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Dr. János Nagy Born on 17 April 1956 in Budapest |
| Occupation | |
| Customs Officer, Rank of Major General (Commissioner) | |
| Place of work | |
| Directorate General of the Hungarian Customs and Finance Guard (DG of HCFG) | |
| Marital Status | |
| Married, 2 children. | |
| Studies | |
| University of Economics in Budapest Lóránd Eötvös University of Sciences, Faculty of Law Professional advanced customs courses organised by the Hungarian Customs and Finance Guard US Customs Service – mid-level management training Austrian Ministry of Finance – EFTA Course Canada Customs and Revenue Agency – Diagnostic Study Facilitators’ Training Course |
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| Professional Experience | |
| 1980-1985: executive officer at the Department for Legal and International Affairs (Directorate General of HCFG) 1985-1989: Head of International Division (DG of HCFG) 1989-1991: Deputy Head of Department for Legal and International Affairs (DG of HCFG) September – December 1991: Head of International Department (DG of HCFG) January 1992 – December 1996: Deputy Commissioner (HCFG) 1 January 1997 – 31 December 2001: Deputy Director at the Secretariat of the World Customs Organisation, where responsible for: WCO Customs Reform and Modernisation Programme WCO Anti-Corruption Programme Training and technical assistance to member states April 2002 – 31 March 2003 – Head of the OLAF Hungarian Coordination Bureau and (from January 2003) Head of the Financial Control Department, Ministry of Finance As of 1 April 2003: Commissioner of the HCFG |
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| International experience | |
| In 2005 he was elected as WCO Council Vice-chair for the WCO Europe Region. His mandate was extended for another year in June 2006.
As a Hungarian representative in the WCO Council and the Policy Commission, and as the officer responsible for the accession of Hungary to international agreements adopted by the WCO, he represented Hungary and the Hungarian customs administration in the World Customs Organisation in many issues and in executing numerous tasks. He was the Deputy Director of the WCO from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2001. He represented the HCFG in the EU-accession process and in the work of the Inter-Ministerial Committee for PHARE Support and the Inter-Ministerial Committee for European Integration. He initiated and in 1996 executed the accession of 4 Visegrád countries to the common customs transit system of the EU and EFTA. He represented Hungary at numerous UN events, among others at the meetings of the International Drug Control Board in Vienna, the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs and the Heads of European Customs Investigation Services; as Chairperson at the first TIR Revision Conference and as first deputy chairperson at the UN Symposium on Drug Detector Dogs. He was a member of the Hungarian delegation at the discussions for concluding the European Free Trade Agreement with the EU, the Free Trade Agreement with the EFTA and the Central European Free Trade Agreement. |
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| Education, scientific activity and publications | |
| He headed several international and regional courses, seminars and diagnostic studies at home and abroad. Between 1982 and 1989 he was a chief organiser of the basic training courses in drug detection for Hungarian law enforcement organisations supported by US Customs Service and DEA and of the PHARE customs training course for assisting the preparation for the EU membership from 1992.
Customs officers from more than 70 countries took part in the modernization; anti-corruption and training courses organised and carried out by him abroad, mostly under the auspices of the WCO. The professional fields he has mainly dealt with are as follows: customs reform and modernization, anti-corruption measures, assessment of development needs; being in charge of such programmes he worked in – among others – in Belgium, Canada, the USA, Switzerland, Lesotho, St. Lucia, Vietnam, Japan and Egypt. He was a founding member and First Secretary of the Financial Section in the Economic Scientific Society. He is a member of the Presidium of the Society and Member of the Society for Hungarian Foreign Policy. Between 1994 and 1996 he was a member of the Law Enforcement Section of the Society for Military Sciences. He was an invited speaker at the 24th World Conference of Public Administration Sciences organised by the International Institution for Public Administration Sciences held in June 2000 at the Bologna University. He is Vice-Chairperson of the Hungarian Society of Economic and Financial Controllers as from 2003. He is an honorary associate professor at the Police Academy, Budapest, and the Károly Róbert College in Gyöngyös, the College of Nyíregyháza and the Budapest College of Economy. |
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| Publications | |
| Numerous editions of “Actual Financial Legal Provisions” Book on “The rules of origin laid down in the European Agreement” Articles published among others in the WCO News, the Asia/Pacific Customs News and in Hungarian newspapers |
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