MKIK has pressed for structural reforms to be carried out for years, Parragh said.
Hungary’s current government has built the chamber’s proposals into its program, based on an agreement between the chamber and governing Fidesz signed before parliamentary elections a year ago, he said. These include proposals to further develop the Széchenyi Card, make changes to public procurement rules, restructure trade school education, reappropriate European Union funding for economic development goals, establish a competitive system of taxation and reorganize trade development, he added.
Parragh warned against halting state support for research and development as such subsidies would be very difficult to restart. Hungarian businesses continue to perceive that European Union funding is difficult to access, he added.
Parragh said the system of interest coordination in Hungary must be changed to eliminate overlapping activities and to include more participants, echoing government plans to establish a new, broader interest coordination body.
A decision on whether to merge the Agriculture Chamber with MKIK should be take as soon as possible to allow the establishment of a new chamber system in the second half of the year and the start of its operation by the start of 2012, he said.
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