As a result, print media are completely privatized and the electronic media include both state-run and private enterprises. In the area of broadcasting, the most significant development was the adoption of the Media Act in 1996, which introduced a legal framework for a liberal broadcasting landscape. There is also a large number of national and foreign newspapers and magazines, as well as private television and radio services. The ORTT has set up a Complaints Committee with a five-year mandate for hearing complaints in relation to violation of the principle of impartiality of information. Holding Certain Key Offices of 1994.
Brief commentary is provided on the current status and operations of the print and broadcast media.
Referring to the recruitment of children as a cheap source of labour, separate from trafficking for purposes of prostitution, the report notes that children are being trafficked from such countries as Belarus, Russia and Ukraine into Hungary. The report notes the failure of the IMF and World Bank to protect health, nutrition and education budgets from general fiscal retrenchment in the design of structural adjustment programmes. Reference is made to testimonies given at the Hungarian citizens' forum which was held under the Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Initiative. Hungary is among the countries in the Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Network. The report refers to a case that was transmitted in 1997.