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PRESS RELEASE No73/20

Luxembourg, 18 June 2020

Judgment in Case C-78/18

Commissionv Hungary

The restrictions imposed by Hungary on the financing of civil organisations by persons established outside that Member State do not comply with EU lawIn the judgment in Commission v Hungary (Transparency of associations) (C-78/18), delivered on 18 June 2020, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice upheld the action for failure to fulfil obligations brought by the European Commission against that Member State.The Court held that, by imposing obligations of registration, declaration and publication on certain categories of civil society organisations directly or indirectly receiving support from abroad exceeding a certain threshold and providing for the possibility of applying penalties to organisations that do not comply with those obligations, Hungary had introduced discriminatory and unjustified restrictions with regard to both the organisationsat issue and the persons granting them such support.Those restrictions run contrary to the obligations on Member States in respect of the free movement of capital laid down in Article 63 TFEU and to Articles 7, 8 and 12 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (‘the Charter’), on the right to respect for private and family life, the right to the protection of personal data and the right to freedom of association.