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

Date: 2018

The Venice Commission later criticised the design; the entry-into-force act was repealed in 2019 before the courts opened.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.

## People

- Viktor Orbán: https://factrail.ai/people/viktor-orban

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion
- Illiberal state capture in Hungary: https://factrail.ai/drivers/orban-illiberal-state-capture

## Sources

- https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/524bd8d4-33ba-4802-891f-d8959831ed5a_en?filename=2025+Rule+of+Law+Report+-+Country+Chapter+Hungary.pdf
- https://www.venice.coe.int/webforms/documents/default.aspx?pdffile=CDL-AD%282019%29004-e

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/hu-administrative-courts-act-2018