Legal source(s)

• Act CIV of 2010 on the Freedom of the Press and the Fundamental Rules of Media Content (2010. évi CIV. törvény a sajtószabadságról és a médiatartalmak alapvető szabályairól)
• Act CLXXXV of 2010 on Media Services and Mass Media (2010. évi CLXXXV. törvény a médiaszolgáltatásokról és a tömegkommunikációról)
• Act CVIII of 2001 on Electronic Commerce and on Information Society Services (2001. évi CVIII. törvény az elektronikus kereskedelmi szolgáltatások, valamint az információs társadalommal összefüggő szolgáltatások egyes kérdéseiről)
• Act C of 2003 on Electronic Communications (2003. évi C. törvény az elektronikus hírközlésről)
• Directive 2010/13/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of10 March 2010on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the provision of audiovisual media services
• Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of8 June 2000on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the internal market
• Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on a single market for digital services and amending Directive 2000/31/EC

Human rights capacity support

Functions

• Oversight
• Performing promotional activities
• Other

Specific mandates

• Rights of the child
• Any other function under international human rights conventions, under EU legislation or under the national legal system

Structured cooperation with partners at national level

• Submits a report to parliament by 31 May of each year on its work in the previous year.
• The co-regulatory system of the Act on Media Services and Mass Media enables the participation of civil-society actors and professional self-regulatory organisations in the process of media administration law enforcement and in the application of the law.

Structured cooperation with partners at international and EU level

• Member of the European Platform of Regulatory Authorities and the European Board for Media Services.
• The NMIA’s professional knowledge and experience are also used in the formulation of Hungary’s position in the Audiovisual and Media Working Party of the Council of the European Union.