The Parliament amended Act LX of 2009 on electronic public services. The amendment was initiated by Hungarian NGO The Open Standards Alliance with the purpose to promote monopoly-free markets and the development of interchangeable and interoperable products generated by open standards.
The standards used need to be publicly accessible, free of charge, royalty free without restrictions, and neutral from the competition point of view thus allowing for real interoperability.
The Open Standards Alliance intends to further cooperate with the government and, in this sense, it will initiate the collaboration between governmental representatives, public utility companies and consumer protection organisations.
The alliance also intends to promote interoperability based on publicly defined open standards to become a EU norm during the Hungarian EU presidency in 2011 and, to this purpose, it will initiate public collaboration between all civil and public interested parties within the EU.
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number8.1/hungary-open-standards-obligatory
