1.5 billion Ft to buy local silence — not to verify safety.

Indoklás

This line is statutorily distinct from the rest of the chapter and warrants the chapter's one genuinely contestable classification. Under the atomic energy law, associations of municipalities located near a repository or a planned repository receive support from the Fund. The stated purpose is *ellenőrzés és információ* — monitoring and information. The honest description of the mechanism: it is a transfer from the Fund to the local authorities of the host and neighbouring settlements of Bátaapáti and the Boda site-selection area, channelled through municipal associations whose existence is itself created by the transfer. Two functions are bundled in this line, and they classify differently. The genuine function is independent monitoring — local capacity to verify that a repository in one's own community is operating safely is a real rights-protection interest of the residents who live with the hazard, and it is not obvious that the operator's own monitoring or the national regulator's monitoring fully substitutes for community-level verification. The other function is, in substance, a side-payment: a transfer to host municipalities that buys local political acquiescence to siting a facility nobody wants next door. The second function concentrates benefit on an organised, geographically defined constituency — the host municipalities — while the cost is spread across the operator levy and ultimately across electricity consumers. The host municipalities have a structural interest in the transfer's continuation independent of whether the monitoring it nominally funds is being performed; the *társulás* form gives that interest an institutional voice. The framework's reading: the verification function is real and should be retained, but at its actual cost, which is a fraction of 1,498.6 millió Ft — independent environmental and radiological monitoring of two repository sites is a contained technical activity. The residual is a siting side-payment, and a siting side-payment is a discretionary transfer rather than a rights-protection function. The Phase-Out reduces the line over three years to the audited cost of genuine independent monitoring, retained as a residual; the acquiescence-payment component is wound down.