The NMHH’s main responsibilities
The NMHH’s primary tasks include general and very specific regulatory, supervisory, control and other functions set out in legislation. In order to achieve its key social goals, such as the protection of future generations, the Authority undertakes extra tasks in the public interest, and provides special services for various groups, including adult and underage media consumers and internet users.
In this spirit, cooperation – both within and across borders – is a priority. We think far beyond the domestic and international cooperation framework prescribed by law: we have concluded and maintain strategic agreements with market operators, other institutions of Hungarian public administration, public education institutions, universities, academics and journalistic organisations.
Our website strives to present the full range of the Authority’s functions, regulatory activities, services and voluntary engagements to market actors, professional stakeholders, citizens and the general public. To list some, the most important tasks of the Authority are:
Media supervision
Keeping records of radio, television and press products, checking and monitoring compliance with the relevant legislation. We ensure the freedom of the press and of the media but we also oversee their operations to ensure their legitimacy.
Child protection
As part of its official duties, the NMHH monitors compliance by media content providers with the rules and provisions of the Media Act on the protection of children. When preparing the Media Council’s supervisory plan, particular attention must be paid to child protection. The Authority also contributes in other ways to the creation of safe online and media spaces and to the development of media literacy, this being one of its public interest functions.
Infocommunications regulation and supervision
Regulation, authorisation, monitoring and registration of telephone, internet, electronic and other communications services, and the collection of regulatory fees. We make sure that the market is clean, transparent and competitive, with no instances of monopoly, guaranteeing a level playing field for service providers.
Supervision of postal services
Registration of postal operators and their services, supervision, control and reporting.
Supervision of trust services and electronic advertisements
The NMHH registers and continuously monitors both certified and non-certified trust service providers, examines their legal and technical compliance, applies the necessary sanctions, keeps and publishes registers of trust services, and ensures that these services are operated in a lawful, reliable and secure manner. In the case of electronic advertisements, the Authority’s main responsibility is to protect citizens from unsolicited commercial messages sent without prior consent to their personal electronic mailboxes.
Supervision of intermediary services
We monitor the compliance of hosting services, online platforms and other intermediary services with their legal obligations, in particular with the rules on tackling illegal content, transparent operation and complaint-handling.
Consumer protection and the protection of user interests
Protecting users of online and media content, infocommunication services, with particular regard to the most vulnerable group of users: children and minors. Advocacy, complaint-handling, investigating irregularities.
Supervised areas and areas/fields of expertise
The NMHH organises its own work and the organisation itself so as to employ the most competent and highly qualified professionals in the areas it supervises. Within the NMHH, the larger organisational units of a specific professional function are referred to as field of expertise. Work in a field of expertise means activities carried out by professionals specialising in a particular area, based on their specific legal, technical, economic or content-related expertise. The aim is to ensure that all decisions, analyses and regulatory measures are professionally sound, accurate and tailored to the characteristics of the area concerned.
Click on the icons below to learn more about the work of these fields of expertise. Work in these fields also entails some tasks and projects that are prioritised because of their importance or special character, which are therefore identified as separate areas within these fields. The links redirect to various sections of the website.