A chamber with the power to compel membership fees — also funded by your taxes.

Rationale

This line funds the Magyar Agrár-, Élelmiszergazdasági és Vidékfejlesztési Kamara — commonly the Nemzeti Agrárgazdasági Kamara, NAK. Membership in the chamber is compulsory by statute: the Act on the chamber (2012. évi CXXVI. törvény) requires those carrying out defined agricultural activity to be members, and a 2024 amendment extended compulsory membership to a further range of agricultural enterprises. The chamber is therefore funded twice over from the producers it represents — once through mandatory membership dues, and again through this 2,500.0 millió Ft transfer from general taxation for its "public tasks." Two distinct issues. First, an organisation that already has a statutory power to compel dues from its entire membership has a funding base; the general-taxpayer top-up means the urban wage-earner co-funds a professional body whose services flow to its agricultural members. Second, the classification has to confront what the chamber is. A body with compulsory membership and a state-funded budget, representing a sector and administering delegated functions, concentrates an organised interest and gives it a structural channel into policy. Where the chamber performs genuinely delegated state administrative functions — registry maintenance, official certifications — those functions can be identified, costed, and either retained as state functions inside NÉBIH or the ministry, or funded by cost-recovery fees on the producers who use them. Where the chamber performs representation and advocacy, that is a membership activity properly funded by membership dues, not by general taxation. Phase out the general-budget transfer over three years; the compulsory-dues base, whatever its own merits, already funds the chamber.