Office of the commissioner for fundamental rights of hungary

As per the invitation of Lieutenant General Dr. Tamás Tóth, Director General of the Hungarian Prison Service, Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary Dr. Ákos Kozma participated in the annual general briefing and awards ceremony in honour of the patron saint of the Hungarian Prison Service, Saint Adrian, which took place in the Ministry of Interior on 6 September, 2024. During the event, Minister of Interior Dr. Sándor Pintér acknowledged the exemplary fulfilment of service-related duties and rewarded several staff members for their professional conduct.

Based on the initiative of Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary Dr. Ákos Kozma, the agencies and organizations – such as the Hungarian Prison Service, the Police and the state-owned forest enterprises – participating in the renovation and refurbishment-related programme aimed at several residential child care communities donated school supplies to the residents of these facilities, including the ones that had been renovated through mutual effort.

The Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary gave a speech at the opening ceremony of the 27th ÁGOTA® Camp at Tass-Alsószenttamás on 22 July 2024.

Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary Dr. Ákos Kozma and Deputy Commissioner for Fundamental Rights, Ombudsman for the Rights of National Minorities Dr. Elisabeth Sándor-Szalay launched a joint inquiry in 2023, in order to get a comprehensive view of the national minority-related contents of the cultural institutions. As part of this inquiry, several on-site visits took place in the past few months, where the regulatory frameworks and the possible ways of the practical implementation of the rules were discussed, among others. On 17-18 June 2024, invited by the Slovenian community, the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary and the Deputy Commissioner for the Rights of National Minorities paid a visit to Vas County, where they first of all got acquainted with the cultural values of the Slovenian and Croatian national minorities and also visited the main cultural institutions of these communities. During the visit, the Ombudsman and his deputy conducted professional coordination talks with the elected leaders and cultural experts of the Slovenian community, as well as the staff members of the museums.

On 10 June 2024, the Civil Consultative Body (CCB) supporting the work of the OPCAT National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) held a meeting, in which Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary Dr. Ákos Kozma also took part.

The Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary hosted the experts of the European Commission monitoring the management of the external Schengen borders of the EU in his Office on 4 June 2024.