Act No. LXVII of 2004 regarding public interest and implementation of the programme aimed to increase the protection against flood in the Tisza River basin, and for land planning and rural development of the surrounding area (re-development of the Vásá...

Ensuring the protection against flood, and thus planning, regulating, organizing, governing, controlling of flood preventive activities, through the construction, development, maintenance and operation of protective waterworks (mainly reservoirs and canals) of non-local competence, shall be the duty of the State. This Act applies to the tasks and activities related to the re-development, planning, preparation and realization of the Vásárhelyi Plan (improvement of the capacity of water flow in the principal bed, creation and restoration of floodplain zones, etc.) . For this purposes, the State has the right of pre-emption or expropriation over land plots along the planned waterworks. The Act determines the rules of administrative and legal proceedings, defines the competence of authorities involved, in particular regarding the authorization of the environmental protection and water management authorities. This Act foresees the employment of jobless public workers for the restoration and maintenance of the principal river bed.

Amended by: Act No. CXXIII of 2007 on expropriation. (2013-06-27)
Amends: Act No. LVII of 1995 on water management. (2014-12-23)
Amends: Decree-Law No. 24 of 1976 on expropriation and implementing Decree No. 33 of 1976 of the Council of Ministers. (2001-12-24)
Amends: Act No. LIII of 1995 on the General Rules of Environmental Protection. (2015-03-17)
Amends: Act No. XXVI of 2003 on the National Land Use Plan. (2012-05-09)