Full text of the paper:
Collected Papers of the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad, University of Novi Sad
2022, vol. LVI, No. 2, pp. 583-598
Language of the paper: English
Overview paper
udk: 342.2:355.40(4)
doi:10.5937/zrpfns56-38185
Author:
István László Gál
University of Pécs
Faculty of Law
gal.istvan.laszlo@gmail.com
Abstract:
The legal regulation of the protection of the state secret have appeared relatively late in European legal history over the last two centuries. The secrecy provisions have always been in accordance with the standards of the given age, in most cases relatively neutral regulations, and a certain development arc can be observed. It can be seen in the gradual modernization of the rules and, on the other hand, in the increase in the number of guarantee elements from the end of the socialist era. With regard to criminal law, there is a tendency for criminal offenses regarding to state to gradually less and less severe. The various rules of state secrecy and related crimes has eased in most European countries’ criminal law regulation since 1989.
Keywords:
secret, state secret, classified data, classification, state security, Code Csemegi, perduellio, Evidenzbureau, State Protection Authority.