Changes in the rules on civil protection obligations and their disaster management aspects in the context of defence and security reform

Abstract

The amendment of the Fundamental Law, Act XCIII of 2021 on the Coordination of National Defense and Security Activities, and its implementing regulations, in the spirit of further strengthening the protection and security of the country and Hungarian citizens, completely changed and put on a new basis the special legal situations, as well as the legal regulatory areas determining the performance of related state tasks, as well as the performance of state and national tasks. In this study, the author briefly presents the factors necessitating the reform, as well as the basic features and most important innovations of the Law on the Coordination of Defense and Security Activities. It examines the amendments to the regulations on civil protection obligations from two perspectives. He analyzes the changes observed in the location of the regulatory system on the one hand and in its content on the other.