Sovereignty Protection Office

Rationale

This is the largest single line in the chapter — larger than the personnel envelope itself — and funds the Office's non-payroll operating costs: premises, utilities, IT systems, services, the operation of the statutory research institute through which the Office conducts comparative legal analysis, conferences, and external procurement. Severance-with-overlap protects payroll, not the operating envelope. Office leases, supplier contracts, and IT subscriptions are counterparty contracts whose rights are honoured by contract run-off, not by employee transition; they do not justify a continuing budget line once the institution is wound down. The dologi line therefore reaches zero in the first budget cycle. The visible effect — an institution stops procuring premises and services — is the intended effect; the unseen alternative use of the 3,582.6 millió Ft is its return to the taxpayers who funded it, or its redeployment to a rights-protection function that survives the framework's test.

Rationale

This line funds the salaries of the Office's staff. The function the staff perform is the function analysed above: it is not a rights-protection function, not a constitutional precondition, and not a protective response to irreversible involuntary harm. On the merits the line is a candidate for Immediate Cut. It is classified as a short Phase-Out for one reason only — the protected party is the Office's employees, who hold employment contracts entered in good faith and have a reasonable claim to a defined transition. The classical-liberal destination is abolition; the rule-of-law method is an honest bridge for the people whose livelihoods the abolition removes.

Rationale

This line is the employer-side social contribution (SzocHo) and other employer levies on the personnel line above. It is not a free-standing programme; it is a fixed function of the payroll. It is classified identically to the personnel line and forms part of the same payroll component for the severance calculation: a worker on severance-with-overlap continues to be a payrolled employee of the state for the overlap period, so the employer contribution continues to be paid on their salary during years 1 and 2 and falls to zero in year 3 with the rest of the payroll.

Rationale

Capital investment in equipment, IT infrastructure, and similar assets for an institution that is being wound down. Capital is scarce and has alternative uses: every forint of equipment bought for this Office is a forint of saving not deployed to a project a private buyer would have selected. There is no case for new capital formation inside an institution slated for closure. The line is eliminated immediately; any assets already held are realised or transferred at the point of wind-down.

Rationale

Renovation of premises occupied by an institution scheduled to close. The classification is obvious from the mechanism: there is no case for spending on the fabric of buildings an institution will vacate. The line is eliminated immediately.