The master’s final work is written in Lithuanian language, consists of 77 Pages, 23 Figures, 16 Tables, 54 References, and 11 Appendixes. KEY Words: health insurance, health insurance system, compulsory health insurance, additional (voluntary) health insurance, health insurance Fund, Compulsory Health Insurance Fund Budget, health insurance payments, financing of health attendance, health attendance costs, efficiency. Research object: health insurance system. Research subject: health insurance. Research aim: after analyzing the theoretical and practical aspects of health insurance, to evaluate health insurance system in Lithuania, to foresee its perspectives and to provide the proposals for development. Objectives: to show the theoretical aspects of health insurance, to evaluate health system in Lithuania according to the chosen criterion (financing model, incomes, costs), to foresee the perspectives of health system and to provide the proposals for development. Research methods: analysis and synthesis of literature, logical analysis and synthesis, filing, comparison, vertical and horizontal analysis, simple linear regression and correlation, forecast calculations, diagrammatical representation of data. Health insurance system in Lithuania was analyzed and evaluated as well as the proposals for it’s development were presented by using scientific literature of foreign and Lithuanian authors, legislation, chronicles of statistics and electronic information sources.

Basic concepts: environmental protection, legal regulation, sustainable development, protection of water and air quality, waste management, financing of environmental protection, transposition and implementation of legislation. The aim of the thesis is to determine and look into the influence of the EU environmental policy on the formation of Lithuania’s environmental policy. To this end, the analysis of EU environmental policy documents and directives has been carried out, and their transposition and implementation in Lithuania’s environmental policy have been considered. Focus has also been placed on the financing of the EU environmental policy and absorption of EU assistance in Lithuania. An expert survey has been carried out to attain this objective. The object of the thesis is the process of implementation of the EU environmental policy and its legal norms in Lithuania. The thesis raises a hypothesis that the implementation of the EU environmental policy in Lithuania depends on the competence of Lithuania’s management authorities and EU financial assistance, as the failure to absorb it indicates an inadequate level of development and efficiency of Lithuania’s environmental policy. The research performed in the thesis has supported the hypothesis. The present master’s thesis consists of three sections. The first section of the thesis analyses EU environmental programmes and their impact on the development of the EU environmental policy and presents the legal regulation of... [to full text]