The Development of Complaint and Public Interest Disclosure Regulation in Hungary
The Development of Complaint and Public Interest Disclosure Regulation in Hungary

Summary/Abstract: In this study, I aimed to provide a legal historical overview of the right to petition and the right to public interest disclosure in Hungary. My goals were to cover a large period of time and to offer sufficient detail. After reviewing the curiosities of the distant past, I demonstrated that, during the period of dualism and at the beginning of the socialist era, complaints were understood to be a form of legal remedy within existing legal procedures; subsidiary complaints falling outside of other procedure were introduced by the old Complaints Law. Though this legislation would not be appropriately harmonised with constitutional rights after the democratic transition, among its merits we may list its comprehensive nature vis-a-vis all previous efforts, the suitable separation of complaints and public interest disclosures, and the generalisation of the right to their submission. The effective Complaints Law’s 2013 creation provided a viable and compromise-driven solution, although, the new EU directive may raise the necessity of rethinking the rules once again.

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