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 |
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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 |
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 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 |
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 |