d) shall provide recommendations relating to special and/or individual publication lists to be
published pursuant to this Act in connection with the activities of organs performing public tasks;
e) shall represent Hungary, in cooperation with the organs or persons specified in an Act, in the joint
data protection supervisory bodies of the European Union;
f) shall organise the conferences of internal data protection officers;
g) shall define the professional criteria for data protection auditing;
h) may conduct data protection audits at the request of controllers.
(5) The Authority shall be independent, subordinated only to Acts; it may not be given instructions
as to the performance of its tasks, and shall perform its tasks separately from other organs, free of
any outside influence. Tasks for the Authority may only be established by an Act.
26. Budget and management of the Authority
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(1) The Authority shall be a central budgetary organ with the powers of a budgetary chapter, and its
budget shall constitute an independent title within the budgetary chapter of Parliament.
(2) The main totals of expenditures and receipts of the Authority for the current budgetary year may
only be reduced by Parliament, with the exception of natural disasters endangering life and property
as defined in the Act on Public Finances, of temporary measures adopted to relieve the
consequences of such disasters, or of measures taken by the Authority within its own competence or
in its competence as directing organ.
(3)
(4) The remainder of receipts from the previous year may be used by the Authority in the following
years for the performance of its tasks.
27. President of the Authority
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(1) The Authority shall be headed by a President. The President of the Authority shall be appointed
by the President of the Republic at the proposal of the Prime Minister from among those Hungarian
nationals who have a law degree, the right to stand as a candidate in elections of Members of
Parliament, and at least ten years of professional experience in supervising proceedings related to
data protection or freedom of information or a Ph.D. degree in either of these fields.
(2) No one may be appointed President of the Authority who – in the four years preceding the
proposal for his or her appointment – had been a Member of Parliament, Member of the European
Parliament, President of the Republic, Member of the Government, state secretary, member of a
local government body, mayor, deputy mayor, Lord Mayor, Deputy Lord Mayor, president or vice
president of a county representative body, or member of a local, regional or national nationality
self-government, or officer or employee of a political party.
(3) The President of the Republic shall appoint the President of the Authority for nine years.
(4) After his or her appointment the President of the Authority shall take an oath before the
President of the Republic; the content of the oath shall be governed by the Act on the oath and
pledge of certain officers of public law.
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(1) The President of the Authority may not be member of a political party or engage in any political
activity, and his or her mandate shall be incompatible with any other state or local government
office or mandate.
(2) The President of the Authority may not pursue any other gainful occupation, nor accept