Subsections (3)-(5) of section 148 of the Act CLXXIX of 2011 on the Rights of National Minorities shall be replaced by the following provision:

„(3) If a national minority other than those listed in Appendix No. 1 wishes to certify that they meet the relevant conditions, minimum one thousand electors declaring themselves as belonging to the national minority concerned and having the right to vote at the election of municipal representatives and mayors and forming part of that national minority may initiate that the national minority be declared an ethnic group native to Hungary. During the procedure, provisions of the Act on Initiating Referendums, the European Citizens’ Initiative and Referendum Procedure relating to the initiation of national referendums shall apply with the exceptions mentioned in subsections (4) and (5).

(4) The above initiative may be organised by electors who may be elected at the election of municipal representatives and mayors.

(5) In the course of its procedure, the National Election Commission shall seek the opinion of the president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences with respect to the existence or not of the statutory conditions.”