Hungary plans e-database of legal docs

The Government of Hungary will publish its official journal on the governmental portal in order to promote the availability of legal texts and regulations for everyone.

The official journal of Hungary contains the legal regulations, international contracts, decisions and legal directives of the Parliament and the government, as well as the principles and theoretical decisions of the Supreme Court and the decisions made in personal matters, reports ePractice.

The present law states that the electronic versions will be considered as an information source complementing the authentic paper-based solutions.

The government would maintain the two forms of publication—both online and paper—in case of any amendments made by the Prime Minister’s Office, but the electronic version would become the only authentic source in the future.

Besides easier and quicker to be spread, the online source will be much reasonable as Internet access is much higher than the number of shops selling the printed version of the official journal.

The official journal would become a unified official journal since the ministry announcements published in the official journals of the ministries so far would be published there too.