Magyar Közlöny (MK)
Hungarian Official Journal
CEO: Mr Balázs Sándor NÉMETH, contact: nemeth.balazs@mhk.hu
Published by: Igazságügyi Minisztérium
Ministry of Justice
1051 Budapest, Nádor utca 22.
Hungary
Postal address:
1357 Budapest, Pf.: 2
Hungary
Tel. +3617951000
Fax +3615503947
E-mail of the customer service: tarsadalmikapcsolatok@im.gov.hu
Phone of the customer service: +3617958333
Website: https://kormany.hu/igazsagugyi-miniszterium/elerhetosegek
Official journal / legal gazette
In Hungary there is only one official journal, which is divided into an official section containing legislation (legal gazette) and a supplement with legal notices and other official texts (official gazette); see point 1.2 for details.
First edition
8 June 1848, original title: Közlöny (Gazette)
First online edition
2001
Paper edition
Magyar Közlöny
A non-authentic print edition is made available through Magyar Közlöny Lap- és Könyvkiadó (Hungarian Official Journal publisher — http://www.mhk.hu) Price
HUF 151 452 (EUR 543.90)/
year (spring 2009)
Online edition
http://magyarkozlony.hu Available texts
PDF from July 2008 Access and price
Free Legally binding
Since 1 July 2008
Part IV: Decrees of the President of the Hungarian National Bank
Part V: Decrees of members of government
Part VI: Decisions and orders of the Constitutional Court
Part VII: Decisions of the Supreme Court
Part VIII: Commitments of the National Election Committee
Part IX: Collection of decisions In annex: Hivatalos Értesítő (The Gazette of Official Announcements)
Part I: Legal acts in ‘compiled structure’
Part II: Statistical announcements
Part III: Orders and directives
Part IV: Commitments
Part V: Personnel announcements
Part VI. Founding documents
Part VII: Calls for tenders
Part VIII: Communiqués
Part IX: Announcements (monitoring of the Commercial Register, the Gazette for Public Procurements, the Gazette of Courts’ Decisions, the Official Journal of the European Union)
Legal basis
The legal basis for the publication of legislation is Act 11/1987 on legislation, the Government Decree 29/2008 of the Prime Minister’s Office and the Act 90/2005 on freedom of electronic information.
Legally binding
Since 1 July 2008 the online edition has been the only legally binding and authentic version.
Financing
The technical costs of the online publication are financed from the state budget; all other costs are financed by the state-owned Magyar Közlöny Lap- és Könyvkiadó (Hungarian Official Journal publisher — http:// www.mhk.hu).
Other gazettes
Official notices and other legal announcements are contained, since 1998, in the supplement to the Official Journal (see above).
Other official thematic gazettes are published by state offices
In PDF format and in PDF with digital signature and time stamp.
A non-official online edition of the Magyar Közlöny is also available: http://www.magyarkozlony.hu (in ASCII from 1990, PDF from 2000, HTML from 1998, XML from 2002, others from 1996).
Authenticity
The integrity of the workflow and the authenticity of the (electronically) published text are guaranteed through a process based on the SHA-512 algorithm.
Archiving
There is no explicit legal provision for archiving. According to Act 90/2005, the electronic edition of legislation cannot be deleted from the web page once it has been published.
Since 2001 the official journals have been archived online (http://www.magyarkozlony.hu).
Igazságügyi Minisztérium
Ministry of Justice For contact details, see point 1.1
Form and nature
Governmental organ
Basic tasks
Pre-press: no
Printing: no
Dissemination/distribution: no
Legal gazette online: yes
Legislation database: yes
Consolidation: yes
Other services offered
The staff of the Ministry of Justice and the editorial staff of Magyar Közlöny Lap- és Könyvkiadó (see point 1.4) proofread and edit the texts as well as the final preview of the master copy.
The relevant ministry drafts the text for primary and secondary legislation in Microsoft Word, Adobe Reader and/or Ventura.
The same systems are used for primary and secondary (delegated) legislation.
RTF files are used and then converted into PDF.
Workflow
There is a single electronic workflow system for drafting, adopting and publishing.
Publishing
The staff of the Prime Minister’s Office and the editorial staff of Magyar Közlöny Lap- és Könyvkiadó (see point 1.4) proofread and edit the texts as well as the final preview of the master copy.
The non-official paper and the electronic editions are derived from the same file (in the case of huge volumes, CDs containing part of the texts are annexed to the paper editions).
