President Áder Requests Constitutional Review of Waste Management Law
President János Áder has asked the Constitutional Court for a review of an amendment proposal to a law on waste management approved by parliament last week, the President’s Office said on Monday.
In his request, Áder said he considered it unconstitutional that under a provision in the bill producers would be stripped of their ownership rights of their production and industrial waste without receiving compensation.
The president said the bill giving concession groups a discriminatory advantage was also unconstitutional.
The Orbán government has submitted two legislative proposals to parliament aiming to turn the state-run waste management holding and the national mobile payment systems into concessions, Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony said on Wednesday. The revamp would “upend the municipality’s plans”, Karácsony said in a Facebook post, adding that local authorities could fulfil the tasks “well […]Continue reading