At a press conference held on 19 June 2012 in the Ministry of National Development in Budapest, NATO was reported to have selected Hungary as the successful applicant for re-opening the upper airspace over Kosovo and restart air traffic. HungaroControl Zrt. may be assigned the duty from spring 2013 if all the required conditions are met, said Zsolt Németh, Parliamentary Minister of State of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since 2003 NATO has been seeking a technical solution for opening the upper airspace over Kosovo to the international air traffic, he added.
H. E. János Martonyi, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Hungary paid a visit to Jeddah on June 19, 2012 to express his own condolences and those of Hungary and its Government, to the new Crown Prince, His Royal Highness Salman on the occasion of the passing away of His Royal Highness Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on June 16.
In order to combat tax fraud in agriculture, from 1 July 2012 the regulations of reverse charge taxation shall be applied for trade transactions between domestic taxpayers for certain cereals, oilseeds and protein crops (corn, wheat, barley, rye, oat, triticale, sunflower-seed, rape and rape-seed as well as soybean).
The National Office for Intellectual Property established a non-profit agency, HIPAVILON Magyar Szellemi Tulajdon Ügynökség Nonprofit Kft. as a new market player of Hungary’s system of innovation-oriented institutions to promote the growth and market opportunities of Hungarian innovation.
Viktor Orbán inaugurated the new thermal bathing complex in Nagykáta on Monday. The project situated some sixty kilometres from Budapest was implemented partly from aid supplied from the New Széchenyi Plan and partly from local funding.
On behalf of the Government, Deputy Prime Minister Tibor Navracsics expressed his support for the establishment of the National Youth Council to the representatives of the attending civil organisations focusing on young people. By virtue of the foundation of the organisation, Hungary, as the last of the EU Member States, may now join the European Youth Forum, an organisation with a membership of more than a hundred European youth organisations.
In April 2012 gross average wages of the private sector increased by 6.5 percent, whereas net wages excluding family tax allowances were up by 3.5 percent compared to the corresponding period of the previous year – the Hungarian Statistical Office (KSH) reported earlier this morning in its statistical release.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán offered his condolences due to the death of Crown Prince, heir to the Saudi throne, Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz on Sunday.
The Venice Commission found the Hungarian laws currently under review, that is, the franchise law, the law on the rights of nationalities and the legislation on the prosecution service, democratic on the whole and concluded that they serve constitutionality, Minister of State for Justice Róbert Répássy said after the plenary session of the body on Friday.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, János Martonyi sent the following letter of condolences to His Royal Highness Prince Saud Al-Faisal Bin Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia after the recent death of His Royal Highness Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: