Hungarian Gazette 2025/98
Summary
Government Decree No. 287/2025 renews the land-use and construction framework rules for the waterfront areas of Lake Balaton, with the aim of strengthening public use of the immediate waterfront, curbing further development, and protecting ecological values. The regulation defines the criteria for establishing the alignment of the regulatory shoreline, taking into account nature conservation, water management and landscape characteristics, as well as land registry data. The decree was created as a result of several years of extensive professional, municipal and public consultations, in which riparian settlements, sectoral authorities and civil organisations were all involved.
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HUNGARIAN OFFICIAL GAZETTE · Issue 98 of 2025
III. Government Decrees
Government Decree No. 287/2025. (VIII. 27.) on the land use requirements of the waterfront areas of Lake Balaton
[1] Lake Balaton is an irreplaceable national treasure, one of the most important natural heritages and resources of our country, which we have an obligation to preserve and protect for future generations. Lake Balaton belongs to all of us: ensuring its accessibility and the free approach to its shores is a matter of public interest, and therefore the publicly accessible waterfront areas must be preserved at all costs, and their expansion must be promoted to the extent possible, as the region is one of Hungary's most visited tourist destinations, with a centuries-old bathing culture.
[2] Lake Balaton is not merely an asset or a resort: it is primarily an ecological system providing irreplaceable ecological services, and furthermore the place of residence of many of us, where only such developments that fit into the landscape and townscape, do not overburden the region's infrastructure, and are in harmony with the needs, visions, cultural and natural heritage of local communities are permitted. The settlements of the priority resort district of Lake Balaton, and in particular the directly adjacent waterfront areas of the lake, require enhanced protection in view of all of the foregoing, owing to their ecological vulnerability and tourist significance.…