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On 29 May 2001, the Hungarian Parliament adopted Act XXXV of 2001 on Electronic Signature ("the Act"). Most provisions of the Act entered into force on 1 September 2001. The Act covers the scope of the utilization of electronic signatures and the legal conditions for the acceptance of electronic signatures. The Act also specifies the level of security that an electronic document must reach in order to be considered valid and the legal consequences of using electronic documents and services related to electronic signatures. The Act also sets forth the substantive and procedural rules on related...

In a decision published at the end of August, the Országos Rádió és Televízió Testület (ORTT), the Hungarian national radio and television authority, expressed its views on Bertelsmann's media involvement in Hungary. Bertelsmann, which operates the Hungarian commercial TV station RTL Klub through its involvement with the RTL Group, and which also controls the high-circulation national newspaper Nepszabadsag, was ordered to give up its ownership of one of these companies within 180 days. Under Chapter 8 of Media Act No.I/1996, which contains regulations on media ownership, a company that holds...

The Hungarian Parliament adopted the new consolidated Act on Communications drafted on the basis of EU communications legislation. The Act sets out rules for the telecommunications sector, the cable TV market and postal services. Its main objectives are to ensure the infrastructural development of the information society, to liberalize the Hungarian voice telephony market and to lead the Hungarian communications market to international standard. The Act is also aimed at ensuring competition, and calls for co-operation among communications networks. In addition to general competition regulation...

On 14 March 2001, the largest internet content providers of Hungary have founded their professional organisation, the Magyarországi Tartalomszolgáltatók Egyesülete (Hungarian Content Providers' Association - MTE). The main objective of the MTE is to fulfil the self-regulatory role concerning internet content. At the time of its foundation, the MTE has also approved an Tartalomszolgáltatási Kódex (Internet content code). The code is based on the distinction between edited content, published by the content provider; paid content, that means content of commercial nature such as advertising; and user-generated...

In December 1999, based on Government Resolution No. 2198 (IX.9.), the Hungarian government prepared modification proposals to Act I on Radio and Television ("Media Act"). The proposed changes consist of 20 articles. The main purpose of the amendments is to harmonise the Media Act with the Council Directive 89/552 EEC as amended by Council Directive 97/36 EC ("Directive") and the European Convention on Transfrontier Television of the Council of Europe ("Convention"). According to the proposal, programme distribution will be considered as broadcasting and will be regulated in a separate chapter....