deadline reminders, increased knowledge of in-formation technology among clerks.
Responsible: Government Commissioner for Information Technology
Deadline: on-going
d) The implementation of the documentation pro-ject begun by the Prime Minister’s Office in 1999 should be continued. Based on the newly deve-loped Government Documentation System, uni-form standards of documentation should be ela-borated.
Responsible: Government Commissioner for Information Technology Deadline:
• for project
completion: 30 September 2001
• for the elabo-ration of
standards: 31 March 2002
e) An examination should be made concerning which information technology and data protection sys-tems are available within the whole of the national budget, and how these may be used to gain access to data and to establish an extensive data base, a base forming the basis of, and necessary for, cost-benefit analysis; and the first steps towards the elaboration of a data base should be taken.
Responsible: Government Commissioner for Information Technology
Deadline: on-going
II/16.
An examination should be made of the possibility of establishing computer records and checking systems between the organizations of public administration, and of the possibility of establishing a uniform natio-nal system for the distribution of grants and assistance, with a view to strengthening controls on the use of European Union financial resources.
Responsible:
• for the technical Government establishment of Commissioner for grant records and Information Technology control systems:
II/17.
With a view to establishing a system of public ad-ministration that meets the requirements of disabled people, the ministries should examine and make pro-posals concerning:
• An increase in the number of disabled experts employed in public administration
The possibility of establishing an administration that is free of obstacles from an architectural and communicational perspective.
Responsible: ministers concerned
Deadline: on-going
II/18.
Methodological assistance should be provided for the support of the wider application within public admi-nistration of modern quality assurance systems, and a national program for the introduction of quality assurance systems into organs of state administration should be elaborated. Within this framework:
• A survey should be performed of the initiatives of organs of state administration and self-govern-ment in this area,
• With a view to the introduction of a uniform system of quality assurance and development, which may be applied throughout the system of public administration, a domestic adaptation of the system applied in the European Union (the Common Assessment Framework) should be elaborated, and its implementation should be commenced according to a schedule established in the national program.
Responsible: Minister Heading the Prime Minister’s Office Through the Hungarian Public Administration Institute
• for measuring the initiatives of the
munici-palities: Minister of the Interior
Deadline: on-going
III. Legislative Tasks Affecting
157 a) The draft of a new uniform law on public
admi-nistration procedure should be elaborated. This should include a definition of the legal term of organ of public administration and its types.
Responsible: Minister of the Interior Minister of Justice Minister Heading the Prime Minister’s Office Deadline: the bill should be
sub-mitted to the Government by March 31, 2002 b) In connection with the elaboration of the new
law on public administration procedure, the de-tailed regulations concerning the new system of supervision for the organs of state administration should be drawn up.
Responsible: Minister of the Interior Deadline: in line with the above
deadline
c) Following the adoption of the new law on public administration procedure, the ministries should provide for the amendment of the legal regulations affected by the reform of the general procedure.
With a view to a rapid settlement, the ministries should begin a review of the special procedural regulations within their own sectors once the regula-tory strategy/draft of the new law has been adopted.
Responsible: ministers concerned
Deadline: on-going
III/2.
With regard to regulatory reform:
a) The amendment to the law on legislation, which is necessary owing to Hungary’s accession to the European Union, should be elaborated.
Responsible: according to Government Resolution No. 2319/2000.
(XII. 21.) Korm.
Deadline:
• for the sub- according to Government mission of Resolution No. 2319/2000.
the regulatory (XII. 21.) Korm.
strategy to the Government:
• for the sub-mission of the draft bill to the
Government: 28 February 2002 b) An action plan should be drawn up processing
the recommendations made by the OECD con-cerning regulatory reform in its country report on Hungary, as well as the annual reports of the
European Commission. An inter-departmental committee should be established for this purpose.
Responsible: Minister Heading the Prime Minister’s Office Minister of Justice Heads of ministries affected
Deadline: 1 July 2001
c) The main regulations of the organizational and pro-cedural rules relating to the continuous deregu-latory examination of laws should be elaborated.
Responsible: Ministry of Justice
Deadline: 31 December 2001
d) The methodology of examining the preliminary and subsequent effects of laws and their drafts should be prepared, and methodological assis-tance should be provided with a view to support-ing its introduction and propagation.
Responsible: Minister of Justice
Deadline: on-going
• elaboration of the
methodology: 31 March 2002
e) The Minister of Justice should prepare a report annually on the results of technical and essential, and continuous and specific instances of deregu-lation.
Responsible: Minister of Justice Deadline:
• first deadline: 31 December 2001 III/3.
Concerning the constitutional amendment that is mentioned in Point 2/a. of Government Resolution No. 2319/2000. (XII. 21.) Korm. And is necessary owing to the accession of Hungary to the European Union, the following should be elaborated:
a) Legislation concerning the signing of internatio-nal treaties;
b) Legislation concerning foreign relations.
Responsible:
• for point a): Minister of Justice Minister of Foreign Affairs
• for point b): Minister of Foreign Affairs Minister of Justice Deadline:
• submission of the regulatory strategies to the
Government: 31 August 2001
• submission of draft legis-lation to the
Government: 28 February 2002
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III/4.
With regard to the regulatory guidelines of chapter I of the Government Resolution, the regulatory strategy for a comprehensive amendment to the law on local self-governments should be prepared. Within this framework, special attention should be paid to the following issues:
• The scope, system, and legal and professional conditions of tasks of state administration ful-filled at the local self-governments,
• Possibilities of establishing systems of administ-ration for areas surrounding cities (small regions),
• Modernization of the system of administration of the capital city and the surrounding area,
• Possible solutions for a reform of the level of re-gional self-government, and its effect on the elec-toral system,
• Reform of the system of financing,
• Extension of the legal monitoring system of self-governments.
In areas of special attention, various strategies and regulatory plans of equal professional value should be elaborated, analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of the various solutions.
Responsible: Minister of the Interior Minister of Justice Minister Heading the Prime Minister’s Office Minister of Finance
• with regard to reform of the system of
financing: Minister of Finance
Deadline: 31 December 2001
III/5.
Regulations should be drafted concerning the preli-minary control of the use and auditing of local self-government assistance stemming from the central budget and from other sub-systems of the state budget.
Responsible: Minister of Finance
Deadline: 31 August 2001
III/6.
With regard to the tasks concerning the introduction of a public service career structure:
a) A proposal should be made concerning the draft-ing of detailed regulations relatdraft-ing to the priority
b) The draft of a government decree containing de-tailed regulations on the introduction of a wealth declaration and control system should be elabo-rated.
Responsible: Minister of the Interior
Deadline: 1 July 2001
c) After the amendment to the law on the legal sta-tus of civil servants, any necessary amendments to the executive decrees of the law must be pre-pared, with respect to qualifications, public service records, the public service legal status of civil ser-vants employed permanently abroad, the placing of staff in reserve, and regulations concerning the temporary posting abroad of civil servants.
Responsible: Minister of the Interior Minister of Foreign Affairs
Deadline: 31 December 2001
d) In connection with the comprehensive review of the law on the legal status of civil servants, the government decrees on professional examinations in the public administration sphere and on the fur-ther training of civil servants and public administ-ration management training should be amended.
Responsible: Minister of the Interior Minister Heading the Prime Minister’s Office
Deadline: 31 December 2001
e) Ministry agreements concerning the ministries’
civil servants employed permanently abroad should be elaborated and the deregulation of related current internal provisions should be implemented.
Responsible: Minister of Foreign Affairs in agreement with the ministers concerned
Deadline: 31 December 2001
III/7.
With a view to the uniform and district-centered pro-vision of the tasks of state administration:
a) The harmonization of the territorial competence of the four types of local administrative districts should be concluded.
Responsible: according to Government Resolution No. 2341/2000.
(XII. 27.) Korm.
• for coordi- Minister Heading the nation: Prime Minister’s Office
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and an examination should be made of the pos-sibility of harmonizing the territorial competence of organs providing public administration tasks and functioning at district level. On the basis of the result of the examination, a strategy should be elaborated concerning the general administ-rative category of the small region of public ad-ministration, and, within this framework, the main provisions concerning its tasks, organization, management, territories of territorial competence, and financing should be elaborated.
Responsible: ministers concerned
• for the coordi- Minister Heading the nation: Prime Minister’s Office
Deadline: on-going
III/8.
With regard to regional development:
a) The detailed regulations relating to the operation of the county area development councils, territorial development councils, and regional development councils as well as their legal supervision should be elaborated.
Responsible: according to Government Resolution No. 2313/2000.
(XII. 20.) Korm.
Deadline: according to Government Resolution No. 2313/2000.
(XII. 20.) Korm.
b) A proposal should be drafted concerning the ela-boration of uniform organizational and opera-tional regulations and procedural rules for the monitoring committees.
Responsible: according to Government Resolution No. 2134/1999.
(VI. 11.) Korm.
Deadline: according to Government Resolution No. 2134/1999.
(VI. 11.) Korm.