On 10 January 2011 Minister for National Development Dr. Tamás Fellegi had talks with French Minister of Industry, Energy and Digital Economy, Eric Besson and Minister of Environment Protection, Sustainable Development, Transport and Housing, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet.
Hungary attaches outstanding significance to maintaining the weight and structure of Cohesion Policy during its Presidency,
Smart spectrum strategy needed for further telecoms growth key EU institutional players agree
On 14 December 2010 Pál Völner, Secretary of State for the Hungarian Minister of National Development, held talks in Paris with Thierry Mariani, Secretary of State for Transport for the French Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transport and Housing, to discuss the programme and priorities of the Hungarian EU presidency.
The 16th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-16) was concluded with an agreement on 10 December 2010. With the adoption and signing of the agreements drafted by the working groups, the participating member states ratified the continuation of the Kyoto Protocol and declared the necessity of drafting a new climate treaty. The adopted documents also set out the commitments of the United States and developing countries relating to climate policy and the reduction of greenhouse gases. The Hungarian delegation was led by Péter Olajos, deputy state secretary of the Ministry of National Development responsible for the development of the green economy and climate policy. The Hungarian delegation included several climate policy experts of the ministry.
Pál Völner, state secretary of the Ministry of National Development, met British Secretary of State for Transport Philip Hammond in the spirit of the preparation for the EU presidency on 9 December 2010 in London.
Effective as of 3 December 2010, the Minister for national development, Tamás Fellegi has been appointed Government Commissioner for Hungarian-Chinese Economic Relations for a term of 18 months.
Between 6 and 9 December, Tamás Fellegi is meeting leaders of the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Railways, as well as the heads of large companies and banks in Beijing to conduct negotiations.
Jaroslaw Pietras, Director-General in the EU Council's Secretariat-General (DG I) was welcomed in Budapest on 29 November 2010 by Iván Tamás Kovács, Deputy State Secretary in charge of European Union and International Affairs and Péter Olajos, Deputy-State Secretary Responsible for Green Economy and Climate Policy. Of the EU Council's secretariats-general, "DG I" is responsible for policies on climate change, environment protection, healthcare, consumer protection, food safety, education, youth policies, culture and audio-visual policies.
Zoltán Schváb, Deputy State Secretary of the Ministry of National Development in charge of transport and co-chairman of the Accident Prevention Committee of the Hungarian Police Force, opened the conference "How to go on? Road Safety after the White Book" on 30 November 2010 in Budapest. The State Secretary reported that Hungary's action programme for the next few years was just before finalisation. During the event it was made known that a total of HUF 1.8 billion co-financing had been made available for local councils to implement road safety projects in the framework of the recently published tenders up to 2013.