Consumer Credit Providers

Consumer credit provider is a person other than a natural person, who provides or commits itself to provide consumer credit for business purposes. A person has the right to engage in credit provision activity only after the supervisory authority enters it on the Public List of Consumer Credit Providers. Natural persons and non-profit persons do not have the right to engage in consumer credit provision activity.

Consumer credit provision activity and the procedure for entering on the Public List of Consumer Credit Providers is regulated by the Republic of Lithuania Law on Consumer Credit (hereinafter ‘‘the Law’).

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Entering on the Public List of Consumer Credit Providers

A person can be entered on the Public List of Consumer Credit Providers if it complies with the requirements of the Law and of the legal acts of the supervisory authority, and provides to the supervisory authority the following documents, data, and information:

an application for entering on a Public List of Consumer Credit Providers;
information on the public register in which the supervisory authority can verify basic personal data. The supervisory authority has the right to require to submit an extended statement from the public register where necessary;
information on the persons, documents and data laid down in Article 22(2) of Law, proving their compliance with the requirements laid down in the same paragraph of Article 22;
rules for assessing the creditworthiness of borrowers;
information on registers and information systems to be referred to for the purposes of assessing the creditworthiness of borrowers;
a list of consumer credit intermediaries acting on behalf of a consumer credit provider, where the person relies on the services of consumer credit intermediaries.

Levy for entering on the list

Prior to applying for being entered on the Public List of Consumer Credit Providers it is necessary to pay into the account of the State Tax Inspectorate (STI) a state levy for entering on the List, which is currently is EUR 149 (the amounts of levies are fixed according to Resolution of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania No 1458 of 15 December 2000¹).

The procedure for the generation of online banking orders into the income collection accounts of the STI and the numbers of income collection accounts are available on the website of the STI.

¹ – Available only in Lithuanian.

Requirements for heads of consumer credit providers and creditor participants

A person meeting at least one of the conditions below cannot be the head of a consumer credit provider, natural or legal person or a concurrently acting person, who directly or indirectly holds a share of the voting rights or authorised capital accounting for or exceeding 20 per cent, or who may have a direct and/or indirect decisive impact, as defined in the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on Consolidated Financial Reporting by Groups of Undertakings¹, on the activities of the consumer credit provider:

the person was found guilty for committing a crime or a criminal offence related to money laundering or terrorist financing, a serious, very serious crime or offence or a criminal offence with respect to property, property rights and property interests, the economy and business practice, the financial system or equivalent criminal deeds under the criminal legislation of other countries, if the person’s conviction has not expired;
directly or indirectly manages or managed a qualifying holding in the authorised capital and/or voting rights or a holding allowing to have a decisive impact on a legal person, or is or was the head of a legal person deprived of the right to engage in the provision of financial services, or that legal person was found guilty of the crime or criminal offence specified in sub-paragraph 1 of this paragraph.

A consumer credit provider must notify the supervisory authority of all future changes in the above-named persons, submitting together information, specified by the supervisory authority, necessary to assess whether the new heads being appointed or to be appointed, and/or other persons meet the requirements established in Article 22(2) of the Law. Newly appointed or elected heads of consumer credit providers may take up duties, and other persons – acquire a holding in the consumer credit provider’s voting rights or authorised capital only after the supervisory authority approves of their candidacy or the acquisition transaction.

¹ – Lithuanian consolidated version valid as of 1 January 2017. English version last amended on 1 July 2015.

Statutory timeframe

The supervisory authority, after assessing a person’s application and submitted documents, data and information, shall, no later than within 30 business days of the receipt of the application, take a decision to enter the person on the Public List of Consumer Credit Providers or not, and shall notify the applicant in writing thereof. Where the supervisory authority requests additional documents, data and/or information necessary for taking a decision or where they are provided at the initiative of a person who submitted an application for being entered on the Public List of Consumer Credit Providers, and/or where the supervisory authority applies to persons specified in Article 22(2) of the Law regarding submission of documents, data and/or information, the supervisory authority shall take a decision on entering the person on the Public List of Consumer Credit Providers or not entering no later than within 30 business days of the receipt of the additional documents, data and/or information.

Laws and legal acts regulating consumer credit provider activity and entering on the Public List of Consumer Credit Providers

² – Lithuanian consolidated version valid as of 18 November 2016–30 June 2017. English version last amended on 18 December 2010.

³ – Lithuanian consolidated version valid as of 1 November 2016. English version last amended on 14 October 2014.

⁴ – Lithuanian consolidated version valid as of 1 December 2016. English version last amended on 17 January 2008.

⁵ – Lithuanian consolidated version valid as of 20 December 2022. English translation as of 30 January 2023.

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Last update: 04-02-2025