Vatican
City, 22 October 2013 (VIS) – On Monday, 21 October, at the
Hungarian parliament in Budapest, the Holy See and Hungary signed an
agreement modifying the 1997 Concordat on the financing of the public
service and religious activity in Hungary of the Catholic Church, as
well as on several issues of a financial nature.
On
behalf of the Holy See, the agreement was signed by Archbishop
Alberto Bottari de Castello, apostolic nuncio to Hungary. The deputy
prime minister Zsolt Semjen signed on behalf of Hungary.
The
agreement modifies and updates the existing concordat of 20 June
1997, in the context of new legislation linked to the Basic Law of
Hungary, promulgated on 25 April 2011. It regulates various financial
issues regarding the teaching of religion in schools, Catholic higher
education institutions, the restoration and conservation of religious
patrimony of monuments and works of art owned by ecclesiastical
bodies, the destination of a portion of tax to the Catholic Church,
and the income of ex-ecclesiastical real estate not recorded in the
appendix to the 1997 agreement.
The
Agreement, which consists of seven articles and three appendices,
will come into force upon the filing of the instruments of
ratification.
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