Fundamental Law
The Fundamental Law of Hungary (as in force on 13 December 2019) - English translation
Legislation
2011. évi CLXXXIX. törvény Magyarország helyi önkormányzatairól [Act CLXXXIX of 2011 on Local Governments in Hungary]
The 6th Amendment of the Fundamental Law modifying Art 51/A – on Terror Emergency (14.6.2016) (in Hungarian)
The 7th Amendment of the Fundamental Law – (modifying e.a. Art. XIV (1)-(3) – on immigration rules) 28.6.2018) (in Hungarian)
Act CXXX of 2018 on administrative courts and Act LXI of 2019 on postponing the entry into force of the Act on administrative courts (in English)
Act L of 2018 on the 2019 central budget of Hungary, Chapter IV - Relations between the local governments and the Central Subsystem (in Hungarian)
Act CXXXIX of 2018 on spatial planning of certain priority Regions in Hungary (in Hungarian)
Government Decree 94/2018. (22 May) on tasks and powers of members of the Government, according to Act V of 2018 listing the Ministries of Hungary and modifications of certain acts (in Hungarian)
Websites
Hungarian National Assembly website.
Official Government Website.
The National Federation of Municipal Governments (TÖOSZ).
National Federation of County Governments (MÖOSZ).
Federation of Towns with County Rank.
NUTS - NOMENCLATURE OF TERRITORIAL UNITS FOR STATISTICS
The National Repertory of Legal Sources has a special section on decrees of local authorities – Önkormányzati Rendeletek
Hungarian Associations of Local governments:
Magyar Polgármester
The Central Office of Statistics, Hungary
Publications
A collective work of DexiaCrédit Local Research Department, Sub-national governments in the European Union – Organisation, responsibilities and finance, Dexia Ed., La Défense, 2008.
Assembly of the Regions portal AER Members Regions
Assembly of the European Regions, Regisonalism Report on Hungary, 2012.
Committee of the Regions, European Commission – DG Regional Policy, Regional offices contact directory European Week of Regions and Cities Brussels, 6-9 October 2008
Council of European Municipalities and Regions list of members
Council of European Municipalities and Regions, Study on 'Consultation procedures within European States' 2007, 90-95. Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative.
Report on 'Subsidiarity in the multilevel framework of the Lisbon Treaty', Committee of the Regions, drafted by EIPA, 2011. Not published.
Programme: Territorial and settlement Development - HU - ERDF/ESF
STUDY ON MACROREGIONAL STRATEGIES AND THEIR LINKS WITH COHESION POLICY, Data and analytical report for the EUSDR , November 2017, Danube Region
Danube Region Regional policies in Hungary
2017 Annual Activity Report, DG Regional and Urban Policy
European Structural and Investment Funds, Country Data for: Hungary
European Commission - European Semester Country report 2019, Hungary
Hungary - National Reform Programme 2018 – report of the Government to EC and EP
Investment plan for Europe, April 2019, Junker plan in Hungary
Sources
Tax autonomy chart
The Ministry of Interior supports local government development, value 8 billion HUF (A BM 8 milliárd forinttal támogatja az önkormányzati fejlesztéseket)
2018
Additional 1236 local governments recieve 17,9 billion for development (További 1236 önkormányzat kap 17,9 milliárdot fejlesztésre )
2018
The Ministry of Interior organizes it's second conference on local governments (Második nemzetközi konferenciáját szervezi a Belügyminisztérium önkormányzati tématerületen)
2019
The government has elevated the sum for supporting delivery of social firewood with one billion HUF (Mintegy egymilliárd forinttal megemelte a kormány a szociális tűzifa támogatást)
2018
1710 small municipalities have gained financial support for local developments (1701 kistelepülés nyert forrást helyi fejlesztésekre)
2017
The Hungarian system of local governments is good, there shall not be need to reform it basically in a 20-25 year perspective (Jól működik a hazai önkormányzati rendszer, 20-25 évig nem szorul alapvető reformra)
2017
The new IT development aims good cooperation between the Government and municipalities (A kormány és a települések jó együttműködése az új informatikai fejlesztés célja)
2017
The calls for local government development and extraordinary support for this year are open (Megnyíltak az önkormányzatok idei fejlesztési és rendkívüli támogatási pályázatai)
2017
Local governments out of the dept consolidation have received 43 billion from 2014 (2014 óta 43 milliárdot kaptak az adósságkonszolidációban nem érintett önkormányzatok)
2016
A new project for renewal of local government management is starting (Az önkormányzati irányítást megújító projekt indul)
2016
Utilization of EU supports in Hungary is outstanding compared to other V4 countries (Az uniós források felhasználása Magyarországon a V4-ek között kiemelkedő )
2018
Sources of the SF would be less affected by post-2021 EU budget reduction (A szociális alap forrásait kevésbé érintené a 2021 utáni uniós költségvetés csökkenése)
2018
The EU transferred 4,4 billion euros to Hungary for development in last year (Az EU tavaly 4,4 milliárd eurót utalt fejlesztésre Magyarországnak)
2019
Hungary performs pre-eminetly well (Kiemelkedően jól teljesít Magyarország)
2018
38 billion HUF is avaible for territoritorial and municipal development in Baranya county (38 milliárd forint jut TOP-os fejlesztésekre Baranyában)
2017
New calls for local governmets, growing resources (Új pályázatok önkormányzatok számára, emelkedő források)
2017
