The Hungarian Desk is headed by Eszter Mária Köpf, who is the National Member for Hungary since July 2024.
In 2023, the Hungarian Desk was involved in 460 new cases, 26 coordination meetings, 1 coordination centre, and 13 joint investigation teams.
Hungary
National Member
National Member
Ms Eszter Mária Köpf was appointed National Member for Hungary in May 2024.
Having started as a prosecutor in 1996, Ms Köpf has extensive experience in international and European legal affairs. She led the Department for International and European Affairs of the Hungarian Office of the Prosecutor General between 2004 and 2019, before becoming the head of the Division for International Legal Assistance Cases. Ms Köpf also received the Magyar István Prize of the Hungarian Prosecution Service in 2021.
Ms Köpf graduated in law and political science from Eötvös Lóránd University in 1996, while also obtaining a degree in history from the same institution. In 1997, she completed her Master of Laws in Comparative European Law at the University of Groningen, in the Netherlands, and did her bar exam in 2000. Additionally, she graduated in European Law from Pázmány Péter Catholic University in 2011.
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Casework
2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
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New cases (total) | 234 | 269 | 327 | 372 | 456 | 423 | 460 |
Coordination meetings (initiating and/or participating) | 25 | 25 | 25 | 21 | 18 | 27 | 26 |
Coordination centres (organising and/or participating) | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 |
Joint investigation teams (newly signed and/or ongoing) | 5 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 19 | 13 |
Case examples
Press releases
27 April 2022|PRESS RELEASE
07 April 2022|PRESS RELEASE
23 March 2022|PRESS RELEASE
03 November 2021|PRESS RELEASE
08 July 2021|PRESS RELEASE
27 May 2021|PRESS RELEASE
08 April 2021|PRESS RELEASE
16 March 2021|PRESS RELEASE
04 March 2021|PRESS RELEASE
11 February 2021|PRESS RELEASE
Documents
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