1 Teaching on E-government: aspects of legal environment Rimantas Petrauskas, Mindaugas Kiškis Law University of Lithuania The multiplicity of e-Government issues formulate the need to identify key areas to be addressed for successfully implementing e-Government initiatives. For this reason a holistic framework must be elaborated, which could identify and address all relevant issues impacting e-Government development – among them – different user groups with diverging service needs and interaction requirements, distinct government processes, internal and external transformation of governance, legal and processes reform, etc. Legal reform aimed at creating of favourable legal environment is very important part of development of e-government, since governmental activities are strongly regulated and driven by legal framework including national constitutions, laws and other regulations. With the use of modern IT and communication facilities, electronic public service provision and delivery require the adaptation of laws to make e-Government solutions legally binding and sound. In particular this refers to the questions of electronic signatures and electronic documentation, electronic communication among governmental agencies and citizens, data protection and data security, access to public information, networking of authorities and databases, among other legal issues of e-government. During the last years the European Union has introduced important new legislation in this area and a high number of new regulatory texts are still in the stage of preparation. Because the initiatives in this area are so numerous and divergent, it is not always easy to see clearly the overall policy behind all this activity, hence national laws enacted by the European Union members and accession countries are rather incoherent and sporadic [1]. At the moment, most of the European countries do not have any special law, which would regulate the development of e-government and its processes. Nevertheless, some laws contain provisions, which refer to the e-government or the regulation of it development: these may be laws on Telecommunications, laws on Electronic Signature, laws on Provision of Information to the Public, laws on Legal Protection of Personal Data, laws on Consumer Protection and similar.