Milestones of the Hungarian administrative (official) procedure

Abstract

In my article, I examine the development of the Hungarian public administration procedure from the emergence of the need for regulation to the creation of the administrative procedure of our time. The article primarily focuses on the circumstances leading to the creation of certain procedural rights, such as, the social and political environment in which the individual legislative amendments were issued, and the reasons that led to their complete replacement. Although the need for a uniform procedure has already appeared in the First World War, the law-making has not place real emphasis on the elaboration of a uniform administrative procedure law. The Act No. 20 of 1901 can be considered as the first procedural regulation and beyond that, general legal remedy system brought into line with public administrative procedures was also formed. The law, which has been in force for more than 25 years, was amended by the Act No. 30 of 1929 was replaced by an Act, but it has not represented a real change. Until 1956, the Hungarian legal development was not able to present comprehensive, summary administrative (state administration) procedural law regulations. The Act No. 4 of 1957 was a very important step in the Hungarian legal system. The creation of a law that has served the procedural system of the public administration for almost 50 years. The accelerated social and technological development justified the following procedure, the Act No. 140 of 2004 the creation of a law, which, however, did not fulfil the role of general regulation. The basic idea of the Act No. 150 of 2016 is that not all essential elements of the hundreds of procedural types can be recorded in a single law, therefore the idea of simplification played an important role in its creation. Its usability as a general code is questionable.