Amendment Of Communication And Media Related Acts Takes Effect Today

The Hungarian Parliament adopted the Act on "amendment of certain acts related to electronic communications" on 11 July 2011, with most of the changes detailed below becoming effective today, on 3 August 2011.  Changes affecting subscriber relations that require amendments to the service provider's standard terms and conditions, or developments and investments on behalf of service providers, will be implemented only after 1 November 2011 and 1 February 2012 respectively.

The main purpose of the act is to implement the amended EU telecom regulatory framework (NRF) into Hungarian law, however, the process was also used to incorporate experience collected by the communications authority and case law in relation to customer relationships, reallocate regulatory competencies between the Ministry of National Development ("Ministry") and the National Media and Communications Authority ("NMHH") and correct certain defects in the Media Act.