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Following a preparatory process lasting nearly four years, the Parliament of the Republic of Hungary has approved the Bill on the Amendment of Act No. I of 1996 on Radio and Television Services ("Broadcasting Act"). The amendment concerns issues aimed at achieving full harmonisation of the Hungarian Broadcasting Act with the relevant EU legislation and with the European Convention on Transfrontier Television as recently amended by a protocol. The amendment has been enacted following the fourth submission of the Bill, which according to the provisions of the Constitution of Hungary required a two-thirds...

On 7March 2002, the Országos Rádió és Televízió Testület (National Radio and Television Commission - ORTT) published a concept paper on regulation concerning Internet content. The document entitled “Principles of content regulation for public electronic communications” was prepared by a group of experts working with the Co-ordination of the Strategy Directorate of the ORTT's Office. Professional organisations, such as the Hungarian Content Providers' Association, the Conciliatory Forum for Informatics, and the Hungarian Bureau for the Protection of Authors' Rights (ARTISJUS) also contributed to...

The National Radio and Television Commission (NRTC) on 26 October 2001 filed a first written notice to Pannon Radio, a regional commercial broadcaster, in relation to its program entitled "Standard" and imposed a fine of HUF 1 Million (about EUR 4,078). In September 2001, during the Pannon Radio's "Standard", the full text of an already-published article of the Vice-president of the Hungarian Justice and Life Party (HJLP) and Member of Parliament representing HJLP was read. Originally the article was published in a HJLP party paper. In connection with the article mentioned above, a criminal investigation...

On 5 December 2001 the Constitutional Court delivered a resolution on the amendment of Article 79 of Act 1959 on the Civil Code that has been adopted as "Lex Répássy" by Parliament on 29 May 2001. The Amendment, in addition to other legal remedies that are specified in the Civil Code, was intended to grant a right to reply when opinions and comments are expressed that violate a person's honour and good reputation. According to the Amendment, in the cases of such violations, the Courts are obliged to impose a public interest fine on the media up to an unlimited amount. When the Amendment was adopted,...

At the end of its winter session of 2001, the Hungarian legislator approved Act No. CVIII of 2001 on certain aspects of electronic commerce and information society services (Act on E-Commerce). The new act contains a set of rules that are necessary to implement Directive 2000/31/EC into national law. The most important legal institutions established by the new act can be summarised as follows: - The act introduces the limitation of liability concerning providers of intermediary services. Beside the cases specified in the corresponding directive - services consisting of `mere conduit'; `caching'...