Since 1 August 2008 the President of the Central Office for Administrative and Electronic Public Services is Dr. István Ignácz.

In his new position the most important tasks are the creation of the service state and the modernization of public administration in comply with the Government Programme by developing the client-orientated administrative procedures and also improving the electronic public services. He lays emphasis on the strengthening of the client orientation principle, the quick and authentic information and according to the law, the fulfilment of the public administration services on a high level.

General Dr. István Ignácz has legal and criminal detective degrees. During his 35 years of service and almost 30 years of managerial activity he gained widespread experiences in the Hungarian public administration. He has excellent professional reputation, he took part - among others - in the legal harmonization activities of police organizations prior to the accession to the European Union.

According to the 276/2006. (XII.23.) Decree of the Government on  establishment, tasks, and competence of the Central Office for Administrative and Electronic Public Services a new authority, the Central Office for Administrative and Electronic Public Services  (henceforward: Central Office) was set up on the 1st of January 2007, its management and supervision is under the control of the minister leading the Prime Minister’s Office; the power is delegated via the Government Commissioner responsible for Infocommunications.
The Central Office led by the President of Office is a budgetary authority managing tasks independently and having absolute authority over estimates.

In the interest of continuity of budgetary operation the Central Office was founded on the basis of the Central Data Processing, Registration and Election Office taking over the tasks of the Telecommunication Service and the Governmental Frequency Management Agency, too.

The Central Office is the general successor of the Central Data Processing, Registration and Election Office, the Telecommunication Service, and the Governmental Frequency Management Agency.

The Central Office for Administrative and Electronic Public Services operates as a central office:

• carries out tasks of the first instance regarding administrative activities;
• assures and manages operation of the administrative databases and registers, as well as systems of the Document Service Centres, carries out tasks regarding data management and data processing;
• operates the Document Service Centre (Front Office);
• carries out administrative tasks of second instance in the case of administrative decisions of the first instance issued by Public Administration Offices;
• carries out administrative tasks regarding non-civil purpose frequency management; 
• carries out tasks in connection with providing telecommunication services existing in the scope of Document Service Centres and law enforcement agencies;
• carries out central administrative tasks transacting exchange of information with the systems of the European Union in the frame of administrative registers which belong to its competence, and assures exchange of data between member states according to the Schengen Cooperation;
• carries out tasks regarding security of documents and carries out fulfillment of industrial and service activities regarding issue of documents;
• carries out activities in connection with the support of encryption activities;   
• cooperates with business organizations (Plc, Ltd) managing operational as well as other industrial and service activities (the Central Office enters into a contract in order to assure services).

Organigram

Besides organizational contraction and rationalisation of tasks the purpose is the following: the citizens meet more efficient public administration, and higher level electronic services in the future in every day life as a consequence of development and extension of client service functions and owing to this the satisfaction increase.

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