The Ministry of Environment and Water (Hungarian: Környezetvédelmi és Vízügyi Minisztérium, KVVM) was a government ministry of Hungary.
History
In April 1988 the Ministry of Environment and Water was established through a merger of the National Water Bureau and the National Environment and Nature Protection Office. In the northern hemisphere summer of 1990, the Ministry of Transport, Communication and Water assumed the responsibility of water affairs, taking it from the Ministry of Environment and Water, which changed its name to Ministry for Environment Protection and kept that name for several months. It later became known as the Ministry of Environment and Regional Development. In 1998 the Ministry of Environment Protection was established after reorganization occurred in the governmental ministries. In 2002 the responsibility of water affairs was transferred from the Ministry for Transport, Communication and Water to the Ministry of Environment Protection, which became the Ministry of Environment and Water. The ministry has since been abolished and the Ministry of Rural Development now handled the responsibilities formerly held by the Ministry of Environment and Water.