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“The Commission has decided today (Wednesday – BNS) that the Commission will not grant Mr. Gustav an exemption from the employment restriction at the center. This means that he must be subject to the requirement to ‘cool down’ for one year, he told BNS COEC spokeswoman Eglė Ivanauskaitė.
Agriculture Minister Kęstutis Navickas confirmed to BNS that E. Gustas will not be appointed to this position. However, he has not yet been able to say what the next steps will be for the center director’s competence.
“Since the competition ended a long time ago, now it is necessary to find out, the lawyers will have to decide how to do it, if we have to confirm the second candidate or if the results of the competition are no longer valid. I cannot say what the next action will be today, “Navick said.
According to E. Ivanauskaitė, the commission analyzed the decisions made by E. Gusto in his capacity as Vice Minister and established that in October of this year he chaired the meeting of the Strategic Planning Committee of the Ministry and signed its minutes, which decided to allocate an additional 58 thousand . euros.
“In the opinion of the commissioners, people who hold such high positions should not be employed in subordinate legal entities, as this would contradict the purpose of the Conciliation of Public and Private Interests Act and create the appearance of opacity,” said E. Ivanauskaitė.
E. Gustas himself submitted an application to the commission: he asked for an opinion on whether he could be appointed to this position without breaking the law.
At the beginning of December, the commission had already expressed the opinion that E. Gustas must “cool down” for a year for the same reason and cannot work at the center.
Later, the commission’s opinion was requested by former minister Andrius Palionis. He approached COEC after the commission had not launched an investigation into Mr. Gusto in early November and recommended that it assess whether there were legal obstacles to occupying the position before making a decision on his employment.
In late October, Andrius Vyšniauskas, a member of the National-Lithuanian Union Christian Democratic Party, also submitted a request to the COEC, asking for an investigation into whether E. Gustas should not be subject to a one-year “reflection” period.
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