Legislation of forensic DNA analysis in Hungary - past, present and future

Ever since the first application of DNA analysis in criminal casework in 1992, the conditions under which forensic DNA analysis is performed within the Hungarian law have been developed and subsequently approved, in parallel with the establishment of a national database report of forensic DNA. Act XLVII of 2009 (on the Criminal Records System, on the Records of EU Member State Court Rulings against Hungarian Citizens as well as on the Records of Biometric Criminal and Law Enforcement Data) constituted the legal framework for this.

Source: Forensic Science International: Genetics Supplement Series - October 31, 2019 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: M ónika Nogel, Zsolt Pádár, András Czebe, Gábor Kovács Source Type: research