Current domestic legislation does not allow American soldiers stationed in Hungary to have Hungarian cars on their family cars registration number can get – the topic was dissected earlier by HVG. So American soldiers serving at the Papal Air Base could not put Hungarian license plates on their family cars.
The result of this was that for more than three years now, American soldiers have been forced to apply for a temporary license for their cars again and again, at a very high price.
A Hungarian Gazette however, the decree published in its latest issue amends the previous decree on additional procedural rules applicable in administrative authority cases concerning road traffic. With this, among other things, it rewrites the conditions of the provisions regarding motor vehicles imported from abroad, which adds an important point from the point of view of American-Hungarian diplomatic relations – writes the 24.hu.
According to the portal’s interpretation, this may finally end the license plate tension between the two countries that has been going on for years.
The new regulation, signed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, will enter into force in 15 days.
“In the vehicle naturalization procedure, on the registration of foreign armed forces staying on the territory of Hungary for service purposes and international military commands established on the territory of Hungary, their staff serving in Hungary, foreign armed forces staying on the territory of Hungary for service purposes, and international military commands established on the territory of Hungary and their staff , their relatives defined in the Act on certain provisions related to their legal status, as well as the vehicles used by persons residing in Hungary for service purposes and enjoying other privileges and immunities based on diplomatic or international law and their relatives, in paragraphs (1) and (1a), and The provisions of the third sentence of paragraph (2) shall not be applied.
(5) In the vehicle naturalization procedure, the motor vehicle registered in a state that is not a party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, which is in accordance with Council Regulation 1186/2009/EC of November 16, 2009 on the establishment of the Community system of customs exemptions, 3-11. is considered personal property belonging to a natural person, the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (1a) shall not be applied.”
can be read in the gazette.
Meanwhile, János Lázár also amended:
The Minister of Construction and Transport amended the KöHÉM decree on the technical conditions for putting road vehicles into service and keeping them in service so that the the rules for the individual placing of a community vehicle on the market shall be applied to the licensing and subsequent periodic technical review procedures of vehicles used by persons residing in Hungary for service purposes and enjoying other privileges and immunities based on diplomatic or international law and their relatives, as long as the owner or operator’s right to do so is proven 24.hu reported about it.
Source: www.vezess.hu
