Ministry of Transport, Communication and Water Management (Hungary)

In July 1990, the Ministry of Transport, Communication and Water assumed the responsibility of water affairs, taking it from the Ministry of Environment and Water, which changed its name to Ministry for Environment Protection and kept that name for several months. It later became known as the Ministry of Environment and Regional Development. In 1998 the Ministry of Environment Protection was established after another reorganization occurred in the governmental ministries.

In 2002 the Ministry went through a transformation again as water affairs were transferred from the Ministry for Transport, Communication and Water to the Ministry of Environment and Water.

At present the Ministry is a central governing body for environment and nature protection and water affairs. The Ministry carries out the special fields’ sectoral, expert management and regulatory tasks in the areas of environment and nature protection, water management and meteorology. The Ministry’s responsibilities include policy development, tasks connected to governmental work and the continuation of the ever far-reaching international collaboration. The Ministry’s field institutions – environmental and water authorities, national park managements – attend to the first degree tasks of the authorities. Environment and nature protection second degree tasks of the authorities are carried out by the National Environment and Water Authority.