Operates a social platform, in Hungary

Ekertv. 13. § értesítés és eltávolítás, 2001. évi CVIII. törvény · Read the law's page

• If you are a service provider within Section 2 point 13 sub-points b) to d), act within 12 hours of a rights holder's notice that meets Section 13(2): block access to the information or remove it, tell the affected user in writing within three working days, and state on whose notice you acted (Section 13(4)).
• Make the information accessible again without delay when the affected user objects within eight days, and send the objection to the rights holder, unless a court or authority ordered the removal (Section 13(7)).
• Block or remove the information again within 12 hours of receiving a court's interim measure where the rights holder filed within 10 working days of the notice about the objection, and inform the affected user within one working day (Section 13(9)).

2001. évi CVIII. törvény (Ekertv.), 15/D. § (1) b)-c), 15/E. § (1), 15/F. § (1) és (5) és 15/G. § · Read the law's page

• It binds a video-sharing platform provider established in Hungary, or established in no Member State but with a parent, subsidiary or group company established in Hungary (Section 1(1a) and (1b)).
• Apply the measures and technical solutions of Section 15/F where content you deliver to the public violates human dignity and may incite hatred or violence against a community or its members, or may constitute a crime or a call to commit one, such as terrorism, incitement against a community, denial of the crimes of national socialist or communist systems, or sharing child pornography (Sections 15/D(1)(b) and (c) and 15/F(1)).
• Do not let those measures become prior control or a filtering of uploads that does not comply with the Act (Section 15/F(5)).
• Put the cases, requirements, measures and technical solutions of Section 15/D(1) into your general terms and conditions (Section 15/E(1)).
• Provide a transparent, effective and user-friendly mechanism through which users can report or flag content that violates Section 15/D(1) or complain about it, uploaders can declare whether a video contains a commercial communication, and users are told in plain language how those declarations, reports, flags and complaints are processed (Section 15/G).

2023. évi CIV. törvény, 1., 4., 9., 10., 12., 16. és 21/A. § · Read the law's page

• If you are an online platform provider established in Hungary and not exempt, pay the supervisory fee the President's decree sets, and report to the President by 31 May each year your net revenue from services under the Regulation for the preceding business year (Section 4).
• Supply the data the President orders by decision, and keep it accurate, current and verifiable, including data supplied periodically, continuously or by remote access (Section 12).
• Comply with an interim measure the President imposes, and with an order to end an infringement or to publish a notice or decision on your home page (Sections 9 and 16(7)).
• If you are an online intermediation service or online search engine provider, comply with Regulation (EU) 2019/1150, whose supervision Section 21/A gives to the President.

2023. évi CIV. törvény, 3. § (1) és (5), 21. § · Read the law's page

• Remove illegal content, or disable access to it, without undue delay once an order under Article 9 of the Regulation makes you aware of it, or, if you are a hosting provider established in Hungary, once you learn of it under Article 16 of the Regulation (Section 3(1)).

2023. évi CIV. törvény, 3. § (2)-(4) · Read the law's page

• Apply your terms and conditions under Article 14 of the Regulation, respect the fundamental rights Article 14(4) names, and decide complaints and act under Articles 16(5) and 17(1) of the Regulation in line with it; a service recipient may bring a civil action against you in Hungary over a breach (Section 3(3)).

2010. évi CIV. törvény a sajtószabadságról és a médiatartalmak alapvető szabályairól, 20/A. § · Read the law's page

• If you are an internet press publisher that lets readers comment on your press content, on an interface you edit or on an online platform another party operates, adopt a policy on the procedure you apply after publication against unlawful comments, apply an effective solution in line with it, and publish the policy (Section 20/A(1)).

2024. évi LXIX. törvény (Magyarország kiberbiztonságáról), 6. § · Read the law's page

• This duty reaches your service where you are an essential or important organization under Section 1: an organization under the sector annexes that qualifies as a medium-sized enterprise or larger under Hungary's SME Act, or exceeds the thresholds the Act sets for one, or a provider of an online marketplace, online search engine or social-media service platform whose main place of business activity is in Hungary, whether or not you are established there.
• Establish and operate a risk-management framework for the electronic information systems in your organization's possession, following a directly applicable EU legal act or, absent one, the decree of the minister responsible for informatics.
• Survey and register every electronic information system, central service and supporting system you use, appoint or designate the person responsible for the security of those systems, classify them into a security category, and apply protective measures proportionate to their risk.
• Issue an information-security policy for your users and the requirements it sets, and review it at least every two years.
• Report a cyber threat, near-incident or cybersecurity incident affecting your electronic information system to the competent cybersecurity incident-handling centre without delay, on the notification clock this jurisdiction's companion incident-notification row sets out.

2024. évi LXIX. törvény, 66. §; 418/2024. (XII. 23.) Korm. rendelet, 42. § és 77. § · Read the law's page

• This duty reaches your service on the same basis as this jurisdiction's companion risk-management row: an essential or important organization under Section 1, including a provider of an online marketplace, online search engine or social-media service platform whose main place of business activity is in Hungary, whether or not you are established there.
• Notify the national cybersecurity incident-handling center (Nemzeti Kiberbiztonsági Intézet, the NKI) of a cyber threat, near-incident or cybersecurity incident affecting your electronic information system: an initial notification without undue delay and in any case within 24 hours of becoming aware, an event notification without undue delay and in any case within 72 hours of becoming aware that updates that report and assesses the incident's severity and impact, and a final report no later than one month after the event notification.
• If you are a trust service provider, notify the center of a cybersecurity incident affecting your trust services without undue delay and in any case within 24 hours of becoming aware of it, in place of the event notification (Decree 418/2024, Section 77(4)).
• Submit an interim status report if the center asks for one, and, if the incident is still ongoing when the final report is due, a report on the results achieved so far followed by a final report within one month after you have finished handling the incident (Decree 418/2024, Section 77(1)).

2025. évi XCII. törvény a magánjogi tárgyú törvények módosításáról · Read the law's page

• These rules are enacted but do not apply yet: they apply to products placed on the market or put into service after 9 December 2026, and sections 6:550 to 6:559 of the Civil Code now in force keep governing earlier products (Sec. 95(6) of Act XCII of 2025; Sec. 55/A of Act CLXXVII of 2013).
• If you develop, make or have made a product, software included, or present yourself as its manufacturer by your name, trade mark or other distinguishing sign, you answer for damage a defect in it causes (Secs. 6:550(1)(a), 6:552 and 6:554(2)(a)).
• Keep supplying the software updates and upgrades needed to keep the product safe while it is within your control: a defect that arises after you put the product into circulation because of software, an update or upgrade, or a missing update needed to maintain safety is not excused (Sec. 6:557(5)).
• Treat safety-relevant cybersecurity requirements and any recall as part of what decides whether your product is defective (Sec. 6:555(2)(f) and (g)).
• Allow for what the product learns or acquires after it is placed on the market, because the effect of that ability is weighed in deciding whether it is defective (Sec. 6:555(2)(c)).
• Keep evidence you could produce if a court orders you to make it available: failing to do so presumes the product defective (Sec. 6:556(1)(a)).
• If you are outside the EU, the importer, your authorized representative or, failing them, the fulfilment service provider answers for the product in your place (Sec. 6:550(1)(c)).
• If you distribute a product or run an online platform that lets consumers contract with traders, identify the liable business established in the EU, or your own supplier, within one month of the injured person's request, or you answer for the damage (Sec. 6:550(5) and (6)).
• If you substantially modify a product outside the manufacturer's control and then distribute it or put it into service, you answer as its manufacturer (Sec. 6:550(4)).
• If you build a software component into a product, you have no recourse against a micro or small enterprise that made the software where you waived recourse in the contract (Sec. 6:551).
• Do not rely on a contract term to limit or exclude liability to the injured person, because it is void (Sec. 6:559).
• Free and open-source software developed or made available in the course of a non-commercial activity is outside the chapter (Sec. 6:559/B(2)(b)).