Act CXLIII of 2015 on public procurement.

The National Assembly of Hungary, in order to ensure the transparency and public controllability of the use of public funds and establish the conditions for fair competition in public procurement procedures, with the objective to facilitate the participation of local small and medium sized enterprises in public procurement procedures and the achievement of environmental and social objectives of the state, in line with provisions laid down in international conventions signed by Hungary and in directives of the European Union concerning public procurement, adopts the following Act on public procurement. This Act shall lay down the rules on public procurement procedures, concession procedures, and legal reviews related thereto. In public procurement procedures, contracting authorities shall be obliged to ensure and economic operators shall be obliged to respect the fairness, transparency and publicity of competition. A public procurement procedure shall be conducted when concluding a public contract, and a concession procedure shall be conducted when concluding a works or service concession.
Under this Act, the followings are obliged to conduct public procurement procedures: a) ministries, b) central purchasing bodies appointed by the Government, c) the state, all budgetary organs, public foundations, local governments, local and national self-governments of national minorities, associations of local governments and national minority self-governments, associations of local governments for regional development, regional development councils, d) legal persons specified in section 9 (1) h) to i), e) organisations with legal capacity that were established for reasons other than a specifically public interest activity of an industrial or commercial nature, or that carry out such activities to any extent, provided that one or more organisations mentioned in points a) to e), the National Assembly or the Government is capable, directly or indirectly, of exercising dominant influence over the organisation concerned, or the majority of its operations is financed by one or more such organisation (body).