Hungary

This section offers a summary of the main legislation on transitional justice adopted by the member state and, when available, a pdf with the document, together with the main decisions of national and international tribunals in relation to these measures. This is a non exhaustive list and will be updated and completed in a permanent basis. We also offer images of the museums that deal with memory issues in each EU country.

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Legislation

 

Main provisions

Year

Act on the remedy of convictions related to the uprising of 1956 (see text here)

1989

Act creating the Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution

1989

Act on invalidating the illegal convictions between 1945 and 1963 (see text here)

1990

Act XXV on compensation for economic injustices under communism (see text here)

1991

Act XXXII on Settlement of Ownership of Former Real Properties of the Churches (see text here)

1991

Act on invalidating of convictions for certain crimes against the state and public order between 1963 and 1989 (see text here)

1992

Act XXIV compensation for unjust damages inflicted by the State to the property of citizens as a result of enforcing legal provisions created between 1 May 1939 and 8 June 1949 (see text here)

1992

Act XXIII of 8 March 1994 on Screening of Holders of Some Important Positions, Holders of Positions of Public Trust and Opinion-Leading Public Figures and on the History Office (see text here)

1994

Law XXIX on compensations to the relatives of those deceased persons whose death penalty was enforced on the basis of an unlawful judgment of the Hungarian Court (see text here) 1997

Act XCIII on access to files of the Communist secret services to victims and researchers (see text here)

2000

Act CXXX of 2000 on invalidating convictions in connections with the repression following the 1956 revolution (see text here) 2000

Act III of January 2003 on the Disclosure of the Secret Service Activities of the Communist Regime and on the Establishment of the State Security Historical Archive (see text here)

2003

Act XLVII on the rights of the relatives of those who lost their life between 1939 and 1989 due to politically motivated action of the Hungarian authorities, or during deportation or Soviet-ordered forced labor to apply for compensations (see text here) 2006