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Monday, 22 June 2026
Several drafts appeared, including one on an office to recover unlawfully acquired public assets and one on compensation for the 2025 drought damage. These were only proposals; comments were open until 30 June.
The Hungarian Gazette published the consolidated text of the Fundamental Law, containing the state in force on 20 June 2026 including amendments. The publication itself does not amend the Fundamental Law but brings the amendments so far into one text. Exactly which amendments are included is not stated separately in the document.
Weight: 1/3 · Consolidated text, not a new decision.
Draft: an interior minister's decree would expand eligibility for the school enrolment allowance. Orphans of persons declared fallen members of a law enforcement body would also receive it, not only orphans of heroes and those who died in service. No substantive comments were received during consultation. The decree would enter into force on the eighth day after publication; comments could be sent until 30 June 2026.
Weight: 2/3 · substantive · Draft put out for public consultation (comments until 30 June 2026).
Official introduction (original Hungarian): Társadalmi egyeztetés a belügyi állomány szociális támogatásáról
Draft: an interior minister's decree would change which prison confinement must be served in according to place of residence. Men from Baranya County would go to the Állampuszta and women from Tolna County to the Kiskunhalas National Prison. People from Veszprém County would be placed in the Veszprém County Prison instead of Szombathely. The aim is better use of prison capacity; comments could be sent until 30 June 2026.
Weight: 2/3 · substantive · Draft put out for public consultation (comments until 30 June 2026).
Official introduction (original Hungarian): Társadalmi egyeztetés a büntetés-végrehajtási intézetek kijelöléséről
Draft: the agriculture minister would amend the Hungarian Food Codex requirements on quick-frozen foods. In line with an EU directive, the 6 °C temperature fluctuation so far allowed in retail would end. Composition, quality and labelling rules would change for certain quick-frozen products, for example creamed spinach, chips, chestnut products and nokedli dumplings; comments could be sent until 30 June 2026.
Weight: 2/3 · substantive · Draft put out for public consultation (comments until 30 June 2026).
Official introduction (original Hungarian): Társadalmi egyeztetés a gyorsfagyasztott élelmiszerek szabályairól
Draft: an agriculture minister's decree would end NÉBIH's licensing procedure for fruit propagating material imported from third countries, because the EU deadline for member state licensing has expired. From now on only propagating material from countries and categories recognised as equivalent in the European Commission's January 2026 decision could be imported. The importer would have to notify the authority in advance; comments could be sent until 30 June 2026.
Weight: 2/3 · substantive · Draft put out for public consultation (comments until 30 June 2026).
Official introduction (original Hungarian): Társadalmi egyeztetés a gyümölcs szaporítóanyagok szabályainak módosításáról
Draft: the defence minister would amend the decrees on the Ministry of Defence's housing support and housing allowance. The aim is for the rules to better reflect market conditions, support staff mobility and the further use of municipal flats the ministry cannot use. The specific changes are not clear from the available summary. The decree would enter into force on 1 August; comments could be sent until 30 June 2026.
Weight: 2/3 · substantive · Draft put out for public consultation (comments until 30 June 2026).
Official introduction (original Hungarian): Társadalmi egyeztetés a honvédségi lakhatástámogatás szabályainak módosításáról
Draft: the interior minister would amend the decree on law enforcement service posts. The pay of professional disaster management staff serving in the HUNOR national rescue organisation would be built into the professional allowance. For police and prison service training, it would give detailed rules on how to prove the staffing and material conditions of professional training; comments could be sent until 30 June 2026.
Weight: 2/3 · substantive · Draft put out for public consultation (comments until 30 June 2026).
Official introduction (original Hungarian): Társadalmi egyeztetés a rendvédelmi szolgálati beosztások szabályairól
Draft: an interior minister's decree would prescribe uniform provisions for law enforcement staff at major law enforcement events, regardless of their place of service. The extraordinary provision norm would only apply to the priority tasks listed in the decree. The employee side of the Interior Reconciliation Council found the increase in the food norm too small and proposed that a major event should count from four hours of service instead of six, but these were rejected for lack of funds; comments could be sent until 30 June 2026.
Weight: 2/3 · substantive · Draft put out for public consultation (comments until 30 June 2026).
Official introduction (original Hungarian): Társadalmi egyeztetés a rendvédelmi állomány egységes ellátásáról
Draft: the agriculture minister would raise the Hungarian Food Codex guideline on pickles to the level of legislation. It would separate the names of "sour" products made by natural fermentation and "pickled" products made with added acid. It would define mixed and gourmet pickles and the quality characteristics of gherkins and sauerkraut; comments could be sent until 30 June 2026.
Weight: 2/3 · substantive · Draft put out for public consultation (comments until 30 June 2026).
Official introduction (original Hungarian): Társadalmi egyeztetés a savanyúságokra vonatkozó élelmiszerkönyvi előírásokról
Draft: an education and children minister's decree would set the 2026/2027 school year calendar in vocational training. It would set the phases of the school year, breaks, exam periods and the dates for issuing certificates. The dates of admission, tenth-grade assessments, the matura exam and theme weeks would remain the same as in public education. The decree would enter into force on 1 September; comments could be sent until 30 June 2026.
Weight: 2/3 · substantive · Draft put out for public consultation (comments until 30 June 2026).
Official introduction (original Hungarian): Társadalmi egyeztetés a szakképzési tanév rendjéről
Draft: an agriculture minister's decree would tighten the fight against grapevine flavescence dorée. Control of the American grapevine leafhopper spreading the pathogen would be compulsory. The infection threshold above which the plantation must be destroyed would be lowered, and compensation could be claimed repeatedly during quarantine. State support for control would expand and be simplified, and support for replanting grubbed-up plantations would get priority; comments could be sent until 30 June 2026.
Weight: 2/3 · substantive · Draft put out for public consultation (comments until 30 June 2026).
Official introduction (original Hungarian): Társadalmi egyeztetés a szőlő aranyszínű sárgaság elleni szabályokról
Draft: because of the milk market crisis, an agriculture minister's decree would give enhanced interest subsidies. Dairy cattle farms would get a 100 percent interest subsidy in the MFB Agricultural Working Capital Loan Programme, and milk processors 70 percent in the MFB Food Industry Working Capital Loan Programme. The Hungarian State Treasury would also pass anonymised regional data to the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture for crop estimates; comments could be sent until 30 June 2026.
Weight: 2/3 · substantive · Draft put out for public consultation (comments until 30 June 2026).
Official introduction (original Hungarian): Társadalmi egyeztetés a tejágazati kamattámogatások bővítéséről
Draft: an act on the National Asset Recovery and Protection Office (NVVH), which would be set up to uncover past losses and abuses of public assets and to manage future risks. The Office would be independent, with its leaders elected by Parliament, its own budget and an annual public report. It could start public asset protection investigations even without suspicion of a crime, and for certain crimes could take over criminal proceedings and replace the prosecution service as public prosecutor. Three of its four vice-presidents would be prosecutors; comments could be sent until 30 June 2026.
Weight: 2/3 · partial · Draft put out for public consultation, containing only a review or a concept (comments until 30 June 2026).
Official introduction (original Hungarian): Társadalmi egyeztetés az NVVH létrehozásáról
Draft: an agriculture minister's decree would create the legal basis for EU compensation for 2025 drought damage, for which EUR 10.8 million comes from the agricultural crisis reserve. Drought-hit maize growers could expect a flat-rate payment of HUF 20,000–25,000 per hectare. Conditions are a certified yield loss of over 30 percent and submission of the 2026 single application. The decree would enter into force on the day after publication; comments could be sent until 30 June 2026.
Weight: 2/3 · substantive · Draft put out for public consultation (comments until 30 June 2026; largest amount named about HUF 4 billion).
Official introduction (original Hungarian): Társadalmi egyeztetés az aszálykárok kompenzációjáról a gazdák számára
Draft: under an agriculture minister's decree, only a product made biologically from agricultural raw material by double fermentation could be sold as "vinegar". A product made by diluting synthetic acetic acid could not bear the name vinegar. The decree would limit the amount of sugar that can be added and extend by one year the transitional period of the protein quality rules for meat products; comments could be sent until 30 June 2026.
Weight: 2/3 · substantive · Draft put out for public consultation (comments until 30 June 2026).
Official introduction (original Hungarian): Társadalmi egyeztetés az ecetre vonatkozó élelmiszerkönyvi előírásokról
Draft: a new agriculture minister's decree would set what qualifications the professional managers of food businesses need, depending on the size of the business. The rules would follow the new Register of Vocations and would also recognise new higher-level specialised qualifications, for example pálinka master, master brewer and chocolate, coffee and tea master; comments could be sent until 30 June 2026.
Weight: 2/3 · substantive · Draft put out for public consultation (comments until 30 June 2026).
Official introduction (original Hungarian): Társadalmi egyeztetés az élelmiszer-vállalkozások képesítési szabályairól
Draft: based on practical experience, the interior minister would clarify the fitness testing rules for professional staff of law enforcement bodies. According to the draft, after a rating of "unfit for professional service" a new admission fitness test could be taken at the earliest two years later. The employee side of the Interior Reconciliation Council disagreed, but the ministry rejected its proposal; comments could be sent until 30 June 2026.
Weight: 1/3 · Technical amendment; the substance of the rules does not change.
Official introduction (original Hungarian): Társadalmi egyeztetés a rendvédelmi állomány alkalmasságvizsgálatáról
Issue no. 75 of the Hungarian Gazette (Magyar Közlöny) for 2026 appeared on 22 June and contains one item. The issue publishes the consolidated text of the Fundamental Law in force on 20 June 2026. Each item is described separately on this page.
Weight: 1/3 · Gazette issue: the items in it are rated separately.