Act C of 2012 on the Criminal Code (as in force on 1 April 2022)
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(5) A person who has attained the age of eighteen years who induces a person who has not
attained the age of eighteen years to use an illegal performance enhancing substance or
provides assistance for such a person to use an illegal performance enhancing substance is
guilty of a misdemeanour and shall be punished by imprisonment for up to one year.
(6) For the purposes of this section, illegal performance enhancing substance means a
substance which, having regard to its active substance, is an anabolic agent, peptide hormone,
growth factor or a related substance, or a hormone antagonist and modulator, and is specified
by name in the government decree promulgating Annex I to the International Convention
against Doping in Sport.
Counterfeiting of medicinal products
Section 185/A (1) A person who
a) counterfeits a medicinal product or veterinary medicinal product or makes a counterfeit
medicinal product or veterinary medicinal product,
b) places on the market, trades in, or offers, or hands over unjustified quantities of, a
counterfeit or counterfeited medicinal product or veterinary medicinal product, or a medicinal
product or veterinary medicinal product not licensed in Hungary,
c) imports to, exports from, or transports through, the territory of the country, or acquires or
keeps an unjustified quantity of, a counterfeit or counterfeited medicinal product or veterinary
medicinal product,
d) acquires, keeps, imports to, exports from, or transports through, the territory of the
country an unjustified quantity of a medicinal product or veterinary medicinal product not
licensed in Hungary,
e) uses an original document pertaining to a medicinal product or veterinary medicinal
product outside its intended use, for a commercial purpose,
is guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment for up to three years.
(2) If the criminal offence specified in paragraph (1) is committed with medicinal products
containing psychoactive substances specified in Schedules III and IV annexed to the
Convention on Psychotropic Substances signed in Vienna on 21 February 1971 and
promulgated in Law-Decree 25 of 1979, or with the active substance of such medicinal
products by failing to perform a notification obligation or without, or exceeding the limits of,
a licence, the punishment shall be imprisonment for one to five years.
(3) In the cases specified in paragraph (1) a) and b), the punishment shall be imprisonment
for
a) one to five years if the criminal offence causes permanent disability or serious
degradation of health,
b) two to eight years if the criminal offence causes death.
(4) In the case specified in paragraph (2), the punishment shall be imprisonment for
a) two to eight years if the criminal offence specified in paragraph (1) a) or b) causes
permanent disability or serious degradation of health,
b) five to ten years if the criminal offence specified in paragraph (1) a) or b) causes death.
(5) A person who commits the criminal offence
a) as a healthcare worker,
b) as an employee of an organisation holding a licence for manufacturing, wholesale trade
or direct retail distribution, or
c) in a criminal conspiracy
shall be punished by imprisonment for one to five year in the case specified in
paragraph (1), or two to eight years in the case specified in paragraph (2).
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