Mi is az a HUMAC, azaz az Hungaryan Mine Action Center? 

Az ENSZ “Mértéktelen sérülést okozónak vagy megkülönböztetés nélkül hatónak tekinthető egyes hagyományos fegyverek alkalmazásának betiltásáról illetőleg korlátozásáról szóló” Genfben 1980. október 15 napján kelt egyezménye alapján az egyezmény az 1983. évi december hó 2. napján hatályba lépett. Ezt követően megszületett a 1984. évi 2. törvényerejű rendelet, melynek végrehajtásáért a honvédelemért felelős miniszter gondoskodik. A rendelet számos harcászati és haditechnikai területet szabályoz, többek között annak 11. cikke előírja a Magas Szerződő Fél közötti „technikai együttműködés és segítségnyújtás” rendjét.

Decree-Law No. 2 of 1984, Article 11, "Technical Cooperation and Assistance"

Each High Contracting Party undertakes to facilitate and shall have the right to participate to the fullest extent possible in the exchange of equipment, materials, scientific and technical information and mine clearance devices related to the implementation of this Protocol. In particular, the High Contracting Parties shall not impose unnecessary restrictions on the transfer of demining equipment and related technological information for humanitarian purposes.

Each High Contracting Party undertakes to provide information to the mine action database established under the United Nations system, in particular, information on various mine action tools and technologies, lists of experts, specialised institutions or national mine action coordinators.

Each High Contracting Party shall, within its means, provide mine action assistance within the United Nations system or other international areas or bilateral relations, or contribute financially to the United Nations Voluntary Demining Assistance Fund for mine action.

Requests for mine action assistance by High Contracting Parties may be submitted to the United Nations, other appropriate organisations or other States, supported by appropriate information. Such requests may be submitted to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall forward them to all High Contracting Parties and to the appropriate international organisations.

If a request is received by the United Nations, the Secretary-General of the United Nations may, within the limits of the resources available to him, take appropriate steps to assess the situation and determine, in cooperation with the requesting High Contracting Party, the appropriate means of assistance in mine clearance or in the enforcement of the Convention. The Secretary-General may also inform the High Contracting Parties of any such assessment, as well as the nature and extent of the assistance required.

The High Contracting Parties, taking care not to violate their own constitutions and other legal provisions, undertake to cooperate and to transfer technology to facilitate the implementation of the appropriate prohibitions and restrictions set forth in this Protocol. technológia átadására, hogy elősegítsék a jelen jegyzőkönyvben rögzített megfelelő tiltások és korlátozások végrehajtását.

Each High Contracting Party shall have the right to request and receive technical assistance, as appropriate, where necessary and feasible, from another High Contracting Party with respect to specific technology other than weapons technology, for the purpose of shortening any deferral period set forth in the Technical Annex."

In order to promote the principle of cooperation, information sharing and mutual assistance, the UN has established the United Nation Mine Action Service, which is responsible for the management of the mine and other explosive ordnance disposal database and the list of international and national experts and coordinators in the field of explosive ordnance clearance , established under the United Nations system, the exchange of information on mine and other explosive ordnance clearance tools and technologies (equipment, materials, scientific and technical information), the coordination and funding of mine and other explosive ordnance clearance assistance programmes within the framework of bilateral relations.

The Convention obliges the High Contracting Parties to operate National Mine Action Centres (MACs) within their national frameworks, which are responsible for carrying out UNMAC activities at national level. In Hungary, there is currently no such organisation performing these tasks, despite the legal obligation to do so and the huge number of explosive devices found. The neighbouring countries have had such organisations for several decades (e.g. Mine Action Centre of the Republic of Serbia, Croatian Mine Action Centre, etc...), which have successfully integrated into the international system, ensured technical cooperation and mutual assistance between nations, and thus gained vast international professional experience, which has earned them outstanding merits and recognition for their countries. Secondly, they have coordinated a number of relief assistance programmes, generating additional income for the country concerned, and have established a professional framework for mine and other ERW clearance activities, raising the level of clearance activities to a high level through continuous salvage control, while radically reducing the number of civilian casualties from mine and other ERW explosions.

The Hungarian Mine Action Center, HUMAC, intends to carry out this activity in full, so we respectfully ask everyone involved in the establishment of HUMAC to please inform us of your intentions in order to gain wider public support!