Publication: Magyar Közlöny
Issue: MK-2003-92 (Year: 2003, Number: 92)
Era: 1990-2004
Section: 1996. évi LVII. törvény (Tptv.) 36/A. §-a alapján vizsgálatot kezdett a mobiltelefon szolgáltatás ágazatban. A GVH a
Paragraph Index: 1036

6. Resources Raising awareness, like other activities of the Commissioner, depends on adequate resources. In 2001 the Commissioner had a budget of 540,869 EUR. He has 25 staff of his own and also receives assistance from a group of 50 staff who provide general administrative support to three parliamentary commissioners and deputies. It is difficult to draw meaningful international comparisons between the resources available to independent supervisory authorities given the variation in duties and structure. Nevertheless, the resources available to the Hungarian Commissioner appear to be on the low side, at least in comparison to EU member states, given the population of over 10 million and the fact that the Commissioner’s responsibilities extend to freedom of information as well as data protection. Although the Commissioner and his staff have, and we are sure will continue to, achieve a great deal within the resources available to them, a limited but reasonable increase in resources would enable them to develop their activities in the areas identified in this report as being most pressing. One area that raised particular concern was the infrastructure provided for the Commissioner. The standard of office accommodation could not be faulted but the information systems were not of an equivalent standard. The limited capabilities of the systems appeared to hinder staff. This was particularly so in relation to the use of the internet. Supervisory authorities increasingly rely on their web sites as the primary means of communication with data controllers, if not with data subjects. The Commissioner had not, for example, been able to make the registration application form available on-line or put the register of data controllers on the internet because of technical difficulties. There were also doubts about the system for financing the Commissioner’s work. One budget is provided for the Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights and his deputy, the Parliamentary Commissioner for National and Ethnic Minorities and the Parliamentary Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information. The Commissioners then have to divide the budget amongst themselves. Potentially this could lead to one aspect of human rights being played off against another and is likely to perpetrate what has been the historical division of resources between the different Commissioners. It must also hinder transparency, in that presumably the Parliament does not know precisely what resources it is allocating to data protection. There would appear to be a case for a specific budget to be allocated to the Commissioner based on Parliament’s assessment of the Commissioner’s needs and the priority it gives to them. IV. CONCLUSIONS

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