On 31 March 2020, the Hungarian Government issued a decree that overrode certain provisions of the Hungarian Code of Criminal Procedure given the state of danger declared by the Government due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  Further amendments followed on 8 May after the adoption of Government Decree 188/2020. (V. 7.). These further amendments concern e.g. the following areas of the Hungarian criminal procedure: 

• presence at procedural acts, 
•  access to case files, 
•  the public nature of trials, 
•  the possibility to issue penal orders, 
•  suspension of procedures. 

For a detailed presentation of all the changes, see the information note prepared by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee here. 

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