Act 458/2002, on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce, June 5, 2002

The law implements the E-Commerce Directive almost verbatim, Sections 13–15 corresponding to Articles 12–14 of the Directive.

(1) A presumption of knowledge is provided by the hosting exemption in Section 15 for certain extreme pornography or incitement to hatred, which are assumed to be known also without a notification.

(3) Section 16 allows a court to issue an order to disable access to information, but only applies to hosting providers. The general obligation by the service provider to take action to implement a decision by the authorities is provided in Section 19, which implements Articles 12(3), 13(3) and 14(3) of the Directive. 

(4) There is no specific provision corresponding to Article 15 of the Directive, regarding the prohibition of monitoring obligations, nor a provision on the obligation to notify the authorities if the service provider notices illegal behavior.

(5) Sections 20–25 implement a rather detailed, DMCA-like notice-and-takedown mechanism that only applies to the hosting providers.