<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>A country’s economic situation, its political establishment, and the prevailing environmental conditions have a significant impact on the institutional system required for efficient environmental protection measures. During our work, we reviewed the institutional changes and legislation regarding environmental protection which have occurred over the past 20 years as well as the role of changes in the government. In summary, it can be concluded that significant changes occurred during the past two decades. The names, organizational structures, operations, and scopes of ministries have undergone regular changes over the years. In Hungary, there has been no separate ministry of the environment since 2010, and this area is regulated only on the state secretary level. In contrast, in the V4 countries and the Carpathian Basin, environmental protection is regulated on the ministry level.</p></abstract>

A country’s economic situation, its political establishment, and the prevailing environmental conditions have a significant impact on the institutional system required for efficient environmental protection measures. During our work, we reviewed the institutional changes and legislation regarding environmental protection which have occurred over the past 20 years as well as the role of changes in the government. In summary, it can be concluded that significant changes occurred during the past two decades. The names, organizational structures, operations, and scopes of ministries have undergone regular changes over the years. In Hungary, there has been no separate ministry of the environment since 2010, and this area is regulated only on the state secretary level. In contrast, in the V4 countries and the Carpathian Basin, environmental protection is regulated on the ministry level.

Institutional changes in Hungarian environmental policy between 1998 and 2018

Department of Landscape Protection and Environmental Geography

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Agriculture and Environment

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A country’s economic situation, its political establishment, and the prevailing environmental conditions have a significant impact on the institutional system...

Institutional changes in Hungarian environmental policy between 1998 and 2018

Published Online: Dec 31, 2019

Page range: 38 - 50

Received: Mar 10, 2019

Accepted: Apr 25, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausae-2019-0004

Keywords
environmental ministries, environmental legislation, law

© 2019 Emőke Kiss et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Institutional changes in Hungarian environmental policy between 1998 and 2018

Published Online: Dec 31, 2019

Page range: 38 - 50

Received: Mar 10, 2019

Accepted: Apr 25, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausae-2019-0004

Keywordsenvironmental ministries, environmental legislation, law

© 2019 Emőke Kiss et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
environmental ministries, environmental legislation, law