Discusiones

(1) The Hungarian Rectors’ Conference is a consultative body entitled to represent higher education institutions and to protect their interests. The Hungarian Rectors’ Conference is a legal person, its seat is in Budapest, and may be represented by its chairperson. The public prosecutor’s office shall exercise legality supervision over the Hungarian Rectors’ Conference. The Hungarian Rectors’ Conference shall be registered by the Educational Authority. The reporting and accounting obligation of the Hungarian Rectors’ Conference shall be governed by the rules applicable to other organisations. The Hungarian Rectors’ Conference shall have the status of a public benefit organisation but without the need to be registered as a public benefit organisation.

(2) The members of the Hungarian Rectors’ Conference shall comprise the rectors of higher education institutions.

The Hungarian Rectors’ Conference shall stipulate its order of operation in its bylaws, and shall elect its officers and authorise some of its members to represent the organisation. The Hungarian Rectors’ Conference is entitled to use the coat of arms of Hungary.

(4) The financial and administrative conditions for the operation of the Hungarian Rectors’ Conference shall be ensured by higher education institutions.

(5) The National Doctoral Council is a body consisting of the chairs of the doctoral councils of higher education institutions, adopting positions in affairs relating to doctorate programmes and the conferral of doctoral degrees. The National Doctoral Council shall determine the principles governing the quality and performance based distribution of the quota of students admissible to (partial)state scholarship supported doctorate programmes among the higher education institutions.

MAINTAINER CONTROL 43. Exercising the maintainer’s rights Section 73

(1) Maintainer control shall be exercised by the entity ensuring the conditions of operation of the higher education institution in line with the provisions of this Act. Unless otherwise provided for herein, the rights and obligations pertaining to maintainer control shall be identical irrespective of the entity exercising such rights and discharging such obligations. (2) Rights and obligations pertaining to maintainer control may be transferred to another person entitled to exercise the maintainer’s rights subject to an agreement, as of the date the decision on registration by the Educational Authority becomes final. If such transfer does not affect the activities and operation of the higher education institution, the Educational Authority shall examine whether the new maintainer meets the requirements concerning the continuous operation of the higher education institution. Changes to the maintainer’s rights shall not affect the state recognition of the higher education institution, or the rights and obligation of students.

(3) The maintainer shall

a)within it’s competence (in case of state higher education institutions, in orders not subject to Act CXCV of 2011 on Public Finance) shall issue or amend the founding charter of the higher education institution;

b) communicate the budgetary appropriations (principals) of the higher education institution and evaluate its annual accounts drafted in compliance with the accounting regulations;

c) review

ca) the statutes of the higher education institution,

cb) the institutional development plan of the higher education institution, cb) the budget of the higher education institution,

e) monitor

da) the higher education institution’s management, lawful and efficient operation, db) the effectiveness of professional work;

e) originate the appointment and release from office of the rector, and shall exercise the employer’s rights with regard to the rector;

f) appoint the financial head – or the head of the internal audit unit within higher education institutions operating as budgetary organisations –, and withdraw such appointment at the initiative of the rector or at its own discretion, For state higher education institutions, for the purposes of this Paragraph, the decision of the maintainer shall be adopted by the minister responsible for the supervision of state assets, after the information of minister;

g) provide for the control of the annual budget report of the higher education institution operating as a budgetary organisation.

(4) The maintainer shall examine the uniformity, completeness, and lawfulness of the statutes and their compliance with the requirement of efficiency.

(5) In ensuring lawfulness, the contents of institutional documents shall be observed, with their legality as well as that of the operation of the higher education institution and decision- making shall be verified.

(1) As a result of the control, the maintainer may call on the head of the higher education institution to remedy any unlawful decision or to take the necessary action, and set an appropriate deadline for compliance.

(2) The maintainer shall evaluate the effectiveness of professional activity and the efficiency of institution operation on the basis of the annual report produced by the higher education institution in compliance with the accounting regulations and the report on the implementation of the institutional quality development scheme, and shall undertake action by specifying an appropriate deadline where necessary.

(3) The higher education institution shall send the maintainer its statutes, institutional development plan, budget, plan for commitments and implementation schedule, as well as any amendments within fifteen days from the Senate’s decision. Where the higher education institution plans to take a decision that is contrary to its budget or plan for commitments, it shall notify the maintainer in advance. The maintainer may request notice of any other decision of the Senate. In case of state higher education institutions, the institutional development plan, budget, plan for commitments and implementation schedule, as well as any amendments shall be sent to the minister responsible for the supervision of state assets and to the minister responsible for the state budget for information purposes.

(4) The maintainer may communicate to the higher education institution its comments on the higher education institution’s budget, plan for commitments and the implementation schedule of the budget within 30 days from receipt. Comments on the statutes shall be made within 60 days from receipt and those concerning the institutional development plan within 90 days. Such deadlines may be extended on one occasion by no more than 30 days. If the maintainer raises any objection to the higher education institution’s budget, plan for commitments and the pertaining implementation schedule, or the contents of the statutes or the institutional development plan, it shall return the same on one occasion and by setting an appropriate deadline to the higher education institution urging its revision.

(5) The higher education institution shall comply with the request or objection of the maintainer. Objected measures and decisions of the higher education institution may not be implemented.

44. Framework of the maintainer control