One Year of Driving on a Foreign Licence, Then Exchange - With No Test at All if the Issuing Country Signed Vienna or Geneva, and a Theory Test if It Did Not
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Lithuania on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
172 exceptions recorded across 63 countries · none match Lithuania to Hungary · Driving and licence exchange
Section 17(4) of Government Decree No 326/2011. (XII. 28.) gives a foreign licence one year from the start of the stay in Hungary, after which it must be exchanged on application for a Hungarian one. The exchange is called honositas, naturalisation of the licence, and section 10 point 11 defines it as issuing a Hungarian licence in place of one issued by a third-country authority. What it costs depends on a treaty. Section 18(2) provides that a licence meeting the conditions may be naturalised, or exchanged where it was issued in another EEA state, with no examination obligation at all - and section 17(2)(a) fixes which licences those are: ones issued by a country that acceded to the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic of 1968 or the Geneva Convention of 1949. A licence from a country outside both conventions goes through a theory test in traffic basics, without a course, under section 18(3), where a certified translation can be mapped to a Hungarian category; and through a practical test as well under section 18(3a) where it cannot. There are formal requirements that catch licences no treaty problem would: section 17(1) requires the document to carry the holder's photograph and signature, the issue and expiry dates, the number, the issuing authority, and the words driving licence in the issuing country's language together with the country's name or distinguishing sign - and requires the fields and entries to be in Latin letters or repeated in them. EEA licences are outside the exchange duty altogether while valid, under section 17(5), except that a holder of an EEA licence with no expiry date who moves their habitual residence to Hungary must initiate an exchange two years after establishing it.
At a glance
- How long a foreign licence lets you drive
- 1 year from the start of your stay in Hungary
Section 17(4) of Government Decree No 326/2011. (XII. 28.), subject to an international agreement providing otherwise.
- Exchange with no test
- Where the issuing country acceded to the 1968 Vienna Convention or the 1949 Geneva Convention
Sections 17(2)(a) and 18(2) of Government Decree No 326/2011. (XII. 28.). The same applies to an EEA licence, which is exchanged rather than naturalised.
- Exchange from outside both conventions
- A theory test in traffic basics, with no course
Section 18(3) of Government Decree No 326/2011. (XII. 28.), where a certified translation maps the entitlement to a Hungarian category.
- Where the entitlement cannot be mapped
- A practical driving test as well as the theory test
Section 18(3a) of Government Decree No 326/2011. (XII. 28.).
- EEA licences
- No exchange duty while the licence is valid
Section 17(5) of Government Decree No 326/2011. (XII. 28.). An EEA licence with no expiry date must be exchanged two years after the holder moves their habitual residence to Hungary.
- Script requirement
- Latin letters, or the entries repeated in them
The closing words of section 17(1) of Government Decree No 326/2011. (XII. 28.).
- A licence under two years old
- Treated as a novice licence
Section 8 of Government Decree No 326/2011. (XII. 28.), unless an international agreement provides otherwise.
Requirements
- A foreign licence that carries a photograph, a signature, dates, a number, the issuing authority and the words driving licence - in Latin letters or repeated in them
- A declaration that you had your habitual residence or home in the issuing country when the licence was issued
- A certified Hungarian translation, where the licence is not from a Vienna or Geneva party
Country-level policy
Section 25(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 makes Magyar Kozlony the official journal of Hungary, published as an electronic document on the government portal, and provides that its text shall be regarded as authentic. Section 25(2) then provides that a consolidated text - a text of a statute incorporating its amended and repealed provisions - may not be published in Magyar Kozlony at all. The consolidated text lives instead in the Nemzeti Jogszabalytar, which section 29(1) of the same Act describes as an electronic collection of legislation operating as an electronic public service, free to anyone, providing a surface for publishing both the promulgated texts and the consolidated texts by time-state. Nothing in either instrument calls it authentic. Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) fills in the obligations: section 2(1) requires every statute in force to be published there in consolidated form with its past time-states back to 1 January 2010 and its next three; section 2(3) requires publication within three working days of promulgation. So the consolidation is a legal duty discharged on a statutory deadline by the state's own publisher, and it is still not the authentic text, because section 25(1) reserves that word for a journal that section 25(2) forbids from carrying a consolidation. The decree also carries a smaller discrepancy worth knowing: section 8(1) says the database operates on the www.njt.hu website, and the site that answers today is njt.jog.gov.hu.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Lithuania
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«Nemzetközi szerződés eltérő rendelkezése hiányában az (1) bekezdésben, valamint a (2) bekezdés a) és d) pontjában meghatározott külföldi vezetői engedély a Magyarország területén történő tartózkodás kezdetétől számított egy évig jogosít járművezetésre, ezt követően a külföldi vezetői engedélyt kérelemre magyar vezetői engedélyre kell honosítani.»Our translation - not official
In the absence of a different provision in an international agreement, the foreign driving licence specified in paragraph (1) and in paragraph (2)(a) and (d) entitles the holder to drive for one year counted from the start of the stay in the territory of Hungary, after which the foreign driving licence shall, on application, be naturalised into a Hungarian driving licence.
Known to be out of date. The National Legislation Database dates this time-state 2026. 10. 01. - 2026. 11. 29., so the text changes on 30 November 2026. The amending instrument was not read.
One year from the start of the stay, not from the date of the licence and not from registering an address.
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The Hungarian state's own electronic collection of legislation, operated for the Minister of Justice by Magyar Kozlony Lap- es Konyvkiado Kft. under a public service contract, and the only place a consolidated Hungarian statute is published at all. Section 29(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 defines it; Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) sets the duties. Section 2(1) of the decree requires every statute in force to appear in consolidated form with all of its past time-states back to 1 January 2010 and its next three; section 2(3) requires the consolidation within three working days of promulgation. **Read the host carefully: section 8(1) of the decree still names www.njt.hu and the service that answers is njt.jog.gov.hu.** The address shape is njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/{YEAR}-{NUMBER}-00-00 for an Act, using the Act's Roman numeral converted to Arabic - Act XC of 2023 is 2023-90-00-00, Act LV of 1993 is 1993-55-00-00, Act CXVII of 1995 is 1995-117-00-00 - and njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/{YEAR}-{NUMBER}-20-22 for a government decree, so Government Decree No 35/2024. (II. 29.) is 2024-35-20-22. The decisive thing on every page is the line under the title: Hatalyos: 2026. 10. 01. - 2026. 12. 31. By the definition of a time-state in section 1 of the decree, the closing date is the day before the text changes, so a page with a closing date is telling the reader that the law will be different on the day after it, and Nem ismert means no change is yet scheduled. Footnotes at the foot of the text name, for every amended paragraph, the Act or decree that put the current words there, which is the only machine-readable amendment history in the corpus.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Nothing published here is the authentic text and Hungarian law says so in terms.** Section 25(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 confers authenticity on the Magyar Kozlony and section 25(2) forbids a consolidated text from being published in the Magyar Kozlony at all, so the authentic text and the current text are in two different places by design and the consolidation is never the authentic one. Neither Act CXXX of 2010 nor Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) uses the word hiteles of this database anywhere. The practical limitation that follows is narrower than it sounds and bites hard in one place: **an amending provision disappears from here once it has done its work.** Section 12(2) of Act CXXX of 2010 makes an amending provision lose force the day after it takes effect, and the consolidated text of the amending Act then prints only a footnote saying so, stripping the subtitle headings with it. Act XC of 2023 as served here therefore contains neither section 350 nor section 351, the two provisions that repealed the statute it replaced; Act LXXXIV of 2024 as served here contains neither section 135, which removed the 500,000 EUR property option from the guest investor programme, nor the subtitle that would say which commencement date applied to it. **For what was enacted, and for when, read the Magyar Kozlony issue.** It also cannot be cited for anything kept outside the statute book, and the 2023 immigration Act pushes a great deal out there: the government decree naming which nationalities may hold a guest worker permit or a National Card, the ministerial communication fixing the annual permit number under sections 28(4) and 30(4), the communication listing excluded occupations, the communication fixing the EU Blue Card salary under section 48(7) of Government Decree No 35/2024. (II. 29.), and the registers of preferential employers and qualified temporary-work agencies. Nor is it the place to read a figure a statute re-indexes: section 25(3) of Act CXXX of 2019 prints a health service contribution of 7,710 forints set in 2020 and in the same breath provides that the rate in force is published each year by the National Tax and Customs Administration on its own website.
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«Az (1) bekezdésben meghatározott feltételeknek megfelelő külföldi vezetői engedély vizsgakötelezettség nélkül honosítható, illetve – más EGT-államban kiállított vezetői engedély esetén – cserélhető.»Our translation - not official
A foreign driving licence meeting the conditions laid down in paragraph (1) may be naturalised, or - in the case of a driving licence issued in another EEA state - exchanged, with no examination obligation.
Known to be out of date. The National Legislation Database dates this time-state 2026. 10. 01. - 2026. 11. 29., so the text changes on 30 November 2026. The amending instrument was not read.
The dividing line in the whole topic, and it is drawn by which convention the issuing state signed rather than by how similar its driving rules are.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The Hungarian state's own electronic collection of legislation, operated for the Minister of Justice by Magyar Kozlony Lap- es Konyvkiado Kft. under a public service contract, and the only place a consolidated Hungarian statute is published at all. Section 29(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 defines it; Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) sets the duties. Section 2(1) of the decree requires every statute in force to appear in consolidated form with all of its past time-states back to 1 January 2010 and its next three; section 2(3) requires the consolidation within three working days of promulgation. **Read the host carefully: section 8(1) of the decree still names www.njt.hu and the service that answers is njt.jog.gov.hu.** The address shape is njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/{YEAR}-{NUMBER}-00-00 for an Act, using the Act's Roman numeral converted to Arabic - Act XC of 2023 is 2023-90-00-00, Act LV of 1993 is 1993-55-00-00, Act CXVII of 1995 is 1995-117-00-00 - and njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/{YEAR}-{NUMBER}-20-22 for a government decree, so Government Decree No 35/2024. (II. 29.) is 2024-35-20-22. The decisive thing on every page is the line under the title: Hatalyos: 2026. 10. 01. - 2026. 12. 31. By the definition of a time-state in section 1 of the decree, the closing date is the day before the text changes, so a page with a closing date is telling the reader that the law will be different on the day after it, and Nem ismert means no change is yet scheduled. Footnotes at the foot of the text name, for every amended paragraph, the Act or decree that put the current words there, which is the only machine-readable amendment history in the corpus.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Nothing published here is the authentic text and Hungarian law says so in terms.** Section 25(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 confers authenticity on the Magyar Kozlony and section 25(2) forbids a consolidated text from being published in the Magyar Kozlony at all, so the authentic text and the current text are in two different places by design and the consolidation is never the authentic one. Neither Act CXXX of 2010 nor Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) uses the word hiteles of this database anywhere. The practical limitation that follows is narrower than it sounds and bites hard in one place: **an amending provision disappears from here once it has done its work.** Section 12(2) of Act CXXX of 2010 makes an amending provision lose force the day after it takes effect, and the consolidated text of the amending Act then prints only a footnote saying so, stripping the subtitle headings with it. Act XC of 2023 as served here therefore contains neither section 350 nor section 351, the two provisions that repealed the statute it replaced; Act LXXXIV of 2024 as served here contains neither section 135, which removed the 500,000 EUR property option from the guest investor programme, nor the subtitle that would say which commencement date applied to it. **For what was enacted, and for when, read the Magyar Kozlony issue.** It also cannot be cited for anything kept outside the statute book, and the 2023 immigration Act pushes a great deal out there: the government decree naming which nationalities may hold a guest worker permit or a National Card, the ministerial communication fixing the annual permit number under sections 28(4) and 30(4), the communication listing excluded occupations, the communication fixing the EU Blue Card salary under section 48(7) of Government Decree No 35/2024. (II. 29.), and the registers of preferential employers and qualified temporary-work agencies. Nor is it the place to read a figure a statute re-indexes: section 25(3) of Act CXXX of 2019 prints a health service contribution of 7,710 forints set in 2020 and in the same breath provides that the rate in force is published each year by the National Tax and Customs Administration on its own website.
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«17. § (1)89 A külföldi hatóság által kiállított és érvényes vezetői engedély – kivéve az ideiglenes jelleggel vagy a járművezetés tanulására kiadott okmányokat – Magyarország területén akkor jogosít vezetésre, ha tartalmazza: a) az engedély jogosítottjának azonosítására alkalmas adatokat, b) a jogosított fényképét és aláírását, c) az engedély kiadásának és érvényessége lejártának időpontját, d) az engedély számát, e) a kiadó hatóság nevét vagy pecsétjét, és f) a „vezetői engedély” címfeliratot az engedélyt kibocsátó ország nemzeti nyelvén (nemzeti nyelvein), valamint az engedélyt kiadó ország nevét, illetve megkülönböztető államjelzését, feltéve, hogy a rovatok és a bejegyzések latin betűkkel történtek vagy ebben a formában meg vannak ismételve.»Our translation - not official
Section 17 (1) A valid driving licence issued by a foreign authority - except documents issued on a temporary basis or for learning to drive - entitles the holder to drive in the territory of Hungary if it contains: a) data suitable for identifying the holder of the licence, b) the photograph and signature of the holder, c) the date of issue and the date of expiry of the licence, d) the number of the licence, e) the name or stamp of the issuing authority, and f) the heading driving licence in the national language or languages of the issuing country, and the name of the issuing country or its distinguishing sign, provided that the fields and the entries are in Latin letters or are repeated in that form.
Known to be out of date. The National Legislation Database dates this time-state 2026. 10. 01. - 2026. 11. 29., so the text changes on 30 November 2026. The amending instrument was not read.
Six formal requirements and a script rule, any one of which can disqualify a licence that is perfectly valid where it was issued.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The Hungarian state's own electronic collection of legislation, operated for the Minister of Justice by Magyar Kozlony Lap- es Konyvkiado Kft. under a public service contract, and the only place a consolidated Hungarian statute is published at all. Section 29(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 defines it; Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) sets the duties. Section 2(1) of the decree requires every statute in force to appear in consolidated form with all of its past time-states back to 1 January 2010 and its next three; section 2(3) requires the consolidation within three working days of promulgation. **Read the host carefully: section 8(1) of the decree still names www.njt.hu and the service that answers is njt.jog.gov.hu.** The address shape is njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/{YEAR}-{NUMBER}-00-00 for an Act, using the Act's Roman numeral converted to Arabic - Act XC of 2023 is 2023-90-00-00, Act LV of 1993 is 1993-55-00-00, Act CXVII of 1995 is 1995-117-00-00 - and njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/{YEAR}-{NUMBER}-20-22 for a government decree, so Government Decree No 35/2024. (II. 29.) is 2024-35-20-22. The decisive thing on every page is the line under the title: Hatalyos: 2026. 10. 01. - 2026. 12. 31. By the definition of a time-state in section 1 of the decree, the closing date is the day before the text changes, so a page with a closing date is telling the reader that the law will be different on the day after it, and Nem ismert means no change is yet scheduled. Footnotes at the foot of the text name, for every amended paragraph, the Act or decree that put the current words there, which is the only machine-readable amendment history in the corpus.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Nothing published here is the authentic text and Hungarian law says so in terms.** Section 25(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 confers authenticity on the Magyar Kozlony and section 25(2) forbids a consolidated text from being published in the Magyar Kozlony at all, so the authentic text and the current text are in two different places by design and the consolidation is never the authentic one. Neither Act CXXX of 2010 nor Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) uses the word hiteles of this database anywhere. The practical limitation that follows is narrower than it sounds and bites hard in one place: **an amending provision disappears from here once it has done its work.** Section 12(2) of Act CXXX of 2010 makes an amending provision lose force the day after it takes effect, and the consolidated text of the amending Act then prints only a footnote saying so, stripping the subtitle headings with it. Act XC of 2023 as served here therefore contains neither section 350 nor section 351, the two provisions that repealed the statute it replaced; Act LXXXIV of 2024 as served here contains neither section 135, which removed the 500,000 EUR property option from the guest investor programme, nor the subtitle that would say which commencement date applied to it. **For what was enacted, and for when, read the Magyar Kozlony issue.** It also cannot be cited for anything kept outside the statute book, and the 2023 immigration Act pushes a great deal out there: the government decree naming which nationalities may hold a guest worker permit or a National Card, the ministerial communication fixing the annual permit number under sections 28(4) and 30(4), the communication listing excluded occupations, the communication fixing the EU Blue Card salary under section 48(7) of Government Decree No 35/2024. (II. 29.), and the registers of preferential employers and qualified temporary-work agencies. Nor is it the place to read a figure a statute re-indexes: section 25(3) of Act CXXX of 2019 prints a health service contribution of 7,710 forints set in 2020 and in the same breath provides that the rate in force is published each year by the National Tax and Customs Administration on its own website.
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«(3)102 Tanfolyammentes közlekedési alapismeretekből tett sikeres elméleti vizsgát követően kerülhet sor a vezetői engedély honosítására, ha a) a külföldi vezetői engedélyt nem a 17\. § (2) bekezdés a) vagy b) pontjában meghatározott országban állították ki és b) a külföldi vezetői engedélyről készült hiteles fordítás alapján a vezetési jogosultság tartalma megfeleltethető az 1\. és 2. mellékletben meghatározott valamely nemzetközi kategória tartalmának. (3a)103 Tanfolyammentes gyakorlati vezetési és közlekedési alapismeretekből tett sikeres vizsgát követően kerülhet sor a vezetői engedély honosítására, ha a) a külföldi vezetői engedélyt nem a 17\. § (2) bekezdés a) vagy b) pontjában meghatározott országban állították ki és b) a külföldi vezetői engedélyről készült hiteles fordítás alapján sem állapítható meg a vezetési jogosultság tartalma, vagy az nem feleltethető meg az 1. és a 2»Our translation - not official
(3) The driving licence may be naturalised following a successful theory examination in traffic basics taken without a course, if a) the foreign driving licence was not issued in a country specified in section 17(2)(a) or (b) and b) on the basis of a certified translation of the foreign driving licence the content of the driving entitlement can be matched to the content of one of the international categories specified in annexes 1 and 2. (3a) The driving licence may be naturalised following a successful practical driving examination and examination in traffic basics taken without a course, if a) the foreign driving licence was not issued in a country specified in section 17(2)(a) or (b) and b) on the basis of a certified translation of the foreign driving licence the content of the driving entitlement cannot be established either, or cannot be matched to
Known to be out of date. The National Legislation Database dates this time-state 2026. 10. 01. - 2026. 11. 29., so the text changes on 30 November 2026. The amending instrument was not read.
Two escalating tiers for a licence from outside the conventions. The quotation ends where the stored text breaks across the annex reference.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The Hungarian state's own electronic collection of legislation, operated for the Minister of Justice by Magyar Kozlony Lap- es Konyvkiado Kft. under a public service contract, and the only place a consolidated Hungarian statute is published at all. Section 29(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 defines it; Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) sets the duties. Section 2(1) of the decree requires every statute in force to appear in consolidated form with all of its past time-states back to 1 January 2010 and its next three; section 2(3) requires the consolidation within three working days of promulgation. **Read the host carefully: section 8(1) of the decree still names www.njt.hu and the service that answers is njt.jog.gov.hu.** The address shape is njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/{YEAR}-{NUMBER}-00-00 for an Act, using the Act's Roman numeral converted to Arabic - Act XC of 2023 is 2023-90-00-00, Act LV of 1993 is 1993-55-00-00, Act CXVII of 1995 is 1995-117-00-00 - and njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/{YEAR}-{NUMBER}-20-22 for a government decree, so Government Decree No 35/2024. (II. 29.) is 2024-35-20-22. The decisive thing on every page is the line under the title: Hatalyos: 2026. 10. 01. - 2026. 12. 31. By the definition of a time-state in section 1 of the decree, the closing date is the day before the text changes, so a page with a closing date is telling the reader that the law will be different on the day after it, and Nem ismert means no change is yet scheduled. Footnotes at the foot of the text name, for every amended paragraph, the Act or decree that put the current words there, which is the only machine-readable amendment history in the corpus.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Nothing published here is the authentic text and Hungarian law says so in terms.** Section 25(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 confers authenticity on the Magyar Kozlony and section 25(2) forbids a consolidated text from being published in the Magyar Kozlony at all, so the authentic text and the current text are in two different places by design and the consolidation is never the authentic one. Neither Act CXXX of 2010 nor Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) uses the word hiteles of this database anywhere. The practical limitation that follows is narrower than it sounds and bites hard in one place: **an amending provision disappears from here once it has done its work.** Section 12(2) of Act CXXX of 2010 makes an amending provision lose force the day after it takes effect, and the consolidated text of the amending Act then prints only a footnote saying so, stripping the subtitle headings with it. Act XC of 2023 as served here therefore contains neither section 350 nor section 351, the two provisions that repealed the statute it replaced; Act LXXXIV of 2024 as served here contains neither section 135, which removed the 500,000 EUR property option from the guest investor programme, nor the subtitle that would say which commencement date applied to it. **For what was enacted, and for when, read the Magyar Kozlony issue.** It also cannot be cited for anything kept outside the statute book, and the 2023 immigration Act pushes a great deal out there: the government decree naming which nationalities may hold a guest worker permit or a National Card, the ministerial communication fixing the annual permit number under sections 28(4) and 30(4), the communication listing excluded occupations, the communication fixing the EU Blue Card salary under section 48(7) of Government Decree No 35/2024. (II. 29.), and the registers of preferential employers and qualified temporary-work agencies. Nor is it the place to read a figure a statute re-indexes: section 25(3) of Act CXXX of 2019 prints a health service contribution of 7,710 forints set in 2020 and in the same breath provides that the rate in force is published each year by the National Tax and Customs Administration on its own website.
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«18. § (1)99 A közlekedési igazgatási eljárásban a külföldi hatóság által kiállított, a 17\. § (2) bekezdés a) vagy b) pontjában, valamint (2a) bekezdés a)–c) pontjában meghatározottaknak megfelelő vezetői engedély – kivéve az ideiglenes jelleggel vagy a járművezetés tanulására kiadott okmányokat – akkor tekinthető érvényesnek, ha: a) a vezetői engedély jogosítottja nyilatkozik arról, hogy a külföldi vezetői engedély kiadásakor a kiállító országban rendelkezett szokásos tartózkodási hellyel vagy lakóhellyel; b)100 a külföldi vezetői engedély jogosítottja a magyar vezetői engedély kiadására irányuló eljárás időpontjában megfelel az e rendeletben meghatározott életkori és jártassági feltételeknek.»Our translation - not official
Section 18 (1) In road administration proceedings a driving licence issued by a foreign authority which meets the requirements set out in section 17(2)(a) or (b) or (2a)(a) to (c) - except documents issued on a temporary basis or for learning to drive - may be regarded as valid if: a) the holder of the driving licence declares that at the time the foreign driving licence was issued they had their habitual residence or home in the issuing country; b) the holder of the foreign driving licence meets, at the time of the procedure for issuing the Hungarian driving licence, the age and proficiency conditions laid down in this Decree.
Known to be out of date. The National Legislation Database dates this time-state 2026. 10. 01. - 2026. 11. 29., so the text changes on 30 November 2026. The amending instrument was not read.
A declaration about where the holder lived when the licence was issued, which is the anti-licence-tourism rule.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The Hungarian state's own electronic collection of legislation, operated for the Minister of Justice by Magyar Kozlony Lap- es Konyvkiado Kft. under a public service contract, and the only place a consolidated Hungarian statute is published at all. Section 29(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 defines it; Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) sets the duties. Section 2(1) of the decree requires every statute in force to appear in consolidated form with all of its past time-states back to 1 January 2010 and its next three; section 2(3) requires the consolidation within three working days of promulgation. **Read the host carefully: section 8(1) of the decree still names www.njt.hu and the service that answers is njt.jog.gov.hu.** The address shape is njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/{YEAR}-{NUMBER}-00-00 for an Act, using the Act's Roman numeral converted to Arabic - Act XC of 2023 is 2023-90-00-00, Act LV of 1993 is 1993-55-00-00, Act CXVII of 1995 is 1995-117-00-00 - and njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/{YEAR}-{NUMBER}-20-22 for a government decree, so Government Decree No 35/2024. (II. 29.) is 2024-35-20-22. The decisive thing on every page is the line under the title: Hatalyos: 2026. 10. 01. - 2026. 12. 31. By the definition of a time-state in section 1 of the decree, the closing date is the day before the text changes, so a page with a closing date is telling the reader that the law will be different on the day after it, and Nem ismert means no change is yet scheduled. Footnotes at the foot of the text name, for every amended paragraph, the Act or decree that put the current words there, which is the only machine-readable amendment history in the corpus.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Nothing published here is the authentic text and Hungarian law says so in terms.** Section 25(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 confers authenticity on the Magyar Kozlony and section 25(2) forbids a consolidated text from being published in the Magyar Kozlony at all, so the authentic text and the current text are in two different places by design and the consolidation is never the authentic one. Neither Act CXXX of 2010 nor Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) uses the word hiteles of this database anywhere. The practical limitation that follows is narrower than it sounds and bites hard in one place: **an amending provision disappears from here once it has done its work.** Section 12(2) of Act CXXX of 2010 makes an amending provision lose force the day after it takes effect, and the consolidated text of the amending Act then prints only a footnote saying so, stripping the subtitle headings with it. Act XC of 2023 as served here therefore contains neither section 350 nor section 351, the two provisions that repealed the statute it replaced; Act LXXXIV of 2024 as served here contains neither section 135, which removed the 500,000 EUR property option from the guest investor programme, nor the subtitle that would say which commencement date applied to it. **For what was enacted, and for when, read the Magyar Kozlony issue.** It also cannot be cited for anything kept outside the statute book, and the 2023 immigration Act pushes a great deal out there: the government decree naming which nationalities may hold a guest worker permit or a National Card, the ministerial communication fixing the annual permit number under sections 28(4) and 30(4), the communication listing excluded occupations, the communication fixing the EU Blue Card salary under section 48(7) of Government Decree No 35/2024. (II. 29.), and the registers of preferential employers and qualified temporary-work agencies. Nor is it the place to read a figure a statute re-indexes: section 25(3) of Act CXXX of 2019 prints a health service contribution of 7,710 forints set in 2020 and in the same breath provides that the rate in force is published each year by the National Tax and Customs Administration on its own website.
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Practical notes
No fee is stated here. The charges for the procedure are in a separate ministerial decree that was not read.
The National Legislation Database dates this text's time-state 2026. 10. 01. to 2026. 11. 29., so the decree changes on 30 November 2026 and the amending instrument was not read.
Whether a particular country acceded to the Vienna Convention of 1968 or the Geneva Convention of 1949 is a fact about that country and is not recorded here. The decree names the conventions and keeps no list.
- consolidates326/2011. (XII. 28.) Korm. rendelet a közúti közlekedési igazgatási feladatokról, a közúti közlekedési okmányok kiadásáról és visszavonásáról
Nemzeti Jogszabalytar, Igazsagugyi Miniszterium · consolidated to 2026-10-01
Known to be out of date. The National Legislation Database dates this time-state 2026. 10. 01. - 2026. 11. 29., so the text changes on 30 November 2026. The amending instrument was not read.
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The Hungarian state's own electronic collection of legislation, operated for the Minister of Justice by Magyar Kozlony Lap- es Konyvkiado Kft. under a public service contract, and the only place a consolidated Hungarian statute is published at all. Section 29(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 defines it; Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) sets the duties. Section 2(1) of the decree requires every statute in force to appear in consolidated form with all of its past time-states back to 1 January 2010 and its next three; section 2(3) requires the consolidation within three working days of promulgation. **Read the host carefully: section 8(1) of the decree still names www.njt.hu and the service that answers is njt.jog.gov.hu.** The address shape is njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/{YEAR}-{NUMBER}-00-00 for an Act, using the Act's Roman numeral converted to Arabic - Act XC of 2023 is 2023-90-00-00, Act LV of 1993 is 1993-55-00-00, Act CXVII of 1995 is 1995-117-00-00 - and njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/{YEAR}-{NUMBER}-20-22 for a government decree, so Government Decree No 35/2024. (II. 29.) is 2024-35-20-22. The decisive thing on every page is the line under the title: Hatalyos: 2026. 10. 01. - 2026. 12. 31. By the definition of a time-state in section 1 of the decree, the closing date is the day before the text changes, so a page with a closing date is telling the reader that the law will be different on the day after it, and Nem ismert means no change is yet scheduled. Footnotes at the foot of the text name, for every amended paragraph, the Act or decree that put the current words there, which is the only machine-readable amendment history in the corpus.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Nothing published here is the authentic text and Hungarian law says so in terms.** Section 25(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 confers authenticity on the Magyar Kozlony and section 25(2) forbids a consolidated text from being published in the Magyar Kozlony at all, so the authentic text and the current text are in two different places by design and the consolidation is never the authentic one. Neither Act CXXX of 2010 nor Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) uses the word hiteles of this database anywhere. The practical limitation that follows is narrower than it sounds and bites hard in one place: **an amending provision disappears from here once it has done its work.** Section 12(2) of Act CXXX of 2010 makes an amending provision lose force the day after it takes effect, and the consolidated text of the amending Act then prints only a footnote saying so, stripping the subtitle headings with it. Act XC of 2023 as served here therefore contains neither section 350 nor section 351, the two provisions that repealed the statute it replaced; Act LXXXIV of 2024 as served here contains neither section 135, which removed the 500,000 EUR property option from the guest investor programme, nor the subtitle that would say which commencement date applied to it. **For what was enacted, and for when, read the Magyar Kozlony issue.** It also cannot be cited for anything kept outside the statute book, and the 2023 immigration Act pushes a great deal out there: the government decree naming which nationalities may hold a guest worker permit or a National Card, the ministerial communication fixing the annual permit number under sections 28(4) and 30(4), the communication listing excluded occupations, the communication fixing the EU Blue Card salary under section 48(7) of Government Decree No 35/2024. (II. 29.), and the registers of preferential employers and qualified temporary-work agencies. Nor is it the place to read a figure a statute re-indexes: section 25(3) of Act CXXX of 2019 prints a health service contribution of 7,710 forints set in 2020 and in the same breath provides that the rate in force is published each year by the National Tax and Customs Administration on its own website.
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