Debrecen4U January 22, 2026

The Rules of the Road Are Being Redefined After 50 Years

The draft of the fundamentally modernized rules of the road (KRESZ) took one and a half years to develop with the involvement of 70 organizations and one hundred experts, after processing more than 1,500 comments. It is now available on Minister of Construction and Transport János Lázár’s website for public consultation and may be introduced as early as September.

“In addition to guaranteeing safety, protecting the more vulnerable, and ensuring the well-being of all participants in traffic, the new KRESZ will be much simpler, clearer, more coherent, and linguistically more understandable,” said Lázár.

The minister has published the revised KRESZ on his website and welcomes online public feedback, as it affects everyone and applies to all. Many have long awaited the modernization of traffic regulations, for example because of pedestrians who nowadays often cross at zebra crossings while using mobile phones, causing frustration and posing accident risks on the roads. This will be prohibited in the future.

The new KRESZ also addresses electric scooters. Driving instructors have already begun studying the 151-page draft.

“I can very much agree, for example, regarding micromobility devices, that we should define where they can go, how fast they can go, and who may operate them. These issues need to be put in order, because countless cases occur where they travel at such speeds that we simply cannot keep up with them by car, moving crisscross in all directions,” said László Horváth, driving instructor.

According to the ministry, the new rules may be introduced as early as September.

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