A source-led starting point
This index brings together selected sources used in the Hungary guides. Some links lead to an individual law; others lead to an official collection, court or regulator. It is a research starting point, not an exhaustive or certified consolidation of every applicable rule.
Read the operative text with amendments, commencement, territorial application and authoritative language in view. A current website or search result does not itself establish that an older downloaded document remains the correct version.
Legislation, courts & regulators
Act L of 2025: enactment of emergency-decree provisions
Official National Legislation Database record; use the operative Hungarian text and commencement provisions.
Open the legal source ↗Arbitration Act, LX of 2017
Official English translation dated January 2021; consult current Hungarian amendments.
Open the legal source ↗Civil Code, Act V of 2013
Official National Legislation Database record; use the operative Hungarian text and commencement provisions.
Open the legal source ↗Code of Civil Procedure, Act CXXX of 2016
Ministry English translation dated September 2023; verify later amendments in the Hungarian text.
Open the legal source ↗Competition Act, LVII of 1996
Competition authority English translation from 2019; use the current Hungarian text for thresholds and procedure.
Open the legal source ↗Consumer Protection Act, CLV of 1997
Official National Legislation Database record; use the operative Hungarian text and commencement provisions.
Open the legal source ↗Criminal Code, Act C of 2012
Official English translation; the operative Hungarian version and subsequent changes must be verified.
Open the legal source ↗Electricity Act, LXXXVI of 2007
Official National Legislation Database record; use the operative Hungarian text and commencement provisions.
Open the legal source ↗EU and UN financial and asset restrictions, Act LII of 2017
Official National Legislation Database record; use the operative Hungarian text and commencement provisions.
Open the legal source ↗General Environmental Protection Act, LIII of 1995
Official National Legislation Database record; use the operative Hungarian text and commencement provisions.
Open the legal source ↗Housing and premises leases, Act LXXVIII of 1993
Official National Legislation Database record; use the operative Hungarian text and commencement provisions.
Open the legal source ↗Hungarian Architecture Act, C of 2023
Official National Legislation Database record; use the operative Hungarian text and commencement provisions.
Open the legal source ↗Hungarian Chamber of Civil Law Notaries: procedures
Professional public-body explanation of payment orders and succession proceedings.
Open the legal source ↗Hungarian insolvency law: European e-Justice
National information on Act XLIX of 1991 and distinctions between bankruptcy and liquidation.
Open the legal source ↗Hungarian National Bank: legislation
Regulator collection covering financial activities, supervision and related legal procedures.
Open the legal source ↗Hungary Cybersecurity Act, LXIX of 2024
Regulator materials for the current cybersecurity supervisory framework.
Open the legal source ↗Immigration authority: employers and host organisations
Official guidance under Act XC of 2023, including transitional issues.
Open the legal source ↗Intellectual-property legislation collection
Hungarian Intellectual Property Office collection of copyright and industrial-rights laws.
Open the legal source ↗Labour Code, Act I of 2012
Official National Legislation Database record; use the operative Hungarian text and commencement provisions.
Open the legal source ↗Land Registration Act, C of 2021
Official National Legislation Database record; use the operative Hungarian text and commencement provisions.
Open the legal source ↗Mediation Act, LV of 2002
Official National Legislation Database record; use the operative Hungarian text and commencement provisions.
Open the legal source ↗National Legislation Database
Official Hungarian legislation, version history, municipal decrees and selected translations.
Open the legal source ↗National Tax and Customs Administration: legal background
Official directory of tax, customs, administration and enforcement statutes.
Open the legal source ↗Privacy Act, CXII of 2011
NAIH publication of the domestic privacy legislation; translation dated March 2024.
Open the legal source ↗Public Procurement Act, CXLIII of 2015
Public Procurement Authority translation dated May 2021; use current national amendments for live procedures.
Open the legal source ↗UNCTAD: 2025 Hungarian investment-screening transition
Intergovernmental account of the special screening framework and its stated filing period through 2026.
Open the legal source ↗Using the sources
Identify the legal issue and relevant date, then check the current primary material and any procedural guidance. Record the version consulted and distinguish official text from translations or commentary.
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