36 founded in 2007 and is granted for outstanding accomplishment, professional activities or career to those who have achieved or contributed to the achievement of extraordinary, exemplary results in the field of protecting human rights, in particular the rights of the child and other vulnerable groups, the rights of national minorities and the environment. The award can be granted to Hungarian and foreign nationals, religious and social organisations, or other communities. In 2019, the award was granted to Dr. Albin Juhász-Laczik OSB, Headmaster of the Benedictine High School of Pannonhalma, Head of the Child Protection Programme of Pannonhalma, to Dr. István Farkas, CoChair of the Association of Hungarian Nature Defenders, as well as ENNHRI General Assembly and Conference in Brussels – 13 November 2019 to the Association of National Self-Governments of the Nationalities. At the annual General Assembly of GANHRI in Geneva, Deputy Commissioner Dr. Gyula Bándi represented the Hungarian NHRI, accompanied by his expert staff. The Deputy Commissioner held discussions about the status “A” re-accreditation process. Furthermore, he presented and promoted the role and responsibilities of the “green ombudsman”, and he also introduced the Network of Institutions for Future Generations established by his predecessor, the coordination tasks of which are performed by the Secretariat of the Deputy Commissioner. Commissioner Dr. Ákos Kozma and Secretary General Dr. Réka The 2019 winners of the Justitia Regnorum Fundamentum Award with the Commissioner and his Deputies, 9 December 2019 Varga, accompanied by their expert staff, attended in November the General Assembly of the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI), as well as their annual conference in Brussels. The Commissioner held a discussion with the Secretary General of ENNHRI, as well as with the observer appointed to the 2.3. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS D ENNHRI Accreditation Committee, about the re-accreditation of uring his activities, the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights keeps close contact with the Hungarian and inter- national institutions involved in human rights protection, and he supports their efforts with policy statements, professional materials, and by holding consultation sessions if necessary. The summary of the Commissioner’s international relations in 2019 first deals with the relations and cooperation with the UN institutions and bodies, then the institutions of the Council of Europe and last, those of the European Union, following the structure of the international organisations involved in the protection of human rights. Activities pursued as a UN-accredited National Human Rights Institution The Commissioner UN-accredited for National Fundamental Human Rights Rights, gave the newly elected Hungarian Ombudsman the opportunity to introduce himself, as well as to initiate several bilateral relations. Commissioner Dr. Ákos Kozma was also received by European Ombudsman Ms. Emily O’Reilly in her Brussels office. The Office undertakes professional consultation roles in several working groups of ENNHRI; including, for instance, the CRPD Working Group dealing with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, i.e. CRPD, the Legal Working Group, as well as the SDG Working Group, which was established for the harmonisation of the activities performed for the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development as a Institution, is a member of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI), which works with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (the UN OHCHR), and which comprises and supports the National Human Rights Institutions. Furthermore, he takes part in the work of the European regional organisation of the network, i.e. the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI). the Hungarian National Human Rights Institution. The conference Goals and the enforcement of human rights. In 2019, the work performed in ENNHRI’s Legal Working Group focused on the monitoring of the practices of the European Court of Human Rights, the national-level implementation of judicial decisions, the possibilities of intervention with the court proceedings as a third party, as well as the effects of the prevention of terrorism on human rights. In ENNHRI’s CRPD Working Group, the inquiry methodology of the compendium interpreting Article 12 of CRPD was elaborated. REPORT ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE COMMISSIONER FOR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF HUNGARY AND HIS DEPUTIES – 2019