Legal regulation of licensing renewable energy systems in Hungary

The members of the European Union turned their attention to renewable energy sources because of increasing energy demand, decreasing inland fossil fuel supply, raising and variable energy prices and concern about climate change. Within the European Union Hungary is in arrears to the other members using renewable energy sources. The objectives of the Hungarian energy policy go by the energy policy of the European Union and expect increase of use renewable energy. For the sake of the cause legislators and authorities have to support the introduction and spread of technologies by all means. In this paper the Hungarian licensing procedures of renewable energies were discussed. Usually these are rather complex. The procedures are almost the same in many ways. For example generality is in the process of licensing the involvement of the high authorities and administrations. But some legal rules include relevant provisions for a variety. The 33/2009. (IV.30) decree is a good instance for the wind power plants. Therefore the general and special regulations have to be studied as well. Besides the simplicity and complexity of the procedures, some problems and possible options were emphasized too. Finally the future goals were mentioned in the conclusion.