Amendment No. 4 | Doc. 13806 | 23 June 2015

Situation in Hungary following the adoption of Assembly Resolution 1941 (2013)

Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights

Origin - 2015 - Third part-session

In the draft resolution, paragraph 2.4, replace the sentence “Generally, the position of the Chairperson of the National Judicial Office – a quite unique institution in Europe – has changed and his powers are now limited;” with the following sentences:

“The Chairperson of the National Judicial Office still has the power to annul the outcome of a competition for the appointment of a judge, but this power has been somewhat limited by the statutory imposition of certain conditions that must be met for the Chairperson to exercise this power. There is still no guaranteed appeals process relating to the decisions of the Chairperson;”