Between 1 January and 31 March 2025, the number of new cases referred to rapporteur justices of the Constitutional Court was 102 with most of them being constitutional complaints. Key data on newly opened cases by fields of competence (together with the first quarter data of the previous year) can be found in the table below: This shows that almost the same number of new cases were opened in the first quarter of this year as in the same period last year.

		1/2025	1/2024
Total number of new cases referred to rapporteur justices		102	108
	Number of constitutional complaints	90	102
	Number of judicial initiatives	11	4
	Number of posterior norm controls	1	2
	Other	0	0

The relative proportions of different types of new cases in the first quarter of 2025 were as follows:

In terms of completions, the bodies (plenary and panels) closed 95 cases between 1 January and 31 March 2025, of which 7 cases were decided on the merits. In 1 cases, judicial or administrative decisions were annulled, while 1 decision annulled a provision of the law. The plenary established 1 constitutional requirement.

The table below shows the main data for the first quarter for completed cases, together with the data for the first quarter of the previous year:

	1/2025	1/2024
Total number of cases completed by the bodies	95	139
Total number of cases concluded with a decision on the merits	7	27
Annulment of a court / administrative decision	1	5
Full/partial annulment of a law, provision of the law	1	2
Establishing a constitutional requirement	1	0
Rejecting the admission of a constitutional complaint	72	103
Number of cases completed in the preparatory procedure before the Secretary-General and by ruling of a single judge	305	240

The evolution of the quarterly data on completed cases is shown in the graph below:

Pursuant to section 43 of the Act on the Constitutional Court, if the Constitutional Court finds that a judicial decision is contrary to the Fundamental Law, it shall annul the decision. The graph below shows the evolution of the number of Constitutional Court decisions annulling judicial decisions, also on a quarterly basis, for the past two years.

The graph below shows the evolution of the number of Constitutional Court decisions annulling provisions of the law, also on a quarterly basis, for the past two years.

The current list of the Constitutional Court decisions delivered in the first quarter of 2025 annulling judicial decisions and legislative provisions is available here>> (in Hungarian).

A table summarising the constitutional requirements established by the Constitutional Court is available here>> (in Hungarian).

A table summarising the legislative omissions established by the Constitutional Court is available here >> (in Hungarian).

If the Constitutional Court, in its proceedings conducted in the exercise of its competences, establishes an omission on the part of the law-maker that results in violating the Fundamental Law, it shall call upon the organ that committed the omission to perform its task and set a time-limit for that. Failure to fulfil a legislative task is deemed to be a failure to fulfil law-maker’s duty deriving from an international treaty, failure to enact legislation despite an express legislative mandate, or a lack of essential content of legislation derivable from the Fundamental Law. Current outstanding legislative omissions can be accessed on the website here >> (in Hungarian).

Tables with detailed data on the handling of constitutional complaints are available here >>

The average administration time of the constitutional complaint cases completed by the bodies in 2024 was 275 days from the date of filing the petition, and for cases completed in the first quarter this year, this was 368 days. It is important to note, however, that the time limits laid down in the Rules of Procedure are not counted from the date of the submission of the petition, but from the date of assigning it on the rapporteur. The graph below shows annual data on the average time taken to complete a case with data dating back to 2013.

Finally, with regard to the completed cases, an overview of the proportion of constitutional complaint cases closed with a decision on the merits in the first three months of 2025, according to the fields of law concerned.

The development of current case-load (pending cases) at the end of the first quarter is as follows. On 31 March 2025, there were 314 cases assigned to rapporteur Justices, this a slight increase, just as in the past years, compared to the data at the end of the previous quarter (31 December 2024) (307 pending cases).

On 31 March 2025, the number and the detailed breakdown of the cases pending before the rapporteur Justices was as shown in the table below, which also includes data at the end of the previous quarter for comparison. Evidently, the figures do not include the cases in which the preparatory procedure with the Secretary-General was still ongoing.

		1/2025	4/2024
Total number of pending cases		314	307
	Number of constitutional complaints	292	279
	Number of judicial initiatives	10	17
	Number of posterior norm control procedures	10	9
	Other	2	2

The graph below shows the development of new cases assigned to the rapporteur Justices of the Constitutional Court, with the data on completions and the actual caseload (number of pending cases) for the past two years, broken down by quarter.

Tables with detailed accumulated case-load and statistics data as at 31 March 2025 are available here >>

There are also separate tables on the administration of constitutional complaints, containing data for the calendar year. Starting from 2013, they contain detailed data on constitutional complaints (number of rejected and admitted complaints, number of decisions on the merits, pending cases, etc.), broken down by year. These tables can be accessed here >>

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