N AT I O N A L CY B E R S ECU R I T Y ST R AT EGY 5 General Provisions 1. The National Cyber Security Strategy (hereinafter referred to as the “Strategy”) defines the most important pillars of the national cyber security policy. The Strategy is aimed at strengthening the development of the state’s cyber security and cyber defence capabilities preventing and investigating cybercrimes, promoting cyber security culture and the development of innovation, enhancing close private-public partnership (PPP) and international cooperation, and ensuring the fulfilment of international cyber security obligations within the country until 2023. 2. The Strategy has been developed in consideration of the environmental analysis, data from the conducted research, and suggestions offered by public and private sector representatives. It meets the provisions of the Programme of the Seventeenth Government of the Republic of Lithuania, which was accepted by Resolution No. XIII-82 of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania of 13 December 2016 “On the Programme of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania” (hereinafter referred to as the “Programme of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania”), the National Security Strategy approved by Resolution No. IX-907 of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania of 28 May 2002 “On the Approval of the National Security Strategy”, the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on Cyber Security, the communications and recommendations made by the European Parliament, the Council, and the European Commission in the field of cyber security as well as the Commu- nication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions “A Digital Single Market Strategy for Europe” dated 6 May 2015 and the Lithuanian Information Society Development Programme 2014–2020 “Digital Agenda of the Republic of Lithuania” approved by Resolution No. 244 of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania of 12 March 2014 “On the Approval of Lithuanian Information Society Development Programme 2014-2020 “Digital Agenda of the Republic of Lithuania”. After Lithuania joined the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), recommendations produced by this organisation on Digital Security Risk Management for Economic and Social Prosperity have also become part of the key guidelines reflected in the Strategy. 3. Terms used in the Strategy shall have the same meanings as those defined in the Law on Cyber Security, the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on the Organisation of the National Defence System and Military Service, the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on Higher Education and Research and the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on the Right to Obtain Information from State and Municipal Institutions and Agencies.