Public Procurement Authority

1. For purposes of enforcing the objectives set out in this Act, a Public Procurement Authority (hereinafter referred to as ’Authority‘) shall operate, as subordinated to Parliament only.

2. The Authority is a central budgetary organ operating as an autonomous state administration organ subordinated to Parliament, with general competence within its scope of responsibilities as laid down in this Act, it has jurisdiction over the entire territory of Hungary. Its seat shall be in Budapest.

3. The Authority‘s budget shall be planned as a specific budget title under budget heading ‘National Assembly’ of the Act on the central budget. Any regroupings against this appropriation for the Authority during the year shall be subject to approval by Parliament.

4. Within the framework of the Authority, a Council shall operate (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Council’) as well as the Public Procurement Arbitration Board (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Arbitration Board).

5. The provisions of Act CVII of 2019 on Bodies with a Special Legal Status and the Legal Standing of their Employees (hereinafter referred to as SLSA) shall, with the derogations set out in this Act, apply to the legal relation of the employees of the Authority

1. The president of the Authority shall

a) represent the Authority and the Council;

b) if invited, attend sessions of Parliament and of its committees, and present the Authority‘s annual report;

c) issue a president‘s briefing on practical information related to procurement procedures;

d) initiate a direct voting, in periods between council sessions, in accordance with the provisions of the organisational and operational regulations of the Authority, in order to make decisions on matters falling within the Authority’s competence and allowing of no delay;

e) exercise employer‘s rights over the secretary-general of the Authority (hereinafter referred to as ’secretary-general‘), the employees of the Secretariat of the Authority and the Chairperson, deputy Chairperson and public procurement commissioners of the Arbitration Board, and is entitled to specify the classification categories of the posts in a regulation;

f) perform other responsibilities designated to it by law.

2. The Vice-President of the Council shall have full powers to substitute for the President of the Authority in regard to the representation of the Council and chairing its sessions, in the absence of the latter.

1. The Council shall decide on the appointment of the President of the Authority for five years with a two-thirds majority of members present.

2. SLSA shall be applicable to the President of the Authority with the derogations set out in this Act.

3. The President of the Authority shall be entitled to a monthly salary which shall be 80% of the monthly wage stipulated in Article 149(1) of Act CXXXIX of 2013 on the National Bank of Hungary. In addition to the salary, the President of the Authority shall be entitled to the benefit as due to ministers.

4. The Council shall exercise employer rights over the President of the Authority, and the President shall make the statement of his incompatibility to the Council.

5. The Council shall elect the Vice-President of the Council for five years from among the members with a two-third majority of the members present.

6. The term of office of the President, the Vice-President of the Council and members of the Council shall end in the event of

a) the expiry of the term;

b) recalling;

c) resignation;

d) the occurrence of circumstances as set out in Article 182(8);

e) becoming undeserving or permanently unsuitable for the office;

f) death;

g) establishment of incompatibility.

7. In cases within the meaning of paragraph 6 (e) and (g) the Council shall state the termination of the term of office with the vote of two thirds of the members present and with attention to the opinion of the bodies or persons designating the person in question.

8. In case the Authority does not decide on the appointment of the new president of the Council until the expiry of the term of office of the president, the term of office of the president shall extend until the end of the calendar year.

9. The personal files of the President shall be managed and, for the President, the data stipulated in Article 68 of SLSA shall be registered, furthermore, the administrative duties related to the employment relation of the President shall be performed by the secretary-general.

10. The President of the Authority shall be entitled in every calendar year to go on a senior compensatory leave the time period whereof is stipulated in the regulations of the Authority.

1. The Council shall consist of seventeen members. The members of the Council represent the various public interest objectives, contracting authorities and tenderers.

2. The enforcement of the principles of this Act, specific objectives in the public interest, the interests of contracting authorities and of tenderers shall be the responsibility of the following persons in the Council:

a) the person designated by the minister responsible for the macroeconomic underpinning of the budget;

b) the person designated by the minister responsible for public procurement;

c) the person designated jointly by the Minister competent in construction regulations and the affairs of the construction authority and the Minister competent in construction economy;

d) the person designated by the Minister competent in public funds;

e) the President of the Hungarian Competition Authority or the person designated by him;

f) the President of the Government Control Office or the person designated by him;

g) the person designated jointly by the national associations of local governments;

h) the three persons designated by the national employers‘ interest representation bodies and the national economic chambers, including the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture, Food Economy and Rural Development;

i) the person designated jointly by the Hungarian Chamber of Engineers and the Chamber of Hungarian Architects;

j) the person designated by the professional body of public procurement consultants;

k) the person designated by the Minister competent in innovation;

l) the President of the State Audit Office or the person designated by the President;

m) the President of the National Tax and Customs Administration or the person designated by the President, and

n) the President of the Integrity Authority or the person designated by the President.

3. The president of the Council is the president of the Authority.

4. The president of the Council shall become a member of the Council even if he was not designated from among the members. Where the president of the Council was selected from among members of the Council, the president shall discontinue representing the general objectives or interests of the person designating him, and the person designating him shall be entitled to designate a new member to the Council. The designating person shall not exercise against the president of the Council their right as laid down in Article 181(6)(b) and (7).

5. interests he represents, and also the objectives of this Act, as well as the enforcement of these in the field of public procurement.

6. The President, the Vice-president and the members of the Council shall make a declaration of property within thirty days after their designation. The rules pertaining to the declaration of property for Members of Parliament shall be applied accordingly, with the exceptions specified in this Act.

7. If the president, the vice-president or the member of the Council refuse their obligation to make a declaration of property, neglect to fulfil their obligation or declare false data, fact in their declaration of property, their term of office shall be terminated due to incompatibility.

8. The following persons shall not be eligible for membership in the Council:

a) members of Parliament, spokespersons of nationalities;

b) have previous convictions under criminal law.

9. The term of office of members shall be two years at most.

10. The rules, except as laid down in paragraphs 7-9, for designating and recalling members shall be set by the designating bodies in such a way as to guarantee the sustained operability of the Council.

11. Members shall be required to perform their designated tasks in person.

The Council shall

a) establish the headcount of the Public Procurement Arbitration Board;

b) appoint or recall the Chairperson and deputy Chairperson of the Public Procurement Arbitration Board and the public procurement commissioners; judge cases of incompatibility related to public procurement commissioners;

c) consulting with the minister competent in public procurements and, where appropriate, in collaboration with the national economic chambers and other trade organisations, prepare guidelines with the aim of facilitating the application of the regulations applicable to public procurements based on the experiences acquired from the decisions of review procedures and the control of public contracts in practice and concerning practical information on public procurement (in particular on the issues provided for in this Act);

d) perform other responsibilities designated to it by law.

1. The Council shall convene its sessions as required, but at least on four occasions every year.

2. The Council shall have a quorum if two thirds of its members are present.

3. The Council shall make decisions with a simple majority vote, with the exceptions within the meaning of this Act.

4. Members of the Council who are relatives living in the same household as the persons affected in the matter may not participate in the preparation and passing of the decision of the Council on the subject of Article 183(b).

5. Members of the Council shall be required to notify to the president if they are or have become subject to reasons for incompatibility within the meaning of paragraph 4 and shall be required to discontinue their participation in the ongoing procedure.

1. The coordination of the activities of the Authority and the Council, the preparation and implementation of its decisions, and the data collection, recording and administration activities required for the same, including the coordination of activities performed by the Council, shall be the responsibility of the Authority‘s Secretariat. The Secretariat shall be headed by the secretary-general.

2. The secretary-general and employees of the Secretariat shall be in a civil servant relationship or employment relationship with the Authority, for which this Act, SLSA or the Act on the Labour Code shall apply. The monthly salary of the secretary-general shall be 60% of the monthly salary of the President of the Authority. The secretary-general is also entitled to other benefits as due to the state secretary.

3. The secretary-general shall be entitled in every calendar year to go on a senior compensatory leave the time period whereof is stipulated in the regulations of the Authority.

The President of the Authority, the vice-president of the Council and members of the Council, the secretary-general, the employees of the Secretariat and the public procurement commissioners or persons having held such positions or conducted such activities, shall handle as confidential all qualified data and business secrets disclosed to them in the course of discharging their responsibilities.

1. The Authority shall be responsible for effectively contributing to framing the public procurement policy and for forming and spreading the lawful public procurement behaviour enhancing the public and transparent spending of public funds while taking into account the public interest and the interest of contracting authorities and tenderers.

2. The Authority shall

a) manage, update and publish in EPPS

(aa) the official list of approved tenderers, established by the Authority

(ab) without considering the reliability of the economic operator – the fact, description and summary of the relevant circumstances of the decisions of contracting authorities appropriate for justifying the exclusion under Article 62 (1) i) and j) and the No°, electronic availability (if any) of arbitration board and court decision justifying exclusion under Article 62 (1) i) and j) and the date of the decision,

(ac) in the case of a serious breach of contractual obligations undertaken in a public procurement procedure, as established by a final court decision or undisputed by the economic operator, the fact, description, and essential characteristics of the breach shall be recorded. This includes whether the breach led to the termination or withdrawal from the contract, claims for damages, or the enforcement of other sanctions applicable under the contract. It also includes cases where the conduct of the party contracting as the winning tenderer, for which they are responsible, caused the partial or complete impossibility of the contract. These data shall be made available in the EPPS for three years from the date of the breach or the date when the court decision becomes final.

(ad) resolutions on the request for self-clearance of an economic operator subject to exclusion [Article 188(4)],

(ae) the register of state public procurement consultants;

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b) keep a registry of public procurements;

c) assess the adequacy of conditions for being included as approved tenderer in the list drawn up by the economic or professional chamber, as well as register the list;

d) send the missing statistical data to the European Commission, at the request of the European Commission, send the information specified by this Act to the European Commission;

e) every three years draw up a statistical report on public contracts below EU thresholds, in particular on the total, aggregate estimated value of such public contracts during the period concerned, and dispatch the report to the minister responsible for public procurements, within a reasonable period;

f) make arrangements for editing the Public Procurement Bulletin, which is the Official Journal of the Public Procurement Authority (hereinafter referred to as ‘Public Procurement Bulletin) and for publishing and examining notices related to the contract award and design contest procedures. ensure completeness of data in the course of the control of notices and, in that context, may call upon the contracting authority to supply information; ensure publication of other data and information stipulated by this Act on its homepage or in the Public Procurement Bulletin;

g) publish on its homepage, at the time of their receipt, the data of the application initiating the procedure of the Arbitration Board and of the ex-officio initiation of the procedure, the substantial decision of the Arbitration Board and the decision closing the public procurement case, furthermore, in case of the administrative proceedings against the decision, the decision of the court;

h) set up and operate and publish on its homepage the public database of the decisions of review procedures, in which it ensures a free, full, electronic access for anybody to the decisions of the Arbitration Board and the court with the possibility of a keyword search;

i) publish on its homepage the guideline or communication specified in paragraph 10, Article 183(c) and Article 194(3);

j) monitor the notices on the amendment to the contracts concluded pursuant to the procurement procedure and the concession award procedure and, in the course of that, supervise the performance and amendment of the contracts, the result of the design contest procedure according to the GPAP, in the framework of an official control (hereinafter referred to as contract control procedure), according to the detailed rules set out in an act of legislation and, in particular, take the measures specified in Article 153(1)(c) and Article 175;

k) in regard to archive data, maintain the Public Procurement Database, which is the central register of procurement procedures, promote public access to public procurement information, the spread of the use of electronic public procurement databases, furthermore the support of electronic administration and communication possibilities; and within the framework of the aforementioned it shall ensure the possibility of an electronic publication, where the contracting authority may make available the procurement documents in a centralized manner, without any charge, in full, directly by electronic means for the tenderers, and where the tenderers may have access to procurement documents without any charge;

l) organize conferences in order to improve the knowledge of public procurement rules;

m) express opinions on issues of interpretation in matters of principle in cooperation with the minister responsible for public procurements - if necessary - in order to help contracting authorities in the course of the preparation and conduct of procurement procedures;

n) in the framework of relations with the public procurement organisations of other EU Member States, provide information - concerning in particular the certificates to be used in procurement procedures, the publicly available Hungarian databases, registers -, ensure publication of the list of relevant registers in the e-Certis system managed by the European Commission and, in particular, fulfil the obligations pursuant to Articles 44(3), 59(6), 60(5), 61(1), 62(3), 64(1) and (8) as well as Article 69(5) of Directive 2014/24/EU, furthermore, the obligations pursuant to Articles 62(3), 81(3), 84(5) as well as Article 86(1) and (4) of Directive 2014/25/EU;

o) monitor the enforcement of the rules stipulated in this Act, and initiate with competent persons the making or amendment to legislation related to public procurement;

p) review draft legislation and legislation concepts related to public procurement and the operation of the Authority;

q) renew permanently, maintain and publish on its homepage the wages usual or determined in the different sectors and the related common charges, on the basis of the collected data made available each year by the Minister responsible for Employment Policy;

r) determine the approval criteria and the methods of certification in relation to the official list of approved tenderers, established by the Authority;

s) collect statistical data on procurement procedures and publish them on its homepage on a regular basis;

t) prepare the organisational and operating regulations of the Authority and other internal regulations relating to the Authority’s operations, furthermore, its draft budget and annual budget report;

u) for informational purposes, publishes at its homepage the list of sheltered places of employment, including the products manufactured or distributed and services provided there;

v) perform other responsibilities designated to it by law;

w) manage and update the list of contracting authorities who are under the scope of the law, in the EPPS;

x) manage CoRe with exclusive rights.

y) publish on its website the implementing acts under Article 6(1) of the IPI Regulation.

2a. In view of fulfilling the duties stipulated in Article (2) u), the sheltered places of employment shall inform the Authority about their relevant quality and any change in their data without any delay, indicating the products manufactured or distributed and the services provided by them.

2b. In performing the tasks under paragraph 2(a), only the Authority shall be entitled to make changes to the data uploaded into the EPPS. The operator of the EPPS shall be responsible for the proper functioning of the EPPS in relation to the fulfilment of the requirements set out in this paragraph, paragraph 2(a) and Article 43(1a).

3. Upon invitation by the president of the Authority or a public procurement commissioner, all entities including trade organisations and representative organisations shall be required to give information on matters related to public procurement within ten days and to secure the accessibility of data available in the EPPS.

4. Each year, the Authority shall prepare a report to the Parliament on its activity, on its experience on the fairness and transparency of public procurement processes, and on the experience of review procedures. The report shall make statements regarding the tendency of the number and value of procurement procedures, and the economic situation of national tenderers, including micro, small and medium size enterprises. For information, the Authority shall send the report to the State Audit Office as well.

5. For the purposes of the official list of the approved tenderers, the Authority, the economic and professional chamber are entitled to manage data concerning identity, as well as skills, qualifications and professional experience of the persons designated by the applicant.

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10. Guidelines shall be issued by the Authority - in cooperation with the minister competent in foreign policy - concerning the international agreements related to public procurements, as well as concerning countries which have an agreement on avoidance of double taxation with Hungary.

11. A person whose personal or pecuniary interest is linked to any of the entities concerned by the procedure to be carried out by the Authority pursuant to paragraph (2)(a)(aa) and (ab) may not participate in the implementation or preparation thereof. The person concerned by that conflict of interest shall notify the President of the Authority without delay thereof and cease immediately to participate in the ongoing procedure or in the preparation of the procedure. The applicant and the approved tenderer concerned can challenge the decision of the Authority in an administrative proceeding not later than fifteen days after receipt of the decision. No appeal shall lie from the ruling of the court.

12. For the purpose of maintaining the register of state public procurement consultants, the Authority shall be entitled to keep records of the following information about state public procurement consultants: personal identification data, contact address, qualifications, data concerning legal capacity and criminal record, information about their employer and professional experience in public procurement, as well as whether the state public procurement consultant is eligible to pursue activities as defined in Article 2(1) of the Act LXXVIII of 2017 on the Professional Activities of Attorneys-at-law.

13. The Authority may keep the data referred to in paragraph 12 for one year after the removal of the state public procurement consultant from the relevant register. The state public procurement consultant must be removed from the relevant register, if

a) if he does not fulfil the requirements for registration laid down by an act of legislation;

b) any of the exclusion grounds pursuant to paragraph (14) exist, or a final and binding decision established that the state public procurement consultant, in their capacity as such, wilfully infringed the law;

c) if the effect of the registration has expired and no request for renewal was submitted or this request was rejected or the procedure was terminated before the effect of the registration expired;

d) so requested by the state public procurement consultant; or

e) in case of death of the person included in the list.

14. The following shall preclude eligibility for the post of state public procurement consultant:

a) incompetency or partially limited capacity;

b) not relieved from the detrimental consequences of prior convictions;

c) post of public procurement commissioner;

d) the President of the Public Procurement Authority.

15. The statements proving the non-existence of the ground for exclusion pursuant to Article 14(a)(c)(d) shall be attached to the application for registration. The Authority shall verify the non-existence of the ground for exclusion pursuant to Article 14(b) in the form of data request from the criminal register, made concurrent with the submission of the application for registration. For the registration, the renewal of the registration and the supplementation of the submitted data, an administrative service fee shall be paid, the amount of which is set in an act of legislation. No exemption shall be granted from the payment of the administrative service fee.

16. After the verification of the documents attached to the application for registration, the Authority shall make a decision, in pursuance of GPAP, about the suitability of the documents within twenty days of receipt of the application; no summarized procedure can apply in regard to the adoption of this decision. The Authority shall suspend the procedure if no substantiated decision can be made in lack of another official decision closely correlated therewith. The Authority shall grant a one-time eight-day time limit to the applicant to substitute the incomplete documents.

17. The application for registration shall be submitted in writing. Electronic communication shall apply during the official procedure. The application cannot be submitted at a government window. The documents to be submitted to verify the conditions of registration shall not be substituted with the statement of the party.

18. Persons whose personal or pecuniary interest is linked to any of the entities concerned by the procedure to be carried out by the Authority according to paragraph 12 may not participate in the implementation or preparation thereof. Persons concerned by the conflict of interest shall notify the Authority without delay and cease immediately to participate in the ongoing procedure or in the preparation of the procedure. Applicants and state public procurement consultants concerned may challenge the decision of the Authority within fifteen days of receipt thereof. There is no right of appeal against the court’s judgment.

1. Economic operators subject to a ground for exclusion other than those referred to in Article 62(1)(a)(aa)–(ah) and Article 62(1)(b) and (f) may lodge an application with the Authority to establish that the measures taken by them are sufficient to demonstrate their reliability notwithstanding the existence of a relevant ground for exclusion. An editable electronic version of the application, created using IT tools, shall be submitted to the Public Procurement Authority. When submitted via email, the Public Procurement Authority will confirm receipt within one business day. The evidence of the measures taken shall be submitted to the Public Procurement Authority, together with the relevant application.

2. In order to demonstrate its reliability, the economic operator subject to a ground for exclusion shall prove that

a) it has paid or undertaken to pay compensation in an amount as agreed with the injured party, within a specified period, in respect of any damage caused by the criminal offence, misconduct or other infringement;

b) it has clarified the facts and circumstances in a comprehensive manner by actively collaborating with the competent authorities; and

c) it has taken concrete technical, organisational and personnel measures that are appropriate to prevent further criminal offences, misconduct or other infringement.

3. The measures referred to in paragraph 2 shall be evaluated by the Authority taking into account the gravity and particular circumstances of the criminal offence, misconduct or other infringement.

4. The Authority shall assess, in its decision to be taken within fifteen days following receipt of the application, whether the measures taken by the economic operator are appropriate. The rules pertaining to summarized procedure shall not be applicable. The rules of GPAP concerning the submission of missing information shall apply during the procedure with the derogation that the Authority may on several occasions call upon the applicant party to submit the missing information.

4a. In duly justified cases, the time limit may be extended on one occasion by not more than fifteen business days and the applicant economic operator shall be notified at the same time thereof. The Authority shall send the decision to the economic operator without any delay, in writing. The decision establishing that the economic operator subject to a ground for exclusion is reliable may not include any condition or requirement of further measures to be taken by the economic operator.

4b. Where the application is rejected by the Authority in a decision, the economic operator subject to the given ground for exclusion may submit another application, according to paragraph 1, in relation to the same ground for exclusion, only if it intends to demonstrate its reliability by reference to a measure taken subsequent to the rejection of its previous application.

5. The applicant may initiate an administrative proceeding against the decision rejecting the application in not more than fifteen days of receipt of the decision. No appeal shall lie from the ruling of the court.6. A person whose right or legitimate interest is directly affected by the case or who cannot be expected to assess the case objectively may not be involved in the examination of the application referred to in paragraph 1. When establishing whether a conflict of interest arises in the case of persons involved in the examination of the application according to paragraph 1, Article 147(1)-(2) shall apply accordingly, with the proviso that the client organisation referred to therein shall mean applicant, the public procurement case shall mean the examination of the application, the commencement of the review procedure shall mean the date of submission of the application. The person who is subject to the ground for conflict of interest referred to in this paragraph shall notify the President of the Authority without delay thereof and cease immediately to participate in the ongoing procedure or in the preparation of the procedure.

1. Where the President of the Authority finds upon the examination of the documents sent to the Authority in relation to the launch of a negotiated procedure without a notice that there is a well-founded supposition of a breach of the rules and fundamental principles set out for public procurement and for procurement procedures, he shall initiate the ex officio procedure of the Public Procurement Arbitration Board, not later than ten business days counted from the receipt of such documents. When lodging the initiation, the President of the Authority shall notify the contracting authority thereof, by indicating the alleged infringement.

2. Where compliance with the requirements concerning the applicability of the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice or the lawfulness of the invitation to tender may not be clearly established on the basis of the documents supplied by the contracting authority, the President of the Authority shall call upon the contracting authority to supply the necessary information within three days by fax or by electronic means.

3. Should the contracting authority fail to produce the missing information, the President of the Authority shall decide about the initiation of the proceeding on the basis of the information already available.

Article 189/A

1. The time limit for the arrangement of the contract control procedure shall start on the day after the launch of the procedure.

2. The time limit for the arrangement of the contract control procedure covers a period of 90 days, which may be extended by not more than 30 days on one occasion.

3. The time limit for arrangement shall not include:

a) the duration of the procedure of the competent authority;

b) the time period of conducting the expert review and making the expert opinion;

c) the time period from the notice to supply missing information to the supply of that information;

d) the time period from the notice addressed to the party to provide the data necessary in order to clarify the facts, to present a document or any other deed, to the fulfilment of that notice.

For the purposes of publication of the decisions of the Arbitration Board and the decisions delivered in the administrative procedure relevant to procurement procedures, the provisions set out in Chapter XII of the Act CLXI of 2011 on the Organisation and Administration of the Courts (hereinafter referred to as ‘OAC’) shall be applied with the following differences:

a) contrary to the provisions laid down by Article 163(1) of the OAC, it is incumbent on the Public Procurement Authority to publish the court rulings delivered in the procurement procedure and the Reports on the Decisions of the Public Procurement Arbitration Board,

b) it is incumbent on the Public Procurement Arbitration Board to make anonymous digital copies according to Article 163(3) of the OAC in relation to the decisions of the Public Procurement Arbitration Board,

c) the application specified in Article 166(4) may be presented to the President of the Public Procurement Authority,

d) Article 163(2) and (5) may not be applied,

e) Article 163(3) Article 164(1) of the OAC may be applied noting that the decision shall be sent to the President of the National Council of Justice of Hungary by the Chairperson of the court which delivered the decision for the purposes of its publication in the Reports and the President of the National Council of Justice of Hungary shall make the decision – as well as the related decisions specified in Article 163(3) of the OAC - available for the President of the Public Procurement Authority.

1. The Authority may not conduct any other business activities, accept pecuniary contributions from, or grant the same to any entities or persons.

2. The collected administrative service fee, shall constitute the Authority‘s own revenues. The revenue from the examination of the notices shall be used partly to ensure the IT support for the Authority to perform its duties pursuant to this Act.

3. The administrative service fees payable pursuant to paragraph 2 shall be used to cover the costs incurred by the Authority in the course of performing its duties.

4. The Authority shall keep separate records of the administrative service fee, procedural fine and fine payments received, for the purpose of monitoring compliance with the fee payment obligation. Taking into account Article 89(1)b) and Article 90(1) and (2) of Act I of 2017 on the Code of Administrative Court Procedure and the related provisions of this Act, the Authority shall make settlements of its revenues, as of December 31, from fines in the current year as reduced with the amount of its repayment obligations incurred in the current year. The maintenance of records on fees, procedural fine and fine, their handling and reporting shall be governed by the legislation on the accounting of public finances.

5. To the administrative service fee referred to in paragraph 2 Act XCIII of 1990 on Duties (hereinafter: AD) shall apply as follows:

a) its provisions set out in Article 3 (4) and Article 28 (2) and (3) shall apply to fee payment obligation;

b) the first sentence of Article 31(1) and the provisions set out in Article 31(2) and (5) and shall apply to the establishment of entities subject to fee payment;

c) its provisions set out in Article 86 shall apply to limitation as appropriate, with the derogation that the duty referred to in the AD shall be interpreted as fee.

Article 191/A

1. The President of the Authority shall decide, in his powers not authorized to be delegated, about the principles of the Authority relevant to income policy and its fringe benefits.

2. The Authority and the civil servants of the Authority shall agree on the civil servants’ income, benefits, duration of compensatory leave, the daily working hours and the general work schedule in a public service employment contract.

Article 191/B

Article 191/C

Article 191/D

The Authority is not subject to the scope of data supply related to administrative human resources activities.