Hungary

Country Report

Country Report: Hungary Last updated: 28/08/24

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This report was written by Katalin Juhász, Blanka Csonka, Gruša Matevžič and Zsolt Szekeres of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC). The initial report and all previous updates were written by the HHC. The report was edited by ECRE.

The information for the 2023 update is obtained from the interviews with the HHC staff and contracted attorneys, UNHCR, IOM Hungary, as well as from questionnaires submitted to the Hungarian authorities and Hungarian civil and church organizations, i.e., Caritas Hungarica, Cordelia Foundation, Evangelical Luhteran Diakonia, Jesuit Refugee Service, Hungarian Interchurch Aid, Hungarian Maltese Charity, Hungarian Reformed Church Aid, Menedék Hungarian Association for Migrants, and Next Step Hungary Association and from available reports.

Contributed information to the TPD annex IOM Hungary, Caritas Hungarica, Cordelia Foundation, Evangelical Luhteran Diakonia, Jesuit Refugee Service, Hungarian Interchurch Aid, Hungarian Maltese Charity, Hungarian Reformed Church Aid, Menedék Hungarian Association for Migrants, and Next Step Hungary Association.

The 2023 update to the AIDA country report on Hungary was sent to the Hungarian authorities to provide them with the opportunity to provide comments on the draft country report. The comments were taken into account by the authors in the report below and the comments by the Department for European Home Affairs Cooperation and the Department of Citizenship and Civil Registration are also published in a separate annex on the AIDA website.

The information in this report is up-to-date as of 31 December 2023, unless otherwise stated.

Table of contents

  • Statistics
  • Overview of the legal framework
  • Overview of the main changes since the previous report update
  • Asylum Procedure
  • Reception Conditions
  • Detention of Asylum Seekers
  • Content of International Protection
  • ANNEX I – Transposition of the CEAS in national legislation