Between 1 July and 30 September 2025, a total of 191 new cases were assigned to Rapporteur Justices, the overwhelming majority of which concerned constitutional complaints. The following table presents the distribution of new cases according to the Court’s various competences, together with comparative data for the third quarter of 2024:

		2025 / Q3	2024/ Q3
Total number of new cases assigned to Rapporteur Justices		191	131
	Number of constitutional complaints	184	122
	Number of judicial initiatives	7	9
	Number of ex post facto norm control procedures	0	0
	Other matters (miscellanea)	0	0

As can be observed, the number of new cases initiated during the third quarter of 2025 was considerably higher than in the corresponding period of the previous year.

Within the total number of new matters, the relative proportion of case types for the third quarter of 2025 was as follows:

As regards concluded proceedings, the panels and the full bench of the Court brought 91 cases to completion between 1 July and 30 September 2025, of which 10 resulted in a decision on the merits. The panels of the Court invoked their power to annul judicial or administrative decisions in two cases, and in the third quarter of 2025, they likewise declared statutory provisions to be in violation of the Fundamental Law and annulled them in two instances.

The table below sets out the principal data relating to the cases concluded during the third quarter of 2025, presented together with the corresponding figures for the third quarter of the previous year. The number of cases concluded by the panels of the Court shows a slight decrease compared with the figures recorded for the same period in 2024.

	2025/ Q3	2024/ Q3
Total number of cases concluded by panels or the Full Court	91	106
Total number of cases concluded by a decision on the merits	10	23
Annulment of judicial or administrative decisions	2	5
Annulment (total or partial) of legal norms or statutory provisions	2	3
Dismissal of constitutional complaints at the stage of admissibility	74	79
Number of cases concluded in the Secretary-General’s preparatory procedure and by single-judge order	423	276

The following chart illustrates the quarterly evolution of data concerning concluded cases, covering the period from 2022 to 2025.

Pursuant to Section 43 of the Constitutional Court Act, where the Constitutional Court finds that a judicial decision is contrary to the Fundamental Law, it shall annul that decision. The chart below presents, in a quarterly breakdown covering the preceding two years, the evolution in the number of Constitutional Court decisions annulling judicial rulings.

The following figure illustrates, in a quarterly breakdown covering the past two years, the number and development of Constitutional Court decisions resulting in the annulment of statutory provisions.

The current list of Constitutional Court decisions adopted in 2025, which annulled judicial rulings or statutory provisions, is available for public access here >> (in Hungarian).

The summary table of the constitutional requirements established by the Constitutional Court may be accessed here >> (in Hungarian).

Where, in the course of the exercise of its constitutional competences, the Constitutional Court establishes that an omission by the legislator has resulted in a situation contrary to the Fundamental Law, the Court shall call upon the body responsible for the omission to fulfil its legislative duty within a specified time limit. A failure to legislate shall be deemed to occur in any of the following instances:
– where a legislative duty arising from an international treaty has not been fulfilled;
– where a statutory provision expressly authorising the adoption of legislation has not been acted upon and no implementing regulation has been adopted; or
– where the substantive content of the legal regulation, as required by or deducible from the Fundamental Law, is incomplete or deficient. The current list of legislative omissions identified by the Constitutional Court which remain unremedied may be consulted on the Court’s official website here >> (in Hungarian).

The detailed tables containing comprehensive data on the disposition of constitutional complaints may be accessed here >>.

The average duration of the proceedings in constitutional complaint cases concluded by the panels and the full bench of the Constitutional Court in 2025, measured from the date of submission of the petition, amounted to 285 days. For cases concluded in the third quarter of the current year, the average time required for completion was 223 days. It is, however, of particular importance to note that, in accordance with the Rules of Procedure of the Constitutional Court, the procedural time limits prescribed therein are not calculated from the date of the submission of the petition, but rather from the date on which the case is assigned to the Rapporteur Justice. The figure below provides a retrospective overview of the average duration of case management and adjudication, year by year, extending back to 2013.

Finally, with regard to the cases concluded, the following provides an overview of the distribution of constitutional complaint cases concluded by a substantive decision during the first three quarters of 2025, according to their procedural and substantive characteristics.

As regards the current caseload, that is, the cases pending before the Constitutional Court, the data at the end of the third quarter of 2025 evolved as follows. As of 30 September 2025, the number of cases assigned to reporting justices and pending before the Constitutional Court stood at 404. This figure represents a substantial increase compared with the data recorded at the end of the previous quarter, when the number of pending cases (as of 30 June 2025) amounted to 304.

The number and detailed distribution of cases pending before the reporting justices as at 30 September 2025 are presented in the table below, which also provides, for purposes of comparison, the corresponding figures for the end of the preceding quarter. The data naturally exclude those cases in which the preparatory procedure under the authority of the Secretary-General is still in progress.

The number and detailed distribution of cases pending before the reporting justices as at 30 September 2025 are presented in the table below. For purposes of comparison, the table also includes the corresponding data recorded at the end of the previous quarter. The data naturally exclude those cases in which the preparatory procedure under the authority of the Secretary-General is still in progress.

		2025/ Q3	2025/ Q2
Total number of pending cases		404	304
	Number of constitutional complaints	390	286
	Number of judicial initiatives	5	7
	Number of ex post facto norm control procedures	8	9
	Other matters (miscellanea)	1	2

The following chart illustrates, in a quarterly breakdown covering the past two years, the evolution of data relating to newly assigned cases, completed proceedings, and the current caseload, expressed as the number of cases pending before the Rapporteur Justices delivering the opinion of the Court.

The comprehensive tables containing the consolidated and detailed case-flow and statistical data as at 30 September 2025 may be viewed here >>

Separate tables are also compiled containing calendar year data on the disposition of constitutional complaints. These tables present, in an annual breakdown dating back to 2013, detailed statistical information concerning constitutional complaints, including the number of petitions dismissed or admitted, the number of decisions on the merits, as well as the volume of cases pending at the end of each year. These tables may be accessed here >>

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