The purpose of this Law is to establish the spheres of activities involving genetically modified organisms and genetically modified products, their state management and regulation, also the rights, duties and responsibility of the users of the said organisms and products.

The Law aplies to all natural and legal persons who are connected with deliberate release into the environment, use, placing on the market, carrying out of tests and research, and other activities involving genetically modified organisms and geneticaly modified products, provided for by this Law, in the territory of the Republic of Lithuania.
The Law does not establish compulsory safety requirements for the carriage of genetically modified organisms and genetically modified products across the territory of the Republic of Lithuania in transit, also by rail, road, inland waterway, sea or air. The above requirements is established by other legal acts of the Republic of Lithuania.