The government has established the National Transport Authority acting from the 1^st of January 2007 under the supervision of the Ministry responsible for Transport as the legal successor to the General Inspectorate of Transport, the Central Inspectorate of Transport, the Local Transport Inspectorates in the counties and the Civil Aviation Authority for carrying out authorizational tasks in the fields of road, railway, water and air transport. The Military Aviation Authority was integrated into the NTA on the 1st of July 2007. From the 1st of July 2008 the Hungarian Rail Office' tasks are also supplied by the National Transport Authority.

The National transport Authority is a separately managing, central budget organization.

The general activity of the Authority is general public administration, it carries out the tasks prescribed by law on first and second instance:

• Road Transport authorizational tasks
• Air Transport authorizational tasks
• Railway Transport authorizational tasks
• Water Transport authorizational tasks
• Other tasks.

The main bodies of the National Transport Authority are the Central Office, the First Instance Territorial Directorate General and the Strategical and Methodological Directorate. The president of the National Transport Authority is the leader of the Central Office.

Territorial bodies without legal entities are the Regional Directorates, the Directorate of High Priority Affairs, the Directorate for Psychological Testing of Drivers and the Directorate for Aviation. The Central Office, the Directorate of High Priority Affairs, the Directorate for Psychological Testing of Drivers and the Directorate for Aviation has competency at national level.

The competency of the Regional Directorates is defined in the organizational and operational rules published by the ministerial decree 3/2008. (VI.30.) of the Ministry of Transport, Telecommunication and Energy.

Regarding the decisions made by the regional bodies the competent second instance authority is the Central Office.