A/HRC/4/9/Add.2 page 8 22. State funding is often insufficient to fulfil the full cultural and educational requirements of minority communities. However, some well-integrated minorities operate income-generating activities including publishing enterprises and training facilities, and have supplemented the overall funding available. Such activities have also created employment opportunities for some communities. 23. A visit to the German minority community and school in Solymar in the Budapest region revealed a generally high level of satisfaction with the system of minority self-government, and a harmonious and enabling relationship with municipal authorities. Community representatives noted that following significant historical difficulties for the German minority - deportation of many families in the post-war period and restrictions on language use - the present system has assisted in maintaining key elements of minority culture and identity and proved extremely valuable to the community. 24. In education, the system of minority self-governments has enabled funding for the teaching of and in minority languages at primary and secondary levels. According to the regulations, both local and national minority self-governments are entitled to take over a local minority school if they conclude an agreement with the local municipal council. Competition for limited funds was however noted as a problem that has created tensions and resulted in schools achieving only limited progress in minority language education, in terms of the hours of teaching available and the subjects taught. Concerns were expressed that plans to consolidate schools would have further detrimental effect on minority language teaching. 25. In recognition of difficulties encountered by small minority communities and municipal authorities in regard to the provision of minority language education, Act LXXIX of 1993 on Public Education as modified by Act LXVIII of 1999 offers a system of “complementary minority education”, which makes participation in minority education possible for minorities that do not have a minority school due to low numbers of children. Students attending normal school education are entitled to special additional courses to study their minority language and culture. This instruction is recognized and the certificate achieved entitles students to credits to assist them to enter higher education. Extra-school courses called “Sunday schools” also constitute a special form of minority language education organized by national minority self-governments, with financing from the Ministry of Education. 26. Abuses of the system of minority self-government have been recorded, including cases where non-minority individuals have acquired positions within, or actually established, minority self-governments for financial and political gain, in what has been termed “ethno-business”. Amendments to the 1993 Act on National and Ethnic Minorities, requiring registration of persons belonging to minorities in order to vote and stand for election to minority self-governments, aim to address such problems, although complaints continue to be raised by minorities. Amendments also allow minority self-governments to take over certain institutions, including schools, with a view to enhancing their ability to fulfil minority language teaching requirements. 27. Anti-Semitism is considered by some observers to have been a consistent feature of Hungarian public life in recent years, and part of political discourses of the Hungarian right, sometimes in coded, although sometimes in explicit form. However, by comparison with the Roma, for example, accusations of widespread hostility against Jews have not been seen to result