BackThe Commissioner for Fundamental Rights in Hungary filed a petition to the Constitutional Court on the provisions concerning the confinement and detention of juvenile offenders.
The provision of the Regulatory Offences Act making it possible to order confinement and detention for regulatory offences is contrary to the Fundamental Law and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which has been promulgated in Hungary. Since, in spite of previous warnings by the Ombudsman, the new Regulatory Offences Act, effective as of 15 April, still allows the above sanctions, the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights has requested the Constitutional Court to review certain provisions of the Act.
Furthermore the Constitutional Court was addressed by the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights concerning a government decree regulating student contracts.
The mandatory conditions of student contracts laid down in a rule of law, in particular the regulation that provides for a long and general obligation to perform work in Hungary, constitute a disproportionate restriction of rights. The Commissioner for Fundamental Rights therefore requested the Constitutional Court to examine whether the government decree on student contracts is compatible with the guarantees laid down in the Fundamental Law.
Source: Commissioner for Fundamental Rights
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