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Point 2.4.8 of Annex 3 to Act XC of 2024 on Hungary’s central budget for 2025 provides as follows.

Appropriation: HUF 300 million

18.1. Kult. tv. Section 64(2) a) In accordance with point (b), the municipality is entitled to support the increase of the holdings of the municipal public library and the development of the technical, IT, technical equipment and equipment of the public library.

18.2. The amount of the aid shall be the sums spent by the municipalities maintaining the municipal public library or the municipal library with county scope on increasing the library documents financed from their own revenues and on the development of library infrastructure in the year preceding the reference year (hereinafter: in proportion to the municipal contribution for the year preceding the reference year).

18.3. In determining the municipal contribution for the year preceding the reference year, no account may be taken of state subsidies, neither the amount from the tendering source nor the amount from the support of the National Document Supply System.

18.4. The minister responsible for culture shall lay down the rules for the provision of information necessary for the establishment of the subsidy. The aid is defined as follows:

T = Ki*(Ei/ΣK)

where:

T = the amount of aid due to the municipality,

Ki= the amount of the municipal contribution for the year preceding the reference year,

Ei = the amount of the appropriation,

ΣK= nationally aggregated amount of Ki.

18.5. A municipality is entitled to a maximum subsidy of HUF 30.0 million on this basis.

18.6. A municipality may not receive aid if, according to the formula set out in point 18.4, the calculated amount of the aid is less than HUF 100 000. The expenditure of these municipalities shall not be taken into account for the determination of the final grant, the remaining amount shall be distributed among the municipalities receiving the grant.

18.7. The annual amount of the subsidy due to local governments shall be set by the Minister responsible for culture by 30 May of the current year.

18.8. The grant will be disbursed in one instalment in June of the current year.

18.9. From the point of view of the aid, only expenditure accounted for by the governmental function of increasing and registering the library’s stock 082042, and by the governmental function of exploring, preserving and protecting the library’s stock 082043 may be taken into account for the development of the library’s infrastructure, and the amount spent on the development of the technical, IT, technical equipment and installations of the public library 50%shall not exceed . The deadline for the use of the aid is 31 December of the current year.

18.10. The municipality shall provide information on the use of the subsidy by 28 April of the year following the reference year, the form, content and order of which shall be laid down in the Guide issued by the Minister responsible for culture.