N AT I O N A L CY B E R S ECU R I T Y ST R AT EGY 21 Implementation of and Responsibility for the Strategy 43. The Government of the Republic of Lithuania shall approve an inter-institutional operational plan where particular measures and funds will be foreseen in order to implement the targets and objectives of the Strategy. The Ministry of National Defence shall coordinate the drafting of this plan jointly with the NCSC. Ministries, other state or municipal authorities, agencies or organisations specified in the inter-institutional operational plan of the Strategy shall, within the limits of their competence, participate in the implementation of the Strategy (hereinafter referred to as the “Strategy Implementers”). 44. Non-governmental organisations, representatives of public and private stakeholders and Lithuania’s academia may contribute to the Strategy’s implementation and the fulfilment of its goals and objectives. 45. Each year the Strategy shall be implemented using funds allocated from the Republic of Lithuania state budget, municipal budgets, the European Union and other international funds, and other legally obtained sources. The responsibility for planning of the required financial resources shall be assumed by the Strategy Implementers and shall be carried out according to the principle of subsidiarity as defined in the Law on Cybersecurity. 46. The accomplishment of the Strategy’s goals shall be assessed according to the criteria for implementation of the Strategy and the targeted values indicated in the Annex to the Strategy. Monitoring and assessment of the implementation of the Strategy will be also based on publicly available data derived from the Department of Statistics, Eurostat, sociological surveys and other surveys. The Ministry of National Defence, the NCSC and the Cyber Security Council shall monitor the results of the Strategy’s implementation. 47. The Strategy Implementers shall provide the NCSC with information on the course of the implementation of the Strategy and its effectiveness along with supporting documents after the end of a year but no later than before 15 January of the following year. This information may be accompanied where appropriate with proposals for revision of the Strategy or its implementation documents. If requested by the NCSC, the Strategy Implementers are obliged to submit any other information required for monitoring of the Strategy implementation results. All stakeholders are entitled to propose updates to the provisions of the Strategy at any time during its implementation. 48. After receipt of the information specified in Paragraph 47 of the Strategy, the NCSC shall provide the Ministry of National Defence with processed data on the state of implementation of the Strategy’s targets and objectives of the previous year and shall also forward its suggestions and indicated problematic issues which hinder the implementation of the Strategy no later than 1 February of the current year. 49. The Ministry of National Defence shall summarise the information received over the previous year and the data about the course of implementation as well as efficiency of the Strategy by 1 March each year. Aggregated information on the annual implementation of the Strategy shall then be presented to the Cyber Security Council and submitted to the Government. The Government shall report to the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania with regard to the implementation of the Strategy annually by providing an Annual Report on the State of National Security and Development. 50. All public information related to the annual and final Strategy implementation assessments shall be announced on the NCSC website. 51. The NCSC shall draft a final assessment of the implementation of the Strategy six months before the Strategy’s implementation deadline and shall submit it to the Ministry of National Defence. It shall be then forwarded to the Cyber Security Council and the Government.