The system of the hungarian disaster management
The changes that have been made in the Hungarian Disaster Management by the Act on DM passed in 2000 and the main goals of this organization are disscused here. The Act integrated a number of services and organizatins in order to direct and control the DM which is becoming a part of security policy. As it will have to face new challenges in the near future, the problems of modernisation the system, including organizing of scientific research programms, elaboration of risk analisys methods and models for assessing the challenges are offered as a starting point of upgrading the system.