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Hungary adopts Act CXXX of 2018, creating a separate administrative-court branch under the justice minister

The Venice Commission later criticised the design; the entry-into-force act was repealed in 2019 before the courts opened. It is not the 2018 Seventh Amendment taken alone, not the 2012 judicial-retirement judgment, and not a personality. In the causal graph this event strengthens Judicial independence erosion (court capture), a driver that strengthens Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score — a worsening welfare path.

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The Venice Commission later criticised the design; the entry-into-force act was repealed in 2019 before the courts opened. This Fact is that dated statute. It is not the 2018 Seventh Amendment taken alone, not the 2012 judicial-retirement judgment, and not a personality. Official text sits in the National Legal Database; Verfassungsblog's contemporaneous file is the independent record.

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  • Viktor Orbán

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    Prime minister whose government or governing majority advanced the named measure. The institutional source ties the measure to the governing legal program under Orbán. Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 is stored only because contributions.size is NOT NULL — not a sourced magnitude. Attached by Pack6 land-now subset; the fact's own primary source documents the measure.

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  1. 1.2025 Rule of Law Report – Country Chapter on HungaryEuropean Commission · verified
  2. 2.Opinion on the law on administrative courts and on the law on the entry into force of the law on administrative courts and certain transitional rules, CDL-AD(2019)004Venice Commission · verified

Causal path

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  1. ActorViktor Orbán
  2. contributed toFactHungary adopts Act CXXX of 2018, creating a separate administrative-court branch under the justice minister
  3. strengthensDrivers (2)Judicial independence erosion (court capture)
  4. strengthensIndicatorRule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score

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Factrail. (2026). Hungary adopts Act CXXX of 2018, creating a separate administrative-court branch under the justice minister. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/hu-administrative-courts-act-2018

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Accessed 15 October 2026.

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