Occupational health examinations to change from 1 September 2024 – new data protection authority guidelines

From 1 September 2024, the regime for mandatory occupational health examinations will change: the obligation to undergo an occupational health examination will no longer be comprehensive, as

(i) legislation will specify the specific jobs for which an occupational health examination is mandatory, and

(ii) in other cases, it will be up to the employer to decide whether to require an occupational health examination

HUF 40 million fine for passing on data security obligations

According to the NAIH’s report on the year 2023, the data protection authority imposed a HUF 40,000,000 data protection fine on a data controller for trying to pass on data security obligations to data subjects [NAIH-109/2023].The data controller required data subjects to send documents containing bank data to it in a password-protected, secure manner, instead of the data controller itself setting up the conditions for secure data sharing.