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Precious Metal Control Department

Head of Department: Arpad Szűcs

Assay Authority of the Hungarian Trade Licensing Office

Precious Metal Control Department

Bláthy Ottó street 3-5. H-1089 Budapest, Hungary

Tel:  +36 (1) 313-0020
Fax: +36 (1) 2010-2171

E-mail: szucsa--.at.--mkeh.gov.hu


Main duties of department:

  • Takes proposal for supervision plan of precious metal enterprises.
  • Supervise legal regulations relating to precious metal articles; in cooperation with National Tax and Guard Office.
  • Performs official procedure in case of irregularity discovered during the field inspection.
  • Make precious metal articles intended for sale and not complying with legal requirements ineligible for marketing.
  • Prepare expert opinion regarding to determine type, fineness of precious metal articles and to establish originality of applied marks.
  • Performs field inspection respecting the activity of anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism in accordance with Act CXXXVI of 2007 on the Prevention and Combating of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing.
  • Carry out the examining equivalency procedure of hallmarking.
  • Takes proposal for new hallmarks and for the modification of existing hallmarks.
  • Provides for producing the leader tool of the hallmark, and for preparing of electronic data of laser hallmark.
  • Make out the certificate in the event the hallmark cannot be applied in the precious metal article for whatever reason.
  • Takes imprint from responsibility mark and performs the digitalization of the mark.

Date of last update: 2021-05-17