On Thursday, October 27 Gen. Dr. Tibor Benkő, the Chief of the MoD Defence Staff received Gen. Tong Shiping, the deputy director of the General Political Department (GPD) of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Heading a delegation of six, the Chinese general was on a visit to Hungary to conduct negotiations.
The Central Agriculture Office (MgSzH) has fined five commercial chain stores a total of 345 million forints for unfair conduct as distributors with regard to their suppliers. The Authority has obliged the corporations concerned to pay a product route supervision fine.
During the past few days, the small loose dust particle (PM10) pollution in the air has risen throughout the country. Levels of pollution over the alerting level have been measured in several settlements. In Nyíregyháza, the smog warning was raised to alert level, while in Budapest, Debrecen, Miskolc and Pécs, the level was declared high enough to require the informing of the public.
Agricultural producers working in the crop cultivation and horticulture sector may have a new, two-pillar risk management system available from January 1, 2012. Thanks to the new system, farmers will be better protected against the effects of adverse meteorological conditions.
The Southeast European Cooperative Initiative (SECI) to prevent and combat cross-border crime was adopted in Bucharest on 26th May 1999. In order to develop SECI Center a Convention (Convention on the Establishment of the Southeast European Law Enforcement Center - SELEC) was signed – as a result of intensive negotiations over nearly 3 years - on 9th December 2009 in Bucharest.
Hungary considers responsible, productive, efficient and safe use of cyberspace to be a priority for the 21st century.
Several grapevines were planted today in Budapest's Jókai Garden. The aim of the initiative by the Ministry of Rural Development and the Duna-Ipoly National Park is for the Kadarka grape variety and wine to regain its earlier prestige.
After it took office in May 2010, the new government faced several unexpected challenges. Serious measures had to be undertaken to control the slippage in the 2010 budget. Without prompt fiscal adjustment, general government deficit would have increased close to 7% of GDP. The two action plans announced in the second half of last year introduced rigorous saving measures on the expenditure side (freezing of appropriations, elimination of bonuses, revision of outsourced activities, reduction of purchase of goods and services).
Under the coordination of the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, altogether eight ministries, five national security services and several cooperating organizations have completed a one-week NATO exercise.
Minister for National Development Tamás Fellegi opened the seventh international conference on Competitiveness Operational Programmes organised by the National Development Agency, the Hungarian Economic Development Centre and the European Commission on 27 October 2011 in Budapest. In his address he pointed out that conspicuous progress has been made in the compliance of the allocation of EU funds and their speed in the period that has elapsed since the change of government. In the near future in a resolution the government will codify the tasks to be performed in the interest of fully using the available limit and further accelerating the system.