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Government Decree No. 415/2025 (XII. 23.) on the amendment of consumer protection–related government decrees with a view to ensuring a higher level of consumer protection introduces substantial changes in the field of consumer protection as of 2026.

In this article, we briefly summarise those amendments which will be perceptible to consumers in everyday life and may be of particular practical importance from 2026 onwards.

Government Decree No. 415/2025 (XII. 23.) amends a total of six government decrees related to consumer protection.
The objectives of the amendments are, on the one hand, to strengthen consumer protection and, on the other hand, to reduce the administrative burden on businesses, while also ensuring compliance with EU law and legal harmonisation.

What Do Carriers and Affected Businesses Need to Know?

On 23 December 2025, two new pieces of legislation affecting public roads and freight traffic were promulgated, both of which entered into force on 1 January 2026. The primary objective of the new regulatory framework is to ensure that international and domestic transit traffic is conducted along uniform, legally designated routes, primarily using high-capacity dual-carriageway (2×2 lane) road networks. The regulation serves both to enhance road safety and to reduce the burden on residential areas and secondary roads.

The two relevant legal instruments are: 

• Decree No. 44/2025 (XII. 23.) of the Ministry of Construction and Transport (ÉKM), aimed at defining the Hungarian sections of the transit route network; and

• Government Decree No. 439/2025 (XII. 23.), aimed at curbing freight traffic diverted from expressways.

Opinion leaders, commonly referred to as influencers, have become key actors in modern communication as a result of the rapid expansion of the internet and social media.
The development of digital technologies, the widespread use of smartphones, and the global proliferation of social media platforms—such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch—have fundamentally transformed users’ content consumption habits, as well as their entertainment and purchasing behaviours. As a consequence, influencer marketing has emerged as one of the most significant and fastest-growing tools of the modern advertising market.

By way of an interesting observation, it should be noted that, from a legal perspective, the category of influencers is not limited to natural persons acting as opinion leaders. An influencer may also include a CGI or deepfake character, an animal, or even an object.

The rapid growth of this phenomenon and the intermingling of personal and commercial content on social media platforms primarily justify the need for regulation in this field. For consumers—particularly audiences younger or older than the average user—it is often not clear whether an influencer’s recommendation is based on a paid collaboration, the provision of a gifted product, or another form of material interest.

The Hungarian Civil Code recognises the existence of a domestic partnership in two distinct forms. It sets forth the institution of marriage, which several legal scholars have described in elevated terms as an “emotional and economic alliance,” and it also provides for the possibility of living together without entering into marriage, in the form of a cohabitation (élettársi kapcsolat). The law strictly characterises this latter form as an obligational legal relationship, regulated under Title XXV of the Book on the Law of Contracts.

Under the Act on the Protection of Local Identity (Hötv.), more than fifty local governments have already enacted decrees. The law regulates settlement in municipalities in order to allow local governments to protect their traditions, social order, and values. The content of these decrees varies significantly, as the Hötv. grants municipalities a very broad scope of discretion. Due to the diversity of the regulations, let us take a closer look at exactly what authorizations municipalities have.

Do I have to attend my own wedding in person? Is it possible to get married online, remotely? Our article is about the interesting aspects of remote weddings, and marriages concluded by proxy.

In addition to emotional challenges, divorces can cause significant financial difficulties for families. In our article, we try to help you reduce costs with some practical advice.

While more and more people are living in a cohabitation without marriage and the number of marriages is constantly decreasing, there are still countless misconceptions about this form of relationship. In our article, we would like to draw attention to some significant differences between marriage and cohabitation.

The Code of Civil Procedure, which sets out the rules for the conduct of civil litigation, has undergone significant changes thanks to a comprehensive amendment proposal adopted at the end of 2020. The rules applied from 1 January 2021 have a major impact on litigation. This article reviews the amendments that have made a difference to the way family law litigation is conducted.

Relationships are never without problems: couples often fight over even minor issues such as housework, comments from each other's parents at Sunday lunch or, for example, the driving style of one of them. Fortunately, such conflicts last for a while and do not leave deep, incurable psychological scars.