President Áder requests constitutional review of waste management law

President Janos Áder has asked the Constitutional Court for a review of an amendment proposal to a law on waste management approved by parliament last week, the President’s Office said on Monday.

In his request, Áder said he considered it unconstitutional that under a provision in the bill producers would be stripped of their ownership rights of their production and industrial waste without receiving compensation.

The president said

the bill giving concession groups a discriminatory advantage was also unconstitutional.

Ader also voiced concerns over the bill not providing enough gaurantees for cases of concession businesses winding up their operations, which he said threatened citizens’ constitutional rights to a healthy environment.

As we wrote today, water management experts have removed more than 400 tonnes of waste contaminated with oil at a rainwater canal at Szigetszentmiklós that leads into the Ráckeve branch of the Danube in the outskirts of Budapest. Details HERE.

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