6) take measures to ensure that natural persons are guaranteed access to the service provided by number 116000 of harmonized services of social value. Article 6. The Communications Regulatory Authority 1. The Communications Regulatory Authority shall be an independent state institution responsible for the regulation of electronic communications activities and for the supervision of compliance with and implementation of the provisions of this Law, except where such supervision and implementation fall within the scope of competence of other state institutions. The Communications Regulatory Authority shall operate independently in accordance with this and other laws as well as its own regulations. The regulations of the Communications Regulatory Authority shall be approved by the Government. The Communications Regulatory Authority shall be a national regulatory authority of the Republic of Lithuania within the meaning of the European Union legal acts regulating social relations pertaining to the subject of this Law. 2. The Communications Regulatory Authority shall be a public legal entity having its bank account and a seal with the Lithuanian state emblem and its name inscribed therein. 3. The Communications Regulatory Authority shall be financed from the state budget and a separate budget of its own, comprised of revenues from services provided and work performed. The objects and scope of such services and work as well as the procedure of payment shall be established by the Communications Regulatory Authority on the basis of their costs. 4. Each year, by 1 May, the Communications Regulatory Authority shall submit to the Seimas and the Government and publish an annual report of the Communications Regulatory Authority on its operating and financial activities for the previous calendar year, indicating the charges collected and the costs incurred by the Communications Regulatory Authority. After having published the annual report identifying such costs and the amount of charges collected, the Communications Regulatory Authority shall make calculation of the difference between the costs incurred and the total sum of charges collected and approve appropriate adjustments to be made. 5. The Communications Regulatory Authority shall publish any information necessary for the development of an open and competitive market. The rules of publication of such information, including its scope, shall be established by the Communications Regulatory Authority, taking account of the legal norms regulating the protection of 14