Central

Government authorities are responsible for:

• The enforcement of environmental requirements during the performance of the duties of the state with other aims;
• The direction of the utilisation, the preservation, the prevention of the damaging, the elimination of posing hazard to, the restoration, and the gradual improvement of the state of the environment;
• The determination of the priority tasks of environmental protection;
• The establishment of a legal, economic and technical regulatory system for the attainment of environmental goals;
• The performance of state administration duties of environmental protection;
• The development, maintenance and operation of a system serving as a basis for the execution of the tasks, and measuring monitoring, controlling, evaluating the state of the environment, as well as providing information about the impacts thereof;
• The exploration of the state of the environment, the determination of the extent to which the environment may be loaded and utilised;
• The determination of the tasks of research, technical development, education, training and culture, the provision of information, as well as of product and technology qualification in environmental protection, and the provision for the performance thereof;
• Provision for the economic and financial bases of environmental protection.

Regional

Regional authorities are responsible for:

• Preparing environmental programmes coordinated with the municipal local authorities;
• Giving their preliminary opinions on the municipal environmental programmes or may initiate the preparation thereof;
• Taking a stand on the draft municipal by-laws of municipal local authorities affecting environmental protection;
• Making recommendations for the foundation of municipal environmental associations.

Local

Local authorities are responsible for: 

• Protection of the local environment and nature;
• Environmental health (Refuse collection; Sanitation of urban environment; Control of pest and rodents);
• Water management;
• Treatment, collection, drainage and purification of municipal sewage,
• Preventing flood damages;
• Drinking water supply;
• Canalisation.

The capital City of Budapest has responsibilities in the field of:

• Drinking water supply;
• Canalisation;
• Management and disposal of waste water (sewage service);
• Waste management;
• Protection of the environment and nature;
• Water management;
• Prevention of flood damage.

Responsible ministries/bodies

Ministry of Agriculture

Sources:

Act LIII of 1995on the General Rules of Environmental Protection

2011. évi CLXXXIX. törvényMagyarországhelyiönkormányzatairól [Local Self-Government Act No. CLXXXIX of 28.12.2011]

Government regulation 94/ 2018(V.22)  on tasks and powers of members of the Government (94/2018. (V. 22.) Korm. rendelet

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