New Data Protection Law in Hungary: Binding Corporate Rules and ’ad hoc’ contractual arrangements omitted from the list of adequacy instruments

Post published:2011/09/12
Post category:Hungary

The Hungarian Parliament has adopted the Act No CXII of 2011 on Informational Self-Determination and Freedom of Information (the new Data Protection Act of 2011), the domestic implementation of the European Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC) which will enter into force by 1 January 2012. The new Act will replace the Act LXIII of 1992 on the Protection of Personal Data and Public Access to Data of Public Interest (the Data Protection Act of 1992). The new legislation introduces significant changes, as it establishes a stronger DPA with administrative powers and provides a “balance of interest clause” which was completely missing from the Data Protection Act of 1992.

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New Data Protection Act Adopted by the Hungarian Parliament

Post published:2011/07/11
Post category:Hungary

The Hungarian Parliament has adopted today the Act on Informational Self-Determination and Freedom of Information (the new Data Protection Act), the domestic implementation of the European Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC). The new Act will enter into force by 1 January 2012 and same will replace the Act LXIII of 1992 on the Protection of Personal Data and Public Access to Data of Public Interest.

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New Cookie Law: Browser Settings Do Imply Consent in Hungary – Updated

Post published:2011/07/11
Post category:Hungary

The bill on the amendment of the Act Nr C. of 2003 on electronic communications, the transposition of Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive 2009/136/EC has been adopted today by the Hungarian Parliament.

As reported earlier, the draft bill submitted to the Parliament – similarly to the position of the UK, Ireland, Latvia, the Netherlands and Sweden – originally required prior consent to the storage of cookies in the users’ terminal equipment. However, during the debate of the bill in the Parliament, the Parliament Committee for Economics and Informatics has submitted an amending proposal to the bill on 29 June 2011, which has altered the language of the cookie consent rule in the draft and eliminated the requirement for the consent to be “prior”.

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