the judicial revision of the legislation related to the above mentioned issues with special urgency. As of the next general elections, the participation of nationalities in the work of the Parliament is ensured by the so-called preferential representation system for nationalities — namely a nationality candidate may become a Member of Parliament with only one quarter of the votes required to obtain a mandate. The new Nationalities Act adopted last year — introduced from 1 January 2012 the unified concept of nationalities, instead of the concept of national and ethnic minorities, used since 1993. Provisions of the Nationalities Act include the fundamental, individual and collective rights of nationalities, within the fields of education, culture, media, as well as nationality self-governments and their system and operation. On the basis of the recently adopted EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies, Hungary, after broad professional and public consultation prepared its National Social Inclusion Strategy which has been sent to the European Commission. The Strategy is complex: it lays down an immediate action plan, and also assigns long term tasks. In addition, it systemizes all those areas and actors which deal with inclusion policies such as state measures, specified programmes, institutions and other actors. In parallel with the National Social Inclusion Strategy, the Government also adopted last December a Governmental Action Plan for the Implementation of the National Social Inclusion Strategy in the Years 2012 to 2014 which determines specific tasks, identifies the responsible Members of Government and sets deadlines in the areas of child welfare, education, employment, health care, housing, the involvement