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ACCC/C/2014/105 Hungary

Case status: Findings adopted on 26.07.2021 – Non-compliance found.
Follow-up: On-going; see Decision VII/8h.
Topics: Definitions; Access to environmental information; Access to justice.
Articles alleged: 3 (1); 4 (2), 4 (3) (c); 5 (7); 7.
Articles considered by the Committee: 2 (2), 2 (3); 3(1); 4 (1)–(4), 4 (7); 5 (7); 7; 9 (4).
Articles, if any, found in non-compliance: 5 (7) (a); 7.
Summary: On 11 June 2014, non-governmental organizations Hungarian Greenpeace Association and Energiaklub Climate Policy Institute and Applied Communications submitted a communication to the Compliance Committee alleging the failure of Hungary to comply with articles 3 (1), 4 (2) and (3) (c), 5 (7) and 7 of the Convention in connection with plans to build new units at Paks nuclear power plant.

Document Status   Date received or
posted by the secretariat
Preliminary determination on admissibility    
Communication
Annex 1: The 1992 Data Protection Act (Act LXIII of 1992 on the Protection of Personal Data and the Disclosure of Information of Public interest)
Annexes 2-3: Relevant articles of the State Property Act (Act CVI of 2007 on State Property)
Annex 4: Relevant paragraphs of the State Finances Act (Act XXXVII of 1992 on Public Finances)
Annexes 5-6: The 2008 and 2009 parliamentary resolutions (decisions)
Annex 7: Correspondence regarding information requests concerning the Teller and Lévai projects (correspondence under Point 2)
Annex 8: Judgment No. 65.P. 21.120/2011./10 of the Metropolitan Court (Capitol City Court sentence)
Annex 9: Correspondence regarding information requests concerning the Governmental Commission on Nuclear Energy (correspondence under Point 3)
Annex 10: The 2011 Freedom of Information Act (Act CXII of 2011 on Informational Self-Determination and Freedom of Information)
Annex 11: Relevant paragraph of the  Central Administration Bodies Act (Act XLIII of 2010 on the Central Administrative Bodies and on the Legal Status of Ministers and State Secretaries)
Annex 12: The Environmental Code (Act LIII of 1995 on the General Rules of Environmental Protection)
From the communicant 11.06.2014
Letter to the Party concerned forwarding communication From the secretariat 15.09.2014
Letter to communicant enclosing questions of the Committee From the secretariat 15.09.2014
Reply to Committee's questions
Annex
From the communicant 23.09.2014

Response to communication
Annex

From the Party concerned 23.03.2015
Invitation to the Party concerned and the communicant to attend discussion at the Committee's 50th meeting  From the secretariat 1.09.2015
Statement during discussion at Committee's 50th meeting From observer (Greenpeace Central and Eastern Europe) 09.10.2015
Letter to the parties enclosing Committee's questions following hearing at CC50 From the secretariat 03.02.2016
Email regarding communicant's request for extension From the secretariat 17.02.2016
Email regarding request for extension From the Party concerned 19.02.2016
Reply to Committee's questions From the Party concerned 09.03.2016
Cover letter enclosing reply to Committee's questions
Annex: List of contracts (published documents are marked in green colour, the missing information is marked in red colour)
From the communicant 09.03.2016
Comments  on the Party concerned's  response to Committee's questions From the communicant 24.03.2016
Comments on the communicant’s response to Committee's questions From the Party concerned 21.04.2016
Letter to the Party concerned enclosing questions from the Committee From the secretariat 05.11.2016

Reply to Committee's questions

Annex 1: Parliamentary Decision No. 40/2008 of 17 April 2008 on the energy policy (2008-2020)
Annex 2: List of NGOs and others

Annex 3: Public comments

From the Party concerned 29.11.2016
Comments on Party concerned's reply to questions From the communicant 03.12.2016

Comments on communicant's comments

Annex 1: National Environmental Council invitation
Annex 2: National Environmental Council work programme

From the Party concerned 12.12.2016
Letter to the Party concerned and the communicant enclosing questions from the Committee From the secretariat 11.03.2021
Reply to Committee's questions no. 5 and 6 From the Party concerned 07.04.2021
Reply to Committee’s questions From the communicant 12.04.2021 (dated 09.04.2021)
Reply to Committee’s questions
Annex 1: Environmental Assessment, 05.06.2007 HUN
Annex 2: Excerpt of Environmental Assessment (Annex 1) ENG 
Annex 3a: Email from non-governmental organisation Magyar Természetvédők Szövetsége, 13.07.2007 HUN and ENG
Annex 3b: Background paper supporting the Parliamentary Resolution on energy policy, June 2007 HUN
Annex 3c: Comments of the organisation Magyar Természetvédők Szövetsége on Hungary’s energy policy 2007 -2020  HUN
Annex 4: Request from DGAP, 16.08.2007 HUN and ENG
Annex 5: Ministry’s webpage 2007 HUN and ENG
Annex 6: Minutes of the Meeting of the Committee on Economy and IT negotiating the energy policy HUN
Annex 7: Translation of the oral comments of the civil organisations in Annex 6 ENG
Annex 8: Parliament’s resolution no. 40/2008 on the energy policy for the period 2008-2020, 17.04.2008  ENG
From the Party concerned 07.05.2021
Draft findings and letters to the Party concerned and communicant inviting their comments From the secretariat 14.06.2021
Comments on the Committee’s draft findings From the Party concerned 23.07.2021 (dated 22.07.2021)
Comments on the Committee’s draft findings From the communicant, Energiaklub 24.07.2021
Findings ENG FRE RUS   26.07.2021