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On 4 November 2020, the Media Council of the National Media and Infocommunications Authority published a call for tenders for the community use of Budapest 92.9 MHz radio media service with local coverage. Three tenders were submitted in response to the call for tenders, including the plaintiff's tender, which was submitted under the permanent name of 'Klubrádió'. In its decision of 10 March 2021, which subsequently was challenged before the court, the respondent found that the plaintiff's tender was invalid in form and substance, and the tendering process was unsuccessful.

On the invitation of Mr Robert Spano, President of the European Court of Human Rights, Dr. András Zs. Varga, President of the Curia of Hungary and Dr. Tamás Sulyok, President of the Constitutional Court of Hungary attended the solemn opening of the judicial year of the European Court of Human Rights and the international conference on The Rule of Law and Justice in the Digital Age, organised on the occasion of the solemn opening of the judicial year in Strasbourg on 10September 2021.

The online discussion covered the Curia’s existing experiences in relation to its several-year long jurisprudence-uniformization activities. In this context, the Venice Commission’s questions focused on the Curia’s uniformity complaint panels and jurisprudence-uniformization tasks as well as on the selection of the members of the Curia’s five-member judicial panels and the operation thereof.

The Report would raise serious concerns if it had any basis. In order to clarify the inaccuracies in the text, the Kúria of Hungary attaches the following comments to Chapter I of the Report.

Prof. Dr. András Zs. Varga, the President of the Curia of Hungary participated, as the Venice Commission’s Hungarian member, at the 127th Plenary Session of the Venice Commission held on 1-3 July 2021 in Venice, Italy.

At the Friday, 2 July sitting of the Plenary Session, the President of the Curia of Hungary bestowed the Amicus Curiae medal and diploma on Mr. Gianni Buquicchio, the outgoing President of the Venice Commission.