Hungary will create a new top authority to monitor and sanction polluting industries, ruling Tisza party lawmaker Zsolt Tarkanyi said, as part of a drive to tighten regulation of the EV battery sector that mushroomed under former leader Viktor Orban.
Tarkanyi will also propose reforms setting pollution fines as a percentage of turnover instead of the current fixed amounts to act as a stronger deterrent, the lawmaker said in a Facebook post late on Thursday.