14 14 N A T I O N A L S E C U R I T Y S T R A T E G Y 18.15. strengthening of economic and energy security. In order to ensure economic and energy security, the Republic of Lithuania will: 18.15.1. implement macro-economic policy aimed at fiscal and monetary stability, sustainable growth of economy, export diversification, and prevention of financial and economic crises; cooperate with other states in order to prevent money laundering, tax evasion, especially through off-shore companies, make funding of agencies, enterprises and organizations important to the State and their financial discipline more transparent; 18.15.2. take measures preventing one investor of the Republic of Lithuania or a foreign investor from dominating in strategic sectors of the economy and preventing the capital which does not meet the national security interests from penetrating the country’s businesses, provide protection to the strategic sectors of the economy, enterprises and equipment, as well as take measures preventing economic entities which do not meet the national security interests from taking over land plots; 18.15.3. ensure a continuous supply of energy from safe and reliable sources, reduce the national energy systems’ dependence on the dominant energy suppliers by diversification and competition of energy sources. In order to ensure national security, electricity import from the neighbouring third countries in which the implementation of nuclear power plant projects poses a threat to the national security, environment and population of the Republic of Lithuania will be limited; 18.15.4. carry out comprehensive integration of the national energy systems into the EU energy market and systems and the common European internal energy market, seek the synchronization of the electricity system with the electricity networks of continental Europe; 18.15.5. reduce energy dependence on import by promoting the use of local and renewable energy sources, implementing energy efficiency measures and evaluating possibilities of nuclear energy use; 18.15.6. seeking to enable the operation of energy undertakings under emergency conditions, in the event of a significant decrease in or a complete failure of supply of energy or its sources, accumulate and store the required reserves of energy sources, strengthen regional co-operation in this field; 18.15.7. take measures complying with national security interests, which enhance competitiveness of the transport infrastructure of the Republic of Lithuania in the region, actively defend the interests of national carriers in foreign markets; 18.15.8. in order to diversify export markets of both goods and services, as well as transit freight flows through the Republic of Lithuania, promote development of the East-West transport corridor, the Baltic Sea-Black Sea transport corridor and the North Sea-Baltic Sea transport corridor, including the European track gauge Rail Baltica railway and Via Baltica road network, to integrate the Republic of Lithuania into the EU transport networks; 18.16. strengthening of cyber security. In order to fully strengthen national cyber security, the Republic of Lithuania will: 18.16.1. develop the national cyber security system, with a particular focus on implementation of cyber security requirements and ensuring of cyber security of the critical information infrastructure and state institutions;

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