Law 139/2018 on the Spatial Planning Plan of Hungary and some of its priority areas.

This Law aims to determine the conditions of regional land use, the coordinated spatial order of technical infrastructure networks, for the country as a whole, as well as for certain priority areas, in order to effectively orient regional and economic development in terms of land use, with regard to sustainable development, and for the preservation of territorial, landscape, natural, ecological and cultural properties, values, national defence interests and traditional landscape use, as well as for the protection of resources. To this end, efficient and modern regional planning forms a continuous, regularly renewed, coordinated system with development strategies that create the territorial image of the country.
This Law, by taking into account the outstanding economic, social and cultural development of the country in general and individual regions, and the fact that the contribution of the finite and difficult to renew landscape, natural, environmental and built environment values to this development is undeniable - the more balanced territorial development of the country, the territorial and economic development, in order to preserve reasonable and economical land use and economic, social and environmental sustainability, in accordance with the land use principles laid down in the National Development and Territorial Development Concept, here lays down specific provisions created for above mentioned purposes.
The national land use categories are the following: a) forest management area; b) agricultural area,; water management area; d) settlement area. This text defines specific rules regarding agricultural area which is defined as land which use-category is established in the national and county spatial planning documents, which primarily includes arable land, areas classified as meadows and pastures, vineyards, orchards and garden areas, and on which the agricultural function is long-term its maintenance is justified; also special land-use areas: land-use category established in the county land-use plan, which includes open-pit mining areas larger than 5 ha, areas for the location of waste disposal facilities, as well as health, sports, transport and national defence areas; and settlement area: the land use category established in the national and county land use plans, which includes the inner area of the settlement, as well as the areas intended for development outside the inner area, with the exception of the areas belonging to the water management area and the special land use area. The county (local) land use categories are as follows: a) regions depicted without territorial limits: a) forest management area, b) agricultural area, c) water management area, d) settlement area, e) special land use area of at least 5 hectares. This text contains an Annex with full classification (coded and cadastral related, also nuclear power plants) list of all national and border line based or located settlements and spatial development projects that are considered subject to the provisions of this Law.