In order to facilitate the public participation in legislative drafting, the Ministry publishes half-yearly the list of acts and decrees being drafted and also requests the list of other ministries' legislation significantly affecting the environment. NGOs can express their intention to be involved in arbitration. Organisations entered on the lobby-list might announce their intention to give opinion. As an advisory board for the Government, the National Environmental Council was formed in 1996. One third of the Council members are representatives of environmental non-governmental organisations.
Further representatives ensure the participation of the scientific organisations and the business.
The environmental NGOs also represented in the Hungarian Commission on Sustainable Development which was set up in 1993. Making use of their rights, more and more organisations are getting involved in environmental legislation. In the case of issues of major interest, such as the National Environmental Programme, the Waste Management Concept or the Environment Load Charge, the Ministry organised co-ordination forums in the interest of exchange of views among the representatives of various interest groups.