Law on farming irrigation (CXIII of 2019).

The Hungarian Parliament enacts the Law on farming irrigation in order to protect natural resources, strengthen the adaptability of agriculture, spread irrigation for farming, and create irrigation communities.
In order to continue irrigation for farming purposes, the holder of the water rights license of the water facility is entitled to an irrigation easement, on the basis of which the owner and user of the serving property is obliged to tolerate that the agricultural producer carrying out irrigation farming on his property establishes a linear water facility for the irrigation necessary for the continuation of his agricultural activity and put it into operation, carry out the necessary water works, and reroute the irrigation equipment, if it does not preclude the proper use of the property. The irrigation easement belongs to the licensee specified in the water rights license as long as he continues his activities based on the water rights license. The owner of the property is entitled to compensation corresponding to the extent of the restriction according to Section 2 (1). The decision of the water authority provides for compensation to the owner of the property. The amount of the compensation shall be reimbursed by the water rights licensee to the owner of the property. The irrigation administration body designates an irrigation development area, taking into account the irrigation clusters connected to active surface water bodies, the watershed management planning subunits, the soil and hydrogeological features, the relief and hydrographic conditions and the economics of irrigation, the water facility for irrigation purposes supplied with surface water according to its area of influence. A plot of land can only be part of one irrigation development area. The irrigation administration body prepares an irrigation development plan for the irrigation development area, which becomes valid with the approval of the authority specified in the decree issued for the implementation of this Law. Irrigation development areas are mid-level planning unit designated ex officio by the irrigation administrative body, which may include several irrigation districts. An irrigation district is the area defined in the decision on the recognition of the irrigation community, which includes the outlying parcels of land used for the operation of the irrigation community and intended to be irrigated by the members of the irrigation community. Agricultural production in terms of irrigation provisions here prescribed is regarding activities such as crop cultivation, horticulture, propagating material production, animal husbandry, apiculture, fish farming, mixed farming with additional relevant activities. The designation of the irrigation development area and the irrigation development plans must be published on the government website. Irrigation development areas and irrigation development plans must be reviewed and amended every 5 years if the designation criteria or the conditions for nature conservation, water management, environmental protection, and soil protection have changed.