Act CXII of 2011 On Informational Self-determination and Freedom of Information1 In order to ensure the right to informational self-determination and freedom of information, and to facilitate the implementation of the Fundamental Law, the National Assembly hereby adopts the following Act on the fundamental rules applicable in connection with the protection of personal data and the enforcement of the right to access and disseminate data of public interest and data public on grounds of public interest, as well as on the authority competent to control these rules pursuant to Article VI of the Fundamental Law: CHAPTER 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS 1. Object of the Act Section 1 The object of this Act is to define the fundamental rules applied in connection with controlling data with the aim of ensuring that the controllers respect the private sphere of natural persons and ensuring public transparency through the enforcement of rights to access and disseminate data of public interest and data public on grounds of public interest. 2. Scope of Effect of the Act Section 2 (1) The scope of the present Act encompasses all data control and data processing activities undertaken in Hungary relating to the data of natural persons, as well as data of public interest and data public on grounds of public interest. (2) The present Act shall apply to both data control and data processing fully or partially undertaken by automated devices, as well as manually. (3) Provisions set out in the present Act shall apply if the controller controlling personal data outside the territory of the European Union contracts a data processor with a seat, site, branch or address or place of residence within the territory of Hungary to perform data processing, except if this device serves data traffic exclusively within the territory of the European Union. Such controllers are obliged to designate a representative in Hungary. (4) Provisions set out in the present Act are not applicable to natural persons controlling data exclusively for their own personal purposes. (5) Concerning further use of public sector information, other rules can be laid down by law for the mode and conditions of data provision the consideration to be paid for it, as well as in respect of legal redress, to the rules defined within the scope of the present Act. 3. Definitions Section 3 For the purposes of the present Act: 1. Data subject: any natural person identified or directly or indirectly identifiable on the basis of personal data. 2. Personal data: data relating to the data subject, in particular the name and identification number of the data subject, as well as one or more factors specific to his physical, physiological, mental, economic, cultural or social identity as well as conclusions drawn from the data in regard to the data subject.