{"id":13479,"date":"2010-01-23T12:52:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T12:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/?p=13479"},"modified":"2018-11-13T10:14:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T09:14:00","slug":"request-process-in-hungary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/2010-01-23\/request-process-in-hungary\/","title":{"rendered":"Request Process in Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/cdn.knightlab.com\/libs\/timeline\/latest\/embed\/index.html?source=0AhLalyNZ3fdjdGVaRTdOaG1EWlpVY2JXN3NncFdtUVE&amp;font=Bevan-PotanoSans&amp;maptype=toner&amp;lang=en&amp;height=650\" width=\"100%\" height=\"650\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #238c3a;\">Summary: You Cannot Request Bulk Access, Only Access to Specific Records<\/span><\/h4>\n<div class=\"fusion-table table-1\">\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<thead><\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Request sent to<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Hungarian Ministry of Justice<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Outcome of request<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Information Refused.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Time taken to respond<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>2 working days (Deadline of 15 working days)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Reason for refusal<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Only need to answer requests for individual records.<br \/>\nAnother law overrides FOI law.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On 22 July 2013 the request was sent by Access Info&#8217;s partners in Hungary,\u00a0Tamas Bodoky and Ildi Kov\u00e1cs, to the <strong>Ministry of Public Administration and Justice<\/strong> (a copy of the request and the full correspondence with the Ministry can be found on the Hungarian request platform Atlatszo (<a href=\"http:\/\/kimittud.atlatszo.hu\/request\/ceginformacios-adatbazis\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/kimittud.atlatszo.hu\/request\/ceginformacios-adatbazis<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>On 24 July 2013 the <strong>request was denied<\/strong>. According to the justification, on the one hand, this is because certain pieces of the database are already available for free for everyone on the Register&#8217;s website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-cegjegyzek.hu\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.e-cegjegyzek.hu\/index.html<\/a>. On the other hand, according to the relevant legislation, it is not possible to ask for the entire database or a substantial part of it, because <strong>the legislation only allows for requests for specific files to be made.<\/strong> In its response, the Ministry argued that access to the whole database cannot be achieved by using Hungary&#8217;s Freedom of information legislation.<\/p>\n<p>On 13 September 2013 we decided to try another way. We sent a formal letter to the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice in which we asked for the exact amount that they would charge for access to the full register. The original idea was to request this in order to appeal against the specific amount being charged for access to the information. However, we never received a response to that follow-up request.<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #238c3a;\">Accessing the Hungarian Company Register<\/span><\/h4>\n<div class=\"fusion-table table-1\">\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<thead><\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Information available (for free)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>You can see the company\u2019s name, register number, where is it established, main activity, stock capital, fiscal ID, whether or not the company has gone\u00a0bankrupt or been affected by a liquidation process.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Provision for public access<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Company data in Hungary is handled by special courts, which are called company courts and which are located in the capital and every county. However, they do not provide for online access to company information. Instead, you must go there and ask for the information in person.<br \/>\nThe Ministry of Justice and Public Administration runs an online service, which provides company information for unofficial purposes for free on the website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-cegjegyzek.hu\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.e-cegjegyzek.hu\/index.html<\/a><br \/>\nThere is a charge for official copies of documents.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Cost per record<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Free as long as it is only used for informative instead of official purposes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Cost for whole database<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Cannot access full database.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #238c3a;\">Additional Information:<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hungary\u00b4s Right to Information (RTI) Rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rti-rating.org\/view_country?country_name=Hungary\" target=\"_blank\">(Click here)<\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hungary\u00b4s Act on Informational Self-Determination and Freedom of Information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.access-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hungary.pdf\">(Click here)<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span>Hungary&#8217;s company register <a href=\"https:\/\/www.companyregister.hu\/register\" target=\"_blank\">(Click here)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: You Cannot Request Bulk Access, Only Access to Specific Records Request sent to Hungarian Ministry of Justice Outcome of request Information Refused. Time taken to respond 2 working days (Deadline of 15 working days) Reason for refusal Only need to answer requests for individual records. Another law overrides FOI law. &nbsp; On 22 July 2013 the request was sent by Access Info&#8217;s partners in Hungary,\u00a0Tamas Bodoky and Ildi Kov\u00e1cs, to the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice (a copy of the request and the full correspondence with the Ministry can be found on the Hungarian request platform Atlatszo (http:\/\/kimittud.atlatszo.hu\/request\/ceginformacios-adatbazis).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13479"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18309,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13479\/revisions\/18309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}