Law Proposal on environmental product fee is ineligible for a general debate

The suggestions of the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture were not built into the law proposal, connecting with the environmental product fee. The National Assembly Agriculture Committee declared the proposal ineligible for a general discussion.

With little exaggeration, all agricultural producers, in case of every packaging activity, must register among the product fee users, even if only use bale string. The problem is complex: on the one hand, the law has a retroactive effect until 2004, on the other hand; places huge – often impractical – administrative and financial burden on the farmers. On 6th October, the Parliament's agriculture committee found the proposal ineligible for a general discussion.