Act XXXIV of 2019 on the amendments necessary for the implementation of the European Union reform on data protection (1/2019)

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2019

Osservatorio sulle fonti / Observatory on Sources of Law

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Section: Sources of Law in the EU member States

HUNGARY

By Viktor Zoltán Kazai, Central European University, Budapest

Name of the Act/s


Act XXXIV of 2019 on the amendments necessary for the implementation of the European Union reform on data protection /
2019. évi XXXIV. törvény az Európai Unió adatvédelmi reformjának végrehajtása érdekében szükséges törvénymódosításokról

Date of entry into force of original text

26 April 2019

Date of Text (Adopted)

1 April 2019

Type of text

(name in English / name in the official language)

parliamentary act / törvény

If federal State

If Regional State

Enacted by

Hungarian National Assembly

Reference to the Constitution (art)

Article I (3) (fundamental rights limitation test)

Article 43 (4) (State Audit Office, qualified majority requirement)

Article XXXI (5)-(6) (rights and obligations related to citizenship, qualified majority requirement)

Article XXIX (3) (rights of national minorities, qualified majority requirement)

Article 31 (3) (local governments, qualified majority requirement)

Article 4. (2) and (5) (status, rights and obligations on Members of the National Assembly, qualified majority requirement)

Article 5 (7) (standing order of the National Assembly, qualified majority requirement)

Article 2 (2) (election of Members of the National Assembly, qualified majority requirements)

Subject area

data protection

If the act implements a source of EU Law: cite the relevant EU legal source

Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation)

Comment

To comply with the requirements stemming from the General Data Protection Regulation the Hungarian legislator already amended Act no CXII of 2011 on the Right of Informational Self-Determination and on Freedom of Information. The aim of the present act is to guarantee the consistency between Act no CXII of 2011 and the relevant provisions of other acts related to data protection.

Secondary sources/ doctrinal works (if any)

Short summary of the implementation of the GDPR in Hungary compiled by Baker and McKenzie, 19 July 2018, https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=3e045c27-67c6-43a5-a5e8-a0a30a07612b

Szabó, Endre: Az adatvédelmi tisztviselőről: a GDPR szabályainak elemzése, Infokommunikáció és jog, Vol. 15, Issue 70 (2018), pp. 3-10

Józan, Flóra : Gondolatok az adatvédelmi tisztviselőről, JURA, Vol. 24, Issue 2 (2018), pp. 394-413

Available Text

http://njt.hu/cgi_bin/njt_doc.cgi?docid=213705.367038