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Annex 4 – Full text of the Ombudsman Act
Act CXI of 2011
on the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights137
In the interest of ensuring the effective, coherent and most comprehensive protection of
fundamental rights and in order to implement the Fundamental Law, Parliament hereby adopts
the following Act pursuant to paragraph (5) of Article 30 of the Fundamental Law:
Chapter I
General provisions
1. The tasks and competences of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights and of his/her
Deputies
Section 1138 – The Commissioner for Fundamental Rights shall–in addition to his/her tasks
and competences specified in the Fundamental Law–perform the tasks and exercise the
competences laid down in this Act.
(2) In the course of his/her activities the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights shall pay
special attention, especially by conducting proceedings ex officio, to the protection of
a) the rights of the child,
b) the values determined in Article P of the Fundamental Law (hereinafter referred to as “the
interests of future generations”),
c) the rights determined in Article XXIX of the Fundamental Law (hereinafter referred to as
“the rights of nationalities living in Hungary”), and
d) the rights of the most vulnerable social groups.
(3)139 In the course of his/her activities the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights shall–
especially by conducting proceedings ex officio–pay special attention to assisting, protecting and
supervising the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,
promulgated by Act XCII of 2007.
Section 2 – (1)140 The Commissioner for Fundamental Rights shall survey and analyze the
situation of fundamental rights in Hungary, and shall prepare statistics on those infringements of
rights in Hungary which are related to fundamental rights. At the request of the Commissioner
for Fundamental Rights the public administration organ monitoring the enforcement of the
requirement of equal treatment, the National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of
Information, the Independent Police Complaints Body and the Commissioner for Educational
Rights shall supply aggregate data not containing personal data for the purpose of statistical
reports.
(2) The Commissioner for Fundamental Rights shall give an opinion on the draft legal rules
affecting his/her tasks and competences, on long term development and spatial planning plans
and concepts, and on plans and concepts otherwise directly affecting the quality of life of future
generations, and may make proposals for the amendment or making of legal rules affecting
fundamental rights and/or the expression of consent to be bound by an international treaty.
Promulgated on July 26, 2011
Shall enter into force with the text specified in Section 6, Subsection (1) of Act CXLIII of 2011
139 Shall enter into force with the text specified in Section 6, Subsection (2) of Act CXLIII of 2011
140 Amended by Section 1 of Act CLXXXVI of 2012 and Section 22, Subsection (6) of Act CLXXXIII of 2013
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