From the 2026 budget audit
2.3 billion Ft of sectoral transfers without a named purpose.
The 'other sectoral professional tasks' line funds unspecified sectoral-transfer activity — 2.3 billion Ft without a distinct rights-protection rationale visible in the budget data.
Roughly 587 Ft per taxpayer per year — 2,347 million Ft total — for a line with no named programme purpose identified in the chapter data.
What you see — and what you don't
The seen: recipients of a sectoral professional-task line without a named programme. The unseen: the taxpayer funding a transfer the budget does not explain — the opacity is the problem, not just the amount.
Objection
"These 'other' categories cover legitimate regulatory and advisory functions that simply do not fit neatly into a named line."
Answer
Legitimate regulatory and supervisory functions belong in named lines with identified mandates — NÉBIH, the national park directorates, and the land registry are each named and each carry a specific rationale. The phase-out is conditional: if a primary-source review identifies a genuine supervisory function here, the classification is revisited and the function returns to a named line.
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The analyst's verdict
Other sectoral professional tasks
Rationale
A residual professional-task line within the sectoral block. Without a distinct rights-protection function visible in the budget data, it is treated as part of the sectoral-transfer family. Phase out over three years; revisit if a primary-source review of the line's content reveals a genuine supervisory or safety function that belongs in the Keep category.
Transition mechanism
Linear phase-out over 3 years.
Affected groups
Recipients of the sectoral professional-task funding.
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