Official translationREPUBLIC OF LITHIUANIALAW ON FOOD4 April 2000 No VIII-1608VilniusCHAPTER IGENERAL PROVISIONSArticle 1. Purpose of the Law 1. This Law shall lay down the requirements for food placed on the market and its handling, the competence of state institutions and public organisations for the protection of consumers’ rights in ensuring food safety; it shall also regulate duties and liability of food producers, food service operators and food traders. 2. The purpose of this Law is to ensure that: 1) food placed on the market meets the safety requirements laid down by this Law and other legal acts; 2) food meets international requirements for a free movement of goods and that a Lithuanian food producer could increase the export of his goods to other countries, and that food produced in Lithuania could compete more effectively on the international market; 3) production of ecological agricultural products, higher nutrition standards of the Lithuania...