Pardon

Hungary

Hungary - Criminal Code 1978 (2012) EN

GENERAL PART
CHAPTER X
EXONERATION FROM THE DETRIMENTAL CONSEQUENCES ATTACHED TO PRIOR CONVICTIONS

Mode of Exoneration

Section 99
The convicted person may be exonerated:
...
c) by an act of clemency.

GENERAL PART
CHAPTER X
EXONERATION FROM THE DETRIMENTAL CONSEQUENCES ATTACHED TO PRIOR CONVICTIONS

Exoneration by Act of Clemency

Section 104
(1) The person exercising executive clemency may grant exoneration to a person if this may not otherwise take place in accordance with this Act.
(2) The person exonerated by an act of clemency shall be deemed to have a clean criminal record in respect of the detrimental consequences outside the penal framework.

Hungary - Fundamental Law 2011 (2019) EN

THE STATE
The National Assembly

Article 1
(2)
j) exercises public pardon;

THE STATE
National referendum

Article 8
(3)
j) the exercise of public pardon.

THE STATE
The President of the Republic

Article 9
(4)
(g) exercise the right of individual pardon;

Rome Statute

Article 17 Issues of admissibility

1. Having regard to paragraph 10 of the Preamble and article 1, the Court shall determine that a case is inadmissible where:

(b) The case has been investigated by a State which has jurisdiction over it and the State has decided not to prosecute the person concerned, unless the decision resulted from the unwillingness or inability of the State genuinely to prosecute;