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In late January 2026, the Media Council of the National Media and Infocommunications Authority (Nemzeti Média és Hírközlési Hatóság - NMHH) issued several decisions regarding non-compliance with advertising regulations by both private and public service media providers. The administrative body penalised ATV Zrt., Hír TV Zrt., and the public service broadcaster Duna Médiaszolgáltató Nonprofit Zrt. for various violations, ranging from surreptitious commercial communication to the volume of advertisements. As part of its...

Between January and February 2026, the Media Council of the National Media and Infocommunications Authority (Nemzeti Média és Hírközlési Hatóság - NMHH) issued two decisions regarding the commercial broadcaster TV2 Zrt., imposing fines totalling approximately 20 million Hungarian forints (HUF) (EUR 52 700). The cases involve a breach of age-rating provisions in a music talent show and a violation of human dignity during a current affairs programme. In both instances, the Media Council also levied personal fines against the media service provider’s...

On 1 January 2026, Hungarian mobile operators Magyar Telekom, One Magyarország and Yettel Magyarország launched safe mobile internet access for minors. The new service, which is available free of charge to individual subscribers, prevents children from visiting Hungary's most popular pornographic websites on the mobile network. In May 2025, the Nemzeti Média- és Hírközlési Hatóság (National Media and Infocommunications Authority, NMHH) issued Decree 7/2025 on detailed rules relating to the secure service provided for minors. It...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has added a new wagon to its locomotive judgment in the case of Goodwin v. United Kingdom (IRIS 1996-4:1/4) on the protection of journalistic sources. The recent judgment in the case of Klaudia Csikós v. Hungary summarises and applies the court’s case law robustly protecting journalistic sources against secret surveillance by the police or other government agencies (see also Sergey Sorokin v. Russia, IRIS 2022-9:1/17 and Big Brother Watch a.o. v. the United Kingdom, IRIS 2021-7:1/20). The ECtHR found that the Hungarian authorities failed to...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered an interesting judgment on the impact of the right to freedom of expression under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) within private relations and the positive obligation of the authorities to safeguard the right to freedom of expression and information in contractual relations. The ECtHR unanimously found that imposing a fine on an actor for having disclosed confidential information about the terms of his contract with a TV company, did not violate the actor’s freedom of expression. The Court held that the dissemination...