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Conference on the role of environmental law in transitions to sustainability

Dr. Péter Darák, President of the Curia of Hungary, attended the annual conference of the European Environmental Law Forum in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on 28-30 August 2019.

The conference addressed the issues of circular economy, climate change, water resource management, sustainable biodiversity and facilitating access to courts to improve the enforcement of sustainability.

Budapest, the 16th of September 2019

Press Secretariat of the Curia of Hungary

Ship collision on the Danube: No bail can be allowed where the conditions of placement under criminal supervision are not met

Information on the judgment given by the Curia of Hungary in case no. Bt.III.750/2019/21: In the criminal proceedings instituted for the misdemeanour offence of endangering waterborne transport causing a fatal mass disaster, at its public session of 29 July 2019 the Curia of Hungary determined the Chief Public Prosecutor’s remedy motion filed for the protection of legality and found that the bail-related provisions of order no. 42.Bny.1646/2019/2 of the Buda Central Districts Court and order no.

Public session to be held by the Curia of Hungary on the criminal case related to the ship collision on the Danube

Pursuant to a motion for remedy filed by the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, the lawfulness of the placement of the Viking Sigyn ship captain under criminal supervision (case no. Bt. 750/2019) will be examined by the Curia of Hungary in a public session to be held on 29 July 2019 at 9.00 am (address: 1055 Budapest, Markó utca 16.). At the session a decision is expected to be given on the issue.

The Curia’s consultative bodies: important means of assistance for judges dealing with individual cases

The Curia’s consultative body examining foreign exchange loan contracts does not deal with individual cases and does not serve as a means for the unification of the courts’ case-law, but rather adopts resolutions – told the spokesperson of the Civil Department of the Curia of Hungary in an interview given to the Hungarian radio station InfoRádió on 11 July 2019. In the radio’s legal programme entitled Paragrafus (the Hungarian equivalent of the term paragraph), Dr.

There is a need to strengthen professional dialogue between European courts – a tax law seminar was co-organised by the Curia of Hungary and the Federal Finance Court of Germany

A joint seminar was held by the Curia of Hungary and the Federal Finance Court of Germany on 9-10 July 2019 in Budapest. The event aimed at discussing tax law issues of mutual interest for both courts.

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