HCLU is appealing to the Constitutional Court requesting to eliminate the rule passed in late October, 2006.

A new draft law titled ‘governmental structure changes related law modifications’ was presented by the Government on 3 Nov, 2006.

On 7 Nov, 2006 the Court of the Capitol obligated the Budapest Police Department (BPD) to let HCLU access the data requested in May, 2004.

HCLU examined statute-proposal number: T/1093 which is part of the health care reform plan submitted to Parliament by the Ministry of Health and found it rather disturbing on several points.

On 6 Oct, 2006 the European Union and the United States finally came to an agreement on sharing air passenger data.

The case was started against the Ministry of Finance after it denied access to data on public spending deficit of a hundred billion HUF.

HCLU was appalled to learn that the General Assembly of the Municipality passed a rule on 26 Oct, 2006, regulating the public space usage in the Capitol.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has declared that everyone has the right to access to states’ public interest data. This is the first precedent when an international court admits such a wide range of human rights.

The Worst EU Lobbying Award will be presented again this year. Winners will be announced in two separate categories at the end of the year.

HCLU has received an amount of 1 315 925 HUF from the 1% of taxpayers paid income tax - according to the Act CXXVI of 1996 On the Use of a Specified Amount of Personal Income Tax in Accordance with the Taxpayer's Instruction that allows taxpayers to allocate a certain percentage of their previous year's paid income tax to beneficiaries entitled to receive such funds.

HCLU won the case against the Minister of Justice and Law Enforcement according to the Budapest Capital Court's decision of first instance.

The Budapest Capital Court's competent council has changed the decision of the court of first instance and immediately released the two commentators of Tilos Radio.