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A delegation of the LIBE Committee [Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs] of the European Parliament visited the Curia of Hungary (“Curia”) on 30 September 2021, in the morning.

Placing great emphasis on the professional preparation of the courtesy visit of the delegation, the Curia devoted almost a week to preparatory works so that the delegation can be provided with sufficient information on the issues identified in advance as being of interest for the delegation.

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.