareikalaus daugiau IT darbų ir kaštų. Pradėjus skaičiuoti CO2 emisijas, įmonės investicinės veiklos pagal tam tikras patvirtintas metodikas pareikalaus labai didelių kaštų ne tik žmogiškųjų resursų, bet ir pinigine prasme (duombazės apie įmonių išmetamą C02 kiekį yra labai brangios, ne visose visų įmonių statistika yra ir pan.). 3) Perteklinis raportavimas dėl Polish Commercial Companies Code papildymo įmonė privalo teikti duomenis ne tik savo stebėtojų tarybai, bet ir motininės įmonės stebėtojų tarybai, kas turi būti daroma tam tikra specialia forma, ties kuria reikia papildomai dirbti, ir tai užima laiko.
Read full responseMeeting with Petras Auštrevičius (Member of the European Parliament)
15 Nov 2022 · Internal market